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Winter Issue 2019 Volume 12, No. 1 www.americankinesiology.org

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  AKA Awards First Inclusive Excellence Award
AKA Awards First Inclusive Excellence Award. . . . . . . 1

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Required Physical Activity in Schools - A Good Idea? . . 2
Physical Activity as a General Education Requirement
he American Kinesiology Association
at the University Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 (AKA) believes that inclusive excellence
National Biomechanics Day – Here Again . . . . . . . . 6 exemplifies an organization’s commit-
Course Focuses on African-American Sport . . . . . . . 7 ment to efforts that promote both diversity
Commute Misconceptions Could Keep People and inclusion with the goal of creating a
From Being Active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 working and learning environment that
President’s Column
encourages varied perspectives and an
AKA Highlights and the Year Ahead . . . . . . . . . . 11 open exchange of ideas in an unbiased
and non-prejudicial way. AKA recognizes
Past-President’s Report academic units that exemplify the core
AKA Workshop Provides a Cornucopia of Ideas principles of inclusive excellence with its
Jason Carter, President; Matthew T. Mahar, Director,
and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Inclusive Excellence Award. This award School of Exercise and Nutritional Science; Jared
ISU Provides SMART Orthopedic Clinic . . . . . . . . . 15 Continue on Page 2 Russell, Chair, Diversity Committee
Kinesiology Review Has a New Editor . . . . . . . . . 18
Simply Standing At Work May Not Be Enough . . . . . 20

Executive Director’s Column

2020 AKA Workshop in Florida
AKA: Moving Ahead Strategically . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The American Kinesiology Association will
hold its 13th annual leadership workshop
Sport History Suffers a Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 on January 23-25, 2020 in Tampa, FL.
AKA Leadership Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
The workshop brings together over 100
Editor’s One Cent’s Worth kinesiology leaders, administrators,
AKA Workshop Warms My Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 and faculty who are committed to
advancing our discipline as a unified
Short Shots field of study. The workshop provides a
Brits Gets Kids Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 unique opportunity to network with others
Kinesiology Gets Mentioned on the Today Show . . . . 25
What Are You Doing in the Next Seven Days . . . . . . 28
engaged in university administration and
with those who are interested in increasing
their leadership knowledge and skills for
effective administration of kinesiology
departments. The theme of the workshop
will be announced shortly.
http://www.americankinesiology.org/Sub-
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is presented annually to the kinesiology
academic unit that promotes, develops,
and sustains a commitment to diversity and
inclusion through its teaching, research,
and/or service programs.
AKA is pleased to announce the inaugural
recipient of the AKA Inclusive Excellence
Award. At our 2019 Annual Leadership
Workshop in Phoenix, AZ, the School of Exer-
cise and Nutritional Sciences (ENS) at San
Diego State University (SDSU) received this
award. Dr. Matt Mahar, Director, accepted
the award for the faculty and students of
the School of ENS.
The School of ENS at SDSU demon-
strates its commitment to diversity and
inclusion through multiple efforts to reach
underserved individuals. For example, the
Adaptive Fitness Clinic serves community
members with physical and intellectual
disabilities and provides transformational
learning experiences for students. The San
Diego State University Adapted Athletics
program serves people on the high function-
ing end of the different ability continuum.
The School of ENS also administers the
Thomas L. McKenzie Student Research
Grant program, which provides funds to
students who conduct research with faculty
on physical activity and health in underrep-
resented minorities. Numerous faculty from
the School of ENS have been recognized
for academic and service commitments
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to diversity and inclusion, ranging from Exercise and Nutritional Sciences can make
a Public Health Champion award to NIH an important contribution to the culture on
and USDA research grants that support our campus by expanding the understand-
work on health disparities and encourage ing of diversity, so that when people con-
underrepresented minority student involve- sider diversity they consciously consider
ment in research. The School of ENS is diversity of physical abilities, in addition to
developing a Student Diversity Task Force other types of diversity.”
to elicit diverse student perspectives about Congratulations to the School of Exercise
academic, physical activity, and health and Nutritional Sciences at San Diego State
issues. School Director Matt Mahar stated, University as the inaugural recipient of the
“Diversity and inclusion are important at AKA Inclusive Excellence Award.
San Diego State University. The School of
Call for Nomination for Inclusive Excellence Award
The American Kinesiology Association (AKA) invites you to submit nominations
for the 2nd annual AKA Inclusive Excellence Award. AKA believes that inclusive
excellence exemplifies an organization’s commitment to promote both diversity
and inclusion with the goal of creating a working and learning environment that
encourages varied perspectives and an open exchange of ideas in an unbiased
and non-prejudicial way. Specifically, nominated programs must provide evidence
of strategic, comprehensive, and sustained efforts to infuse diversity and inclusion
efforts into the central functions of respective academic unit (e.g., recruitment
and retention efforts, student support services, hiring processes, administrative
structure, curriculum innovation, etc.).
The deadline for 2019 nominations is April 15th, 2019
(5 p.m., Central Standard Time).
The award recipient will be notified by August 1st, 2019. Additional information
about the award and a link to the nomination form can be found here.
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Required Physical Activity in Schools - A Good Idea?
By Penny McCullagh, Ph.D., KT Editor
R equiring physical activity for college
students? An interesting question indeed.
What about requiring it in elementary and
high schools? It is pretty well known that
physical activity is good for you. In fact, you
would be hard pressed to find evidence
to the contrary.
