Department of Intramural-Recreational Sports 2014-15 Annual Report
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Assessment For the year we completed 27 assessment projects that were included on our annual Master Plan. Now that we have been in the SRC for a period of time, our assessment focus is moving from decision making (i.e. equipment selection etc.) and now into use and the impact on retention and recruitment we have. Every program area was looked at in some fashion during the year. Review Learfield status on a regular basis John Smith meets with Lisa Turner on a regular basis to insure compliance and discuss future sponsorship opportunities. Select and hire Department Assistants Department Assistants are regular employees of the University only they are 80% FTE. We will have to go through the regular hiring process to add these positions to our staff. We have DA openings in the fitness and HSC Fitness Center areas to hire this year. We hired two new Department Assistant positions this year. We followed all University hiring protocols and conducted thorough screening and interview processes during their hiring. Critical Thinking Assessment Project This will be a department-wide project to measure the impact and recognition of our Fundamental and Powerful concept statements. We have taken our statements and the Critical Thinking Traits that support them and developed a rubric. We will release the rubric to every program area at different times of the year. Our statements could also be viewed as our core value statements. We developed a rubric using intellectual traits from the Paul/Elder critical thinking framework to collect from different areas of our program. We had 649 valid responses. The results were very encouraging as they indicated a high level of awareness and agreement with the intellectual traits we associate with the program. Tool Structure The tool was written to gauge the level of identification between students and our five “fundamental and powerful concepts” per the Critical Thinking framework. For each of the five statements, students were given four possible responses and asked to pick the one response they felt most described themselves. The four responses were structured in such a way that the responses increased in agreement with critical thinking traits. For example, choosing the second response would be considered a “stronger” response than the first or the third would be a stronger indication of critical thinking traits than the second. Responses of the third or fourth option would indicate a desired level of awareness and agreement of critical thinking. Responses were totaled by both program area and overall. Overall Observations 72% of all participants choose a response of 3 or 4. This shows that our participants are more aware of critical thinking and the traits that support our fundamental and powerful concepts than we would have anticipated. With only a few minor differences, it was very surprising to see the responses be so close to each other when compared to different program areas. The strong response to the “win with dignity, lose with respect” question is very encouraging. It shows the carryover of some things like respect and accountability into competitive situations whether those are organized IM events or informal games. Because these aren’t things we talk about and directly promote to most of our participants (except mgrs. Meetings, council, etc.) we can take some satisfaction understanding participants are picking up many of these traits (qualities) from actual participation. Group Fitness Showed a very high level of agreement with the “Win with class, lose with dignity” statement. 62 responses in the 4th option out of 94 total. You wouldn’t think that this response rate would be so high in a non-competitive, individual activity setting. Group fitness is very strong in the personal accountability question with 90 of the 99 responders choosing either the 3rd or 4th answer. The program area also scores high in “respect” with 84 of the 99 responders choosing the 3rd or 4th option. We believe this comes from the cooperation in many fitness activities such as working in on a piece of equipment, sharing floor space in yoga, etc. Informal Recreation We kept three separate totals for the informal program, an SRC AM and a SRC PM, as well as a separate HSC Fitness Center total. SRC Results We are surprised that the results from the different shifts are so similar. We really expected the PM to be much lower in a couple areas just from infusion of probable competitive intramural participants in that group. Directly across the board, the responses to the statements are very close to each other for both shifts. The statement relating to the pursuit of the common goal gets the lowest response to any of the questions, probably because most of our program areas, and largest areas, are individual based such as informal recreation and group fitness. 72% of our total responses in the informal area were either the 3 or 4 responses. Higher than we would have anticipated before the tool was released. The most surprising total to us was the PM responses to the “win with class” question given we have a lot of IM participants in the evening and we don’t know who is filling out the survey when they enter. The statement had the most people of any choose response 4, 93 of 166 and 113 of the 166 combining response 3 and 4.