But if we know physical activity is ben-
eficial, would it not be beneficial to include
it in our school curriculum like other sub-
jects such as math, science, history, and
language arts? The answer is apparently
NOT! According to data amassed by SHAPE
(Society of Health and Physical Educators)
(https://www.shapeamerica.org//advocacy/
son/upload/shape-of-the-nation-infographic1.
pdf) 74 % of states require students to
take physical education from elementary
through high school BUT:
•• 28 states allow waivers
•• Only 22 states allot a specific time
requirement
•• Only 10 states designate specific
funding for professional development
for physical education
•• Only 6 states require physical educa-
tion in every grade
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•• Only 3 states meet the recommended
time to meet national standards
The data for encouraging physical activ-
ity participation in colleges is no better.
Despite calls by national organizations
such as SHAPE America, the National
Physical Activity Plan, and ACSM’s Exercise
is Medicine on Campus campaign, fewer
than 40% of colleges in the USA require
students to take any type of physical activity
as a graduation requirement and this is less
than in earlier years (Cardinal, Sorensen,
& Cardinal, 2012).
Within the psychological literature it is
well known that individuals who have free
choice are more intrinsically motivated. Thus
it could be that requiring students to take
physical activity classes as a requirement
might decrease intrinsic motivation. On the
other hand, it might be that exposing students
to new activities may provide a challenge
that could change their perceptions and
motivation in the future to engage in activity.
In an attempt to provide some data on this
issue, Kim and Cardinal (2018) measured
motivation (amotivation, extrinsic regulation,
and intrinsic motivation), physical activity
competence and participation levels, and how
a policy regarding physical activity affects
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motivation and behavior in undergraduate
students. A total of 953 students from two
universities participated in the study. One
university had a required physical activity
requirement and the other university did not.
The authors did recognize some limita-
tions in their study, but nonetheless, showed
that students who were required to take
physical activity classes were less motivated
to be active but as they moved through
their college years from freshman to senior
they became more motivated. If the activity
classes are elective, they tend to draw on
students who are already motivated.
They did suggest that having physical
activity as a requirement allows access by
all individuals and thus exposes everyone
to the benefits of physical activity.
I wanted to follow up with the authors of
the Kim and Cardinal paper and was able to
communicate with Brad Cardinal. I asked him
a few questions and he provided responses.
Tell us about the physical activity
program at your university. Are classes
required or elective? If required did you
personally work on classes achieving
this status and do you have any advice
to others who are trying to do so?
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Oregon State University has a three credit
hour graduation requirement in the area
of “Fitness” that the students must take. To
fulfill the requirement the students take a two
hour lecture class (i.e., Lifetime Fitness for
Health; HHS 231) where they learn behavioral
strategies, and they also take one physical
activity class (of their own choosing) where
they can apply the knowledge and skills
that have been learned. This is part of the
university’s general education curriculum,
which is called the Baccalaureate Core
(Bacc Core) at Oregon State University.
The overarching aim of the requirement is
to provide essential skills and strategies
aimed at promoting lifelong health and
wellness, which is one of the key signature
research areas of the university.
Oregon State had a physical educa-
tion requirement long before I arrived. It
evolved over the years, and it continues
to evolve to this day. During my time at
Oregon State, I have worked in various
ways to help maintain and strengthen the
requirement. This includes serving on the
Bacc Core Committee, ad-hoc committees
that have looked at revising/revamping
the Bacc Core, conducting research on
and about the requirement, contributing to
reports about the requirement, and serving
as a Faculty Senator and speaking in favor
of retaining the requirement. All of this has
proven very helpful.
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Furthermore, one of Oregon State’s
three “Signature Areas of Distinction” is
“Improving Human Health and Wellness.”
There is a compelling link between the
requirement and this signature area of
distinction.
We have a dedicated cadre of commit-
ted and talented people at the university
that work hard to maintain the quality and
reputation of the requirement. None of this
happened by accident. It has been very
intentional.
What do you see as a major roadblock
as to why universities do not require
physical activity?
Required courses of various types have
been challenged, but perhaps none so
much as those in physical activity educa-
tion and health. Over the years our field
has acquired a substantial amount of data
showing the value of the courses. Yet, the
challenges continue. Some even come
from within our own academic units! (I dis-
cussed this in a fairly recent Quest article
cited below.)
Some unique secular changes are
occurring that also are creating challenges,
including posh campus recreation centers
and a shifting emphasis toward career
education. Demonstrating how the require-
ment uniquely helps the institution fulfill its
mission is paramount, as is demonstrating
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how it helps prepare students for life. The
more connected the program and associ-
ated requirement is, the better. For example,
among other things, our requirement is
seen as contributing to first-year retention
rates/student success, international student
inclusion and success, and interdisciplin-
ary studies (e.g., swimming and SCUBA
classes contribute to our oceanography
program). Quality instruction, well-kept and
modern equipment and facilities, and strong
leadership that truly “gets it” is most helpful.
Any other comments.
Our recent study demonstrated the value
of the requirement in terms of reach. Having
the requirement reaches everyone, whereas
in the elective format it simply does not.
The required approach is akin to a public
health approach where everybody can
obtain the benefits.
Cardinal,B.J. (2017) Quality College and University Instruc-
tional Physical Activity Programs Contribute to Mens Sana
in Corpore Sano, “The Good Life,” and Healthy Societies,
Quest, 69:4, 531-541 DOI: 10.1080/00336297.2017.1320295
Cardinal, B. J., Sorensen, S. D., & Cardinal, M. K. (2012).
Historical perspective and current status of the physical
education graduation requirement at American 4-Year col-
leges and universities. Research Quarterly for Exercise and
Sport, 83, 503-512. DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2012.10599139
Kim, M. S., & Cardinal, B. J. (2018). Differences in university
students’ motivation between a required and an elective
physical activity education policy. Journal of American
College Health, DOI: 10.1089/07448481.2018.1469501
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Physical Activity as a General Education Requirement at the University Level
By Nancy Williams, Head of Kinesiology Penn State University
T he Kinesiology Physical Activity Pro-
gram (KPAP) at Penn State University
is an instructional program designed to
introduce students to the immediate and
lifelong benefits of regular physical activity.
The program is aimed at undergraduate
students who are fulfilling baccalaureate
degree requirements. Our courses help
to fulfill a three credit general education
requirement in the domain of general health
and wellness.
It is the mission of the program to con-
tribute to the development of the total
being by providing learning experiences
in physical activity and concepts regard-
ing physical activity, fitness, and wellness.
We provide 15-20 activity classes each
semester including summer that address
fitness and wellness, lifelong skills, and
mind- body issues. Overall, the classes
generate approximately 12,000 student
credit hours and enroll approximately 950
students per year, including summer. There
are 6-7 full time instructors and 32 part
time instructors that teach in the program.
A select group of KPAP classes are tied
into the Center for Fitness and Wellness
(CFW) such that students undergo fitness
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and wellness testing that
includes blood biomark-
ers and body composition
testing performed in the
CFW. This testing occurs
at the beginning and end
of the semester, and as
such serves to document
improvements that occur
as fitness improves with the
participation in the KPAP
class. Modest course fees
help to support the con-
sumables used and the
staffing of the CFW. Undergraduate interns get hands-on experience is by taking the
learn how to perform the fitness testing fitness testing and EIM messaging on the
and get hands-on experience with the high road through our “Mobile EIM” program of
throughput of student clients in the CFW. outreach and student engagement. The
Our physical activity program is also activities of the CFW and the tie-in with
linked to our participation in the American the KPAP program have benefited from
College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) initiative the branding offered through EIM in that
of Exercise is Medicine (EIM). The planning these activities are billed as sustainable
and execution of EIM activities includes a and yearlong EIM-related efforts. Research
variety of campus-wide physical activity faculty have also benefited from the high
promoting events, and includes the students throughput of fitness and wellness testing
in the Kinesiology Club and students in key performed in the CFW by publishing data
EIM-related Kinesiology classes, along with related to student health.
faculty and staff. An additional way students
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National Biomechanics Day – Here Again
By Paul DeVita, Department of Kinesiology, East Carolina University
National Biomechanics Day (NBD) seeks to increase aware-
ness of Biomechanics among high school students and
teachers. Through increased awareness among young
people we will expand the many valuable contributions
Biomechanics already makes to human society. These
contributions include substantial impacts in medicine and
rehabilitation, human performance, man-machine interfaces
such as prosthetics, and many more fields. Biomechan-
ics also serves as the perfect vehicle for STEM education
because it embodies Science Technology, Engineering, and
Math and it is fun for kids. Through our effort, energy, and
enthusiasm we will make Biomechanics the breakthrough
science of the 21st century.
NBD has grown from a U.S. based initiative in 2016 to
a worldwide Biomechanics movement in 2018! We have
demonstrated our viability by growing from 2,000+ high
school students in 2016 to over 11,000 students this past
April. In total, we have introduced Biomechanics to 20,000+
young people and 800+ teachers. Laboratories throughout
the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, Malaysia,
England, Portugal, and a host of other countries provided
hands-on, interactive Biomechanics demonstrations produc-
ing tremendous excitement about Biomechanics among the
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high school students and teachers, as documented by the
photographs on Instagram:
NBD on Instagram
NBD 2019 will be April 10, and based on the continued
growth of NBD, we expect to greatly increase the number
of participating Biomechanics Laboratories and high school
participants. NBD is also inclusive of all people and we
actively promote Biomechanics to underserved populations
in the U.S. and around the world. We have an outstanding
record in diversity with over 50% of the participants being
female and African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and Asian
populations totaling 50% of all participants.
We have received support from many international organi-
zations and commercial enterprises including the American,
International, Brazilian, and Canadian Societies of Biome-
chanics, Nike, Delsys, VICON/IMeasureU, and of course
AMTI, to name a few. Our full sponsor list is available Here.
Please explore the rest of our website and please consider
participating in NBD 2019.
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Course Focuses on African-American Sport
By Penny McCullagh, Ph.D., KT Editor
T he Sport and Exercise Psychology
program at West Virginia University,
offers numerous classes that range from
professional issues to psychological per-
spectives, to sports in American society.
One class taught by Dana Brooks, Dean
and Professor of the College of Physical
Activity and Sport Sciences focuses on
the history and sociocultural contributions
to sports in America, specifically historical
figures who are African-American. During
this past year Brooks invited a panel of
five historical African-American pioneers
to attend his November 13, 2018 African-
Americans in Sports (SEP 373) course.
Among those five historical African-Amer-
icans were, Shirley Robinson, Charles C.
Blue, Jr., Cathy Parsons, John Mallory,
and Charlene Marshall. The information
about the individuals was provided in a
press release.