78% of all responses from HSC participants were in the 3 or 4 response categories. Our speculation is this is due to the advanced level of education combined with a certain core level of respect/service for individuals connected to their area of study coupled with the fact that there is no team or competitive activities at the center. Intramural Responses We were surprised, one good, one disappointing, with responses from this group. We expected the “pursuit of the common goal” responses to be much higher in the 3,4 area because of the team/organization format of the structured IM program. Less than half (47%) answered with a response of a 3 or 4. We expected the “competition” question to be much lower than it was. Although the responses were exactly divided between the 1 and 2 responses compared to the 3 and 4, we still expected the 1 and 2s to be greater than they were. Sport Club Responses 83% of all responses from the sport clubs were in the 3 or 4 groups, the highest of any single program area. We expected the “competition” question to be much lower with this group as a number of our programs are very competitive in nature, but were surprised to see the higher recognition of critical thinking traits even in this category. Again, we would have expected a higher rate of strong responses from the “pursuit of the common goal” question, especially from a program area like the clubs which are by definition, made up of people that share a common interest. SRC One Year Statistical Study When the SRC reaches its one year anniversary, we want to do a complete statistical analysis of the center. We will want to pull total visits, distinct IDs and other user information that we are able to capture. This will come from the CSI system and will require us to become proficient at another one of the modules available through that platform. This study was compiled by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning on March 20, 2015 with utilization data provided by the Department of Intramural and Recreational Sports. The utilization data were collected upon each visit a student made to either the new Student Recreation Center or the HSC fitness center by the student having their ID card swiped into a scanning system. To be included in the analysis, students must have used either the HSC Fitness Center or the Student Recreation Center an average of one visit per week during the time period from October 28, 2013 to October 27, 2014. That time period represents the first year of operation for the new Student Recreation Center. There were 6,055 students who met the criteria. Those students are referred to as “regular” users in the observations below. There were 14,425 unique student users at the SRC plus an additional 1,124 students who used the HSC Fitness Center but did not use the SRC, for a total of 15,549 unique student users. (2,812 students used both the SRC and HSC Fitness Center.) This represents approximately 70% of all students at the University of Louisville. 58.7% of regular users had a grade point average of 3.0 or higher. (30.2% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher and 28.5% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 to 3.49) 78.5% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average above a 2.5. (19.8% of regular users had a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 to 2.99) 73% of all visits were made by undergraduate students under the age of 24. The majority of utilization is by females. 61% of all regular users who utilized the facilities were female. Females accounted for 68% of all visits by regular users. The difference between the number of females (61%) and the number of visits made by females (68%) was the largest of any category meaning females are not only the largest group of users, but also have a higher rate of utilization. While 17% of all undergraduates live on campus in either University dorms or affiliated housing, undergraduates living on campus comprised 40% of all undergraduate students utilizing the facilities and 38% of the total undergraduate visits. 17% of all visits by regular users were made by members of the Greek community. 25.7% of all regular users were minority students. 12.9% of all regular users were African American Continue to document monthly facility inspections Thorough monthly inspections of every facility are an important piece of our risk management plan. The inspections need to include every piece of weight and cardiovascular equipment as well as all other pertinent equipment. The inspections must be in writing so we are able to provide documentation regarding what was checked, when it was checked and what action was taken to correct any problems. All inspections are to be sent to John Smith for storage and review. Both facilities are inspected monthly and results documented by John Smith. The SRC has a system loaded on an iPad that allows our fitness staff (DAs and above) to complete the inspections more efficiently. Continue informal focus group With the advent of the new SRC, the scope and makeup of this group is going to change. The students on our panel graduated last year so they would have been replaced this year anyway. The faculty, staff and alumni members of this group will all need to be members of the SRC. Our focus group for the SRC is now forming. We are also looking to implement one for the HSC Fitness Center as well. Select new cardio equipment for the HSC Fitness Center All of the cardio equipment at the HSC is either out of warranty or within a couple months of being so. We are starting to make numerous repairs to the equipment and have squeezed all the life out of most of the machines as possible. We want to replace the cardio equipment of the center to better serve our clientele on that campus and give them the same type of experience as members of the new SRC receive. We selected new equipment for the HSC Fitness Center last summer. The process was aided by the fact that we already have such a wide variety of new equipment in the SRC, we already had an idea of what our users preferred and how well the different pieces performed. We installed 27 new pieces using this information as a guide to the model and number of pieces to be purchased. Investigate the installation of REACH at the HSC Fitness Center We would like to add a REACH station at the HSC Fitness Center to promote hours of operation, classes, upcoming events on both campuses etc. We have a great location for one at the entrance ramp of the center where it would get great visibility. Tim and Rusty could both develop announcements for the system. The use of a digital promotion system is something that has been missed at the HSC for a number of years that could have great benefits for the department. We are installing a REACH system for the HSC this July. Continue web statistics study We are now utilizing Google Analytics to track hits, page visits and duration of visits. A pageview is a record of the individual pages someone visited while in our total site. Those records will help us shape the look, feel and function of our page in the future. We have found that the IM Leagues program drives a lot of our traffic. Our web page continues to be very active and is a great outreach tool to potential students. It is always somewhat surprising to hear how many new students at orientation sessions tell us they are already familiar with our program because of our web page. Document the installation of critical updates and virus protection installations We changed our machine to do updates automatically which means we no longer maintain a record of the updates. Previously, when updates were released John and David R. would manually come around to each machine in the office to complete the updates. Having them done automatically is safer for the department as it protects the machines during the time that John and David would have been coming around to perform the updates. The important thing is that we did not lose a machine to a virus or preventable problem during the year. We have all of our machines set for automatic updates so we no longer track the actual number of updates etc. that we perform. When we did those manually we had an actual count. Continue Global Viewer Global Viewer is a program that will enable us to control the tuning of all TVs and monitors in the SRC from a desktop computer. John, David Hatfield and David Rice will have administration rights to the system. Through the system, all of the TVs in the SRC can be controlled from a person’s desktop pc. This includes having the sets come on at a specified time and go off at a specified time so the facility manager does not have to go around the entire facility making sure they in an appropriate setting at any given time. We continue to utilize the Global Viewer system provided with the opening of the SRC. It is a decent system but is not doing everything we wanted it to and it still requires a daily inspection of the entire facility to insure that all monitors are on the correct channels and functioning properly. Many times the default station will change on the 16 dedicated monitors for the REACH system. Since the system only has a power button to hit, if night custodial turns a set on or off it will be reversed when the system “hits” it again at opening or closing. Continue to evaluate needs for SRC instructor staff Keeping our classes current and making sure we are knowledgeable about new fitness trends will require us to continually evaluate the need both for numbers of instructors but also types of instructors. The new class format of being free and not fee based will no doubt have ramifications in our ability to stay current with the fitness industry. Debby has tracked attendance numbers of different class types. Schedules for the summer and fall are being developed according to the popularity of the classes as much as possible. The availability of instructors is the main determining factor in what classes are offered.
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