Shirley Robinson, was the first African-
American athlete to participate in women’s
tennis at West Virginia University, joining the
team in 1981. Robinson currently works for
the office of the Provost as an Administra-
tive Assistant for Undergraduate Academic
Affairs. In addition, Shirley also serves on
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the West Virginia Staff Council
as the Advisory Council of
Classified Employees (ACCE)
Representative.
Morgantown native Charles
C. Blue, Jr. served in vari-
ous positions throughout
his 35-year career at WVU.
From 1971 to 1985, he worked
in Department of Human
Resources. In 1985, Blue
became the liaison to the Uni-
versity President for Black Stu-
dent Concerns, and because
of his dedication to the posi-
tion, he eventually joined the Photo supplied by Dana Brooks. From left to right: Charlene Marshall,
Division of Student Affairs to Charles C. Blue, Jr., Shirley Robinson, Dana Brooks
hold various positions with
Minority Affairs and the Center
for Black Culture and Research. Through- consultation with decision-making. During
out his tenure in the Center, he assisted in his time at WVU, Blue assisted in creating
developing and fostering a positive and a positive and supportive environment for
supportive environment for African and African-American students, faculty and staff.
African-American students, faculty, and Lastly, Morgantown native and mayor
staff. He spent his final years, 1998 - 2006, (1991-1998) Charlene Marshall joined the
at the Career Service Center, where he conversation. Marshall, was the first African-
advised and counseled students in career American woman to be mayor in West
development, placement, and individual Virginia. After serving as the mayor of West
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Virginia, she went on to serve more than
a decade in the West Virginia House of
Delegates. Marshall received her honorary
Doctor of Laws degree from West Virginia
University in 2015.
Other panelists who joined by phone,
included Cathy Parson and John Mallory.
Parson, who became the first woman to
be inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of
Fame in 1996. Cathy tallied 2,128 points
during her four-year career, Jerry West
(2,309) and Rod Hundly (2,061) are the only
WVU basketball players- male or female-
with more points. Parson was a three-time
Mountaineer MVP and was the first women
player to have her basketball jersey retired.
Currently, she is the head coach at Frostburg
State. Parson became the first woman to
be inducted into the WVU Sports Hall of
Fame in 1996.
John Mallory started the last three
games on the WVU 1965 squad. With only
three games experience he became an
All-Southern Conference first team and
Associate Press All-America honorable
mention defensive back his junior year.
He ranked among the nation’s best punt
returners—34 for 596 yards, a 17.5-yard
average and five touchdowns. John would
then go on to be drafted in the tenth round
by the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles, he played
in all 14 games his rookie season. The next
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year he was traded to Atlanta, where he
became the Falcons’ all-time punt return
leader. John was inducted into the West
Virginia University Hall of Fame in 2001,
he was also inducted into the School of
Physical Education Hall of Fame in 2004.
I asked Dr. Brooks a few questions about
the course.
Tell us a little more about this class.
I started teaching this course in 1991 and
it was named African-American Sport (SES
198). The African-American Sport course
provides a social-cultural and historical
overview of the contributions of and chal-
lenges faced by African-Americans (men
and women) in sport in America. Focus is
on the macro (patterns of behavior related
to large-scale social structures and pro-
cesses) and micro (behaviors we observe
in society, often readily observable in the
context of sport) level of sport analysis.
It appears as though the folks you had
on the panel this year were from West
Virginia roots. Is this always your focus?
One focus of the topic discussed in this
course is the Integration of Sport on the
WVU campus, and within the state of West
Virginia.
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Is this a grad or undergrad class and is
it required? What do you think students
take away from this class?
This course is an Undergraduate course
offered during the fall term with about
65 students enrolled each offering. This
course is a GEF 7 course (Global Studies
and Diversity) and the class enhances
student understanding and apprecia-
tion of diversity and inclusion within the
American sport culture. Students learn to
apply principality of critical thinking and
analysis to social and political events that
impacted the African American experience
throughout sports history.
Any other comments?
You can find more information on WVU
sports integration by going to https://sport-
sintegration.wvu.edu/
This website was developed in collabora-
tion with the African-Americans in Sport
(SEP 373) course over time. https://media.
cpass.wvu.edu/stories/2018/11/15/cpass-
class-hosts-historical-pioneers-panel
The program at West Virginia is a member
of the American Kinesiology Association.
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Commute Misconceptions Could Keep People From Being Active
By Patrick Wade, Staff Writer
A ctive transportation like walking or
bicycling to work or class is high on
the list of lifestyle changes a person can
make to lose weight, increase fitness and
improve mental health – not to mention the
environmental benefits. And yet, studies
show that less than four percent of people
in the United States do it. Researchers at
Penn State University (a member of the
American Kinesiology Association) may
have shed some light on why that might
be: Generally speaking, people are pretty
bad at estimating travel times when going
by bike or foot, and that can have a del-
eterious effect on whether they make the
choice to get out of the car and get active.
“People who don’t walk or bike to work
think it’s going to take a lot more time to walk
or bike,” said Melis-
sa Bopp, associate
professor of kinesi-
ology at Penn State
and one of the lead
researchers on the
team. That simple
fact, as well as some
other factors, can
Melissa Bopp
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keep a person from even
considering the option
of enjoying the health
benefits of active trans-
portation. Their findings
were published in the
journal Transportmetrica
A: Transport Science.
The study was
prompted when the
research team set out
to develop a program to
promote active travel on
the Penn State campus.
To begin, they wanted
to determine what were the factors that about active travel and how physically fit
were keeping people from walking or bik- they were, according to a Penn State news
ing to work and class. Travel time, they release. They were also asked about how
knew, is one of the most cited barriers to long they thought it would take to travel to
active travel, so part of the study focused campus by bike or foot. Then the actual
on whether their participants had accurate travel times were calculated using Google
knowledge about how long it might take to maps.
travel to work or class. They found that more than 90 percent
They recruited 252 Penn State students of faculty and staff misestimated how long
and 253 faculty and staff for the study it would take to travel to work, with almost
in fall 2014 and asked them about their all of them overestimating the amount of
methods of travel to campus, how they felt time it would take. Students were much
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better at estimating travel times, but still not
great. About 55 percent provided incorrect
walking times, and 43 percent were wrong
on travel times for bicycling. A calculation
was considered inaccurate if it under- or
over-estimated the travel time by 10 or
more minutes. Nearly all of the inaccurate
calculations were over-estimations. Aver-
age miscalculations were not provided in
the write-up.
Bopp said the students may have been
more accurate than faculty and staff because
they are the ones who are more likely to
be engaging in active travel. Along those
same lines, the faculty and staff members
who were walking or biking to work more
often were generally better at providing
accurate travel times.“On our campus, or
anywhere, students are more likely to live
closer to campus and more likely to be
active travelers,” Bopp said in an interview
with Kinesiology Today. If you’re regularly
engaging in that activity, she added, you will
have better information about travel times.
There were other factors involved, too. Age
and gender played a role, and Bopp said
self-efficacy in terms of a person’s confi-
dence in themselves to get to campus by
bike or foot played a role.
More practical matters had an effect. For
students, whether or not they had access to
a parking permit was tied to their ability to
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accurately predict active travel times. And
for faculty or staff, having a family could
play a role. “You can imagine with aging,
especially amongst faculty and staff we
included in our sample, even having kids
tended to decrease the likelihood of active
travel, the logistics of getting everyone
where they needed to go,” Bopp said.
All of this information informed another
project Bopp was working on, which was
developing an intervention to increase
active travel on the Penn State campus.
What came out of it was the Active Lions
campaign, with its name based on the
school’s mascot, the Nittany Lions.
The campaign included social media
efforts, a smartphone app and other mar-
keting efforts. One of the major goals was
to give students, faculty and staff accurate
information about active transportation and
travel times. For example, participants could
use the smartphone app to plan routes,
and the app calculated travel times and
distance for them.
Increasing campus community members’
confidence in their ability to get to work in
an active way was another objective. The
app provided a function for participants
to set goals and log trips, and the app
returned rewarding information about things
like calories burned and pounds of carbon
emissions saved. Bopp said the idea was
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to target those “modifiable factors,” like
having accurate information and boosting
confidence.
“That can be worked on,” Bopp said.
“You obviously can’t change age or gender
or the factor that they have children, but
you can certainly target someone’s confi-
dence.” The results were mixed. Based on
online surveys of different students, faculty
and staff in the periods before and after
the campaign, students had a noticeably
greater number of active trips after the cam-
paign concluded. They logged just over 64
percent of their trips in an active way after
the intervention versus 49 percent before.
The campaign seemed to have less of an
effect on faculty and staff, who responded
that about 8 percent of their trips were by
bike or foot before the campaign versus
just under 9 percent afterward.
Bopp, M., Sims, D., Matthews, S. A., Rovniak, L. S., Poole,
E., & Colgan, J. (2018). Development, Implementa-
tion, and Evaluation of Active Lions: A Campaign to
Promote Active Travel to a University Campus. Ameri-
can Journal of Health Promotion, 32(3), 536–545.
Sims, D., Matthews, S.A., Bopp, M., Rovniak, L., Poole, E.
(2018). Predicting discordance between perceived and
estimated walk and bike times among university faculty, staff,
and students. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 2018; 1.
Bohn, K. (2018). Misestimating travel times may stop
people from walking or biking to work. Retrieved Janu-
ary 13, 2019, here
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P resident ’ s C olumn
AKA Highlights and the Year Ahead
By Nancy I. Williams, PhD. Penn State University
I
t is my honor and
privilege to serve as
this year’s President
of the American Kine-
siology Association.
Having been a Board
member and regular
attendee of the AKA
Nancy Williams
Workshops since
2013, I am thrilled
to have the oppor-
tunity to help the organization continue
to expand and thrive. I want to offer my
sincere gratitude to our immediate past
presidents Jason Carter and Tom Templin,
and to the entire Executive Committee for
helping me to learn the ropes over the
last year in my role as President-Elect. A
special thanks to T. Gilmore Reeve, our
newly appointed Executive Director, Kim
Scott, our Business Manager, and Penny
McCullagh, KT Editor, for their outstanding
work and ideas to promote AKA and help
us continually mature as an organization.
I am looking forward to working with the
Executive Committee and the Board of
Directors over the next year to move sev-
eral initiatives forward.
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I want to first congratulate Jason Cater
on the outstanding job he did as President
this past year. Among many highlights
during this last year is the launching of
the AKA Leadership Institute. Thanks to
Jason and John Bartholomew (Board of
Directors) the Institute is off to a good start
with nine fellows, five mentors, and a full
slate of activities that will greatly benefit
our emerging leaders. The next call for
applications for fellows for this program
will be May 31, 2019. Moving along to
other highlights, this year’s 2019 workshop,
“Hiring, Evaluating, and Retaining Faculty
and Staff in Kinesiology” was a great suc-
cess and included new features such as
the “University President’s Fireside Chat”
with Dan Weeks (President, UNBC), and
John Dunn (Chancellor, SIU Carbondale),
a “State of the Association” session with Gil
Reeve, and our first ever award for “Inclusive
Excellence” (Matthew Mahar, San Diego
State University).
We have an exciting year coming up!
The health benefits of physical activity are
widely known. Kinesiology departments are
in a unique position to impact health and
wellness through our research, teaching,
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and outreach. Kinesiology enrollments are
still busting at the seams, and the impact
of our field is realized through our students’
success in an ever growing array of health-
related careers. Even in the face of large
enrollments, is important that we continue
to offer our undergraduate students high
quality, multidisciplinary exposure to the
study of physical activity and human move-
ment. Whether it is through classes in our
majors, general education, or experiential
learning, we are instilling in students the
value of physical activity from a variety of
perspectives. Through innovative research
and scholarship, we are the “go to” experts
for understanding human movement at all
levels of inquiry. As such, I am excited to
work with our Workshop Planning Committee
to develop next year’s theme of “Promot-
ing Physical Activity through Kinesiology
Teaching and Outreach: An Eye Toward
the Future”. With the goal of keeping Kine-
siology departments on the cutting edge,
we hope to take a closer look at the future
of physical education teacher training in
Kinesiology as well as innovative ways to
promote positive lifelong attitudes toward
physical activity through Kinesiology course
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P ast -P resident ’ s R eport
AKA Workshop Provides a Cornucopia of Ideas and Solutions
By Jason R. Carter, Ph.D., Michigan Tech University
O
verseeing the
2019 AKA Lead-
ership Workshop was
perhaps the most
significant privilege
I’ve had as a profes-
sional. I have been
attending AKA Lead-
ership Workshops
Jason Carter
since 2010. I remem-
ber walking away from that first meeting
in Dallas, TX thinking that I had found the
cornucopia of kinesiology administrative
creativity and ideas. Nearly a decade later,
my thoughts on the Workshop have not
changed—and it was a pleasure to be
able to “give back” in some small way
to the organization that I credit for many
of the creative strategies our program
at Michigan Tech has taken to establish
itself as one of the most innovative and
respected units on our campus.
This year’s topic of “hiring, evaluating,
and retaining kinesiology faculty” was both
important and timely. Each of our programs
struggle at times with all three of those key
issues, and it was exciting to hear so many
ideas. In an attempt to return back to our
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more interactive roots, we made an inten-
tional effort to have many more “interactive
sessions” that required roundtable conver-
sations and report outs. While we still need
to do the formal assessment of attendees,
preliminary feedback was extremely posi-
tive. I’ve always maintained that collectively,
the room is full of knowledge and creative
solutions that just need to be tapped, and
we saw plenty of that on display in Phoenix.
Here are a few highlights that I shared in
my concluding reflection—
•• Our initial interactive session led by
Terry Rizzo (California State Univer-
sity, San Bernardino), Penny McCul-
lagh (California State University,
East Bay), and Donna Pastore (Ohio
State University) got everyone talk-
ing about local strategies for “hiring,
evaluating, and retaining” faculty.
It set the stage for a strongly par-
ticipatory workshop where individu-
als were not bashful about sharing
ideas.
•• Janet Wigglesworth (James Madi-
son University) received the award
for greatest creativity and engage-
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ment with her breakout exercises
aimed at strategies for negotiating.
Using established literature that
will be highlighted more in a future
Kinesiology Review article, Janet
articulated the five styles of negotia-
tions – 1) avoiding, 2) competing, 3)
collaborating, 4) compromising, and
5) accommodating. Attendees all
objectively learned more about their
predominant style through an inter-
active assessment, and there were
plenty of laughs with the role-playing
negotiation exercise!
•• The President’s Fireside Chat was
a real pleasure as Nancy Williams
(AKA President-Elect; Penn State
University) interviewed President Dan
Weeks (University on Northern British
Columbia) and John Dunn (Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale) on
their thoughts on “hiring, evaluating,
and retaining” faculty. The engaging
and wide-ranging discussion includ-
ed doubling-down on efforts related
to recruiting and retaining diverse
faculty, concerns over the balance
between tenure/tenure-track faculty
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and non-tenure track instructional
faculty, post-tenure review, and keys
to retention. This session was record-
ed and will eventually be made avail-
able on the AKA website.
•• The third interactive session related
to evaluation of faculty, and allowed
attendees to share various strate-
gies. Session co-facilitators included
Gil Reeve (AKA Executive Direc-
tor), Mary Rudisill and Jared Russell
(Auburn University), and Phil Martin
(Iowa State University). The ses-
sion concluded with an interesting
and engaging presentation by Brad
Hatfield (University of Maryland) in
which he shared the “Maryland”
model that takes a highly transparent
and objective approach to annual
merit evaluation. Brad unbashfully
admitted that while it is “imperfect”,
it is advisory to the department chair
and provides a much appreciated
level of objectivity. There was great
discussion on this topic during the
Q&A session.
•• The second keynote by Michael Delp
(Florida State University) focused on
how we use data to make decisions
and seek resources. He focused
on not just local metrics, but also
regional and national metrics. There
was much discussion around the use
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of AcademicAnalytics, with a recog-
nition that we are all moving towards
more objective measures of evalu-
ation. The train is already moving,
and we all need to figure out how
we want to engage (and tell our own
story).
•• The fourth interactive session
focused on the role of implicit bias
in “hiring, evaluating, and retaining”
faculty, and challenged attendees to
acknowledge and better understand
implicit bias. The session, led by Jar-
ed Russell (Auburn University), was
consistent with AKA’s broader mis-
sion to support diverse and inclusive
environments for faculty, students,
and staff at our respective institu-
tions.
•• After four lively and engaging rota-
tions of roundtables focused on
mentoring, hiring practices, and aca-
demic bullying, the final interactive
session focused on faculty morale
led by Edward Hebert (Southeastern
Louisiana University). The session
include robust discussions on key
areas of satisfaction such as teach-
ing/mentoring, scholarships, and
autonomy.
The Workshop as a whole addressed com-
plex issues related to “hiring, evaluating,
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and retaining” faculty. There are various
strategies, and they must be based upon
local circumstances. The strategies taken
by a large R1 may not (likely will not) be
the same strategies that a small, private
university takes. However, the key is to
focus on innovation, creativity, and best
practice. Perhaps most importantly, we
all need to know when to change, which
is never easy. Each year this workshop
serves as a national nexus of thought
leaders willing to share what they do, and
challenge you to think about how you
can improve your own department. If you
weren’t able to attend, I encourage you
to read the Kinesiology Review articles
that will come out next November on the
various sessions… and more importantly,
mark your calendars for next year’s AKA
Leadership Workshop in Tampa, FL (Janu-
ary 23-25, 2020)!
Thank you for the opportunity to serve
as AKA President for 2018-19; it has been
the greatest professional honor of my life
to date.
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ISU Provides SMART Orthopedic Clinic

By Amy Rose, KT Staff Writer and Dr. Justin Stanek, Program Director of Athletic Training at ISU

T he Sports Medicine and Rehabilita-

tion Therapy (SMART) Clinic on the
campus of Illinois State University (ISU)
has been in operation since the fall of
2013. The on-campus rehab clinic pro-
vides advanced care for ISU students in
the areas of prevention, evaluation, and
rehabilitation of various athletic-related
orthopedic injuries. Prior to opening the
clinic, two staff athletic trainers (AT) from
university athletics provided services
through Student Health Services (SHS)
as part of a pilot program. Data collected
from the pilot program showed positive
outcomes from the patients treated, however,
at the time limited space and resources
existed within Student Health Services.
This, along with the time away from the
trainers’ normal duties, resulted in the
initial program being terminated.
In the fall of 2008, the idea for a thera-
peutic rehabilitation clinic was revisited as
part of the remodeling of McCormick Hall
on campus, which housed The School
of Kinesiology and Recreation. The idea
was to design the athletic training labora-
tory to not only serve the needs of faculty
and students in their coursework, but also
with the desire for this
facility to be used as an
orthopedic rehabilitation
clinic. More specifically,
the clinic was designed
to provide a unique set-
ting where clinicians,
researchers, and students
could work together to
offer ISU students an
affordable, on-campus
resource for orthopedic
related injuries. The open-
ing of the clinic required
the combined efforts of
numerous stakeholders
from across the university.
The clinic is housed in
a state-of-the-art facility. During the day, this owned or purchased for didactic instruc-
space and the attached classroom are used tion in the Commission on Accreditation
for instruction for both the undergraduate of Athletic Training Education (CAATE)
and graduate athletic training programs. It is program. The location of the clinic offers
equipped with numerous treatment tables, many opportunities for both research and
a private examination room, office, and all student education. Several faculty members
the necessary modalities, strengthening, have a research emphasis in the area of
and other rehabilitation materials com- orthopedics and the clinic offers access to
monly found in an athletic training facility. patients that may volunteer to participate
The majority of this equipment was already in future research projects. Additionally,
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graduate and undergraduate students may
develop research projects, independent
studies, or thesis/dissertation projects that
could utilize patient populations from the
clinic. The space is used for instruction
and lab space in the mornings and then
from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm it is available for
use as the SMART Clinic.
The clinic provides an additional clinical
education site for undergraduate athletic
training students, as well as a graduate
assistant (GA) position for the graduate
athletic training program. The GA is able
to develop leadership and mentoring skills
by becoming a preceptor for the under-
graduate athletic training program while
still improving his/her clinical skills. The
space offers undergraduate AT students an
opportunity to get experience in a unique
setting for athletic training with a focus on
rehabilitation and manual therapy.
The athletic trainers working in the clinic
practice under the
direction of the phy-
sicians at Student
Health Services
as required by the
Illinois State Prac-
tice Act. Patients
are referred to the
SMART clinic for
Chelsea Kuehner treatment and reha-
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bilitation of any orthopedic injury related
to physical activity by physicians at SHS.
The SMART clinic is staffed by two
licensed and certified athletic trainers (ATC).
The Director of the SMART Clinic, Chelsea
Kuehner, is an Instructional Assistant Pro-
fessor in the School of Kinesiology and
Recreation with specific teaching respon-
sibilities within the athletic training major.
The appointed graduate assistant has been
admitted into the ISU graduate athletic
training program. The GA is a two-year
appointment. The two staff members are
responsible for overseeing the day-to-day
operations of the clinic. Some of these duties
include patient care, scheduling, maintaining
accurate record keeping, communication
with SHS, inventory and ordering of sup-
plies, and tracking patient satisfaction and
outcomes. “It is a way that we can show
students what this profession is all about. We
really take pride in our facility. I have never
been at a University that offers this,” said
Kuehner. “It gives our students a chance
to see patients they may not see with the
typical population of athletes.”
Current Graduate Assistant Josh Wool-
ridge is the primary clinician and handles
the vast majority of the treatments. “When
I first started, it was intimidating, but once I
got used to it... it is really amazing,” he said.
Woolridge appreciates the level of freedom
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he is given regarding patient treatment
that other graduate students don’t usually
have. However, if he does encounter a
challenging situation, there are resources
and faculty close by to consult and offer
advice. He says this is a huge benefit of
having a campus ran clinic.
Woolridge also supervises two or three
undergraduate students completing their
clinical rotations at the SMART clinic each
semester. Colton Bowser worked at the
clinic last semester and enjoyed the oppor-
tunity to expand his knowledge outside of
the classroom. “I was doing patient care
from start to finish. There was a lot more
autonomy than my previous experiences,”
Bowser said. “Working with Josh taught me
a lot of techniques that were breezed over
in class and Chelsea is always available
for questions as well.”
Illinois State students who are referred
to the clinic by Student Health Services or
other physicians pay an affordable $10 per
visit at the clinic. “A lot of students come
to us because of cost and location,” said
Kuehner. “It is an extremely cheap alterna-
tive to other health options and provides
an opportunity to get help for things that
other facilities may not have the time to treat
them for.” Woolridge said he has worked
with patients who have been bothered by
an injury for years, but had never received
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treated before coming to the clinic. “We The SMART Clinic partners with Campus collared shirts for the staff athletic trainers.
can take the time to treat these kind of Recreation to advertise their services on Kuehner says she believes the success
problems at a reasonable price,” he said. the monitors placed throughout the facility. of the clinic has come from a lot of dedi-
According to Kuehner, the clinic also has Additional advertising includes a website cated individuals working together and also
a good relationship with the community (https://kinrec.illinoisstate.edu/services/ the clinic’s work with health care providers
health providers who are working with ISU smart/ ), flyers for Student Health Services, on campus and in the community to best
students they feel will benefit from services ads in the local student newspaper, and serve the needs of the student population.
at the clinic. Because the athletic training
program is affiliated with many local physi-
cal therapy clinics, the therapists have the
opportunity to recommend the services at
the SMART clinic if the number of approved
insurance benefits run out.
The work of the SMART Clinic benefits
greatly from the collaboration with several
entities on campus. The clinic not only
works closely with Student Health Services
through the Division of Student Affairs, but
also partners with the College of Applied
Science and Technology, School of Kinesi-
ology and Recreation, and Campus Recre-
ation for both financial, facility, and various
other resources.
Initial startup funding for the clinic came
from Student Health Services, the College
of Applied Science and Technology, and
the School of Kinesiology and Recreation.
However, recently the clinic has been able
to fund all athletic trainer stipends/salaries,
clinic equipment, and resource expendi-
tures solely from the funds generated from
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Kinesiology Review Has a New Editor
K inesiology Review (KR), not to be con-
fused with Kinesiology Today (KT),
has a new editor. Kinesiology Review is
a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that
publishes scholarly reviews from all sub-
disciplines in kinesiology. Kinesiology Today
is published quarterly by the American
Kinesiology Association and is intended
to appeal to a broad audience. It pub-
lishes short articles that summarize current
research and issues related to physical
activity as well as some up-to-date news
in the field of kinesiology. I asked the new
editor, David Wiggins to share some of his
thoughts about KR:
I am very excited about assuming the
position of Editor-in-Chief of the Kinesiology
Review (KR). The journal, which was first
guided, and ably so,
by Jane Clark and
then Maureen Weiss,
is unique in that it is
the official scholarly
publication of both
the American Kine-
siology Association
and National Acad-
David Wiggins emy of Kinesiology.
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From my perspective, this is a real strength
and fits neatly with the mission of the journal
which publishes integrative scholarly work
of both a basic and applied nature.
My intent is to focus much of my energy
on encouraging people in the field of kine-
siology to submit their work to the journal.
A reality faced by Jane and Maureen, and
one I will undoubtedly experience as well,
is the dearth of manuscripts submitted
to the journal. There are several possible
reasons for why this is the case and I am
considering a number of ways to hopefully
rectify it so that we can have an adequate
flow of manuscripts. This is not a comment
on the quality of KR as it is an excellent
publication that has contributed positively
to kinesiology in an assortment of differ-
ent ways. With that said, I specifically look
forward to overseeing the special issues
published each year stemming from the
annual meeting of the National Academy of
Kinesiology and annual leadership workshop
of the American Kinesiology Association.
The special issues in KR resulting from
the annual leadership workshop of the
American Kinesiology Association have
always been outstanding. The first one
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was published in 2014 and focused on
the “The Future of Teaching and Learning
in an Online World.” Guest edited by Kim
Graber and Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, the
issue was excellent and set the stage for
subsequent ones, including the 2015 issue
guest edited by Gregory Walk and Duane
Knudson on “The Intersection of Physical
Activity and Public Health: Opportunities
for Kinesiology,” 2016 issue guest edited
by Richard Kreider and Penny McCullagh
on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a
Time of Shrinking Budgets,” 2017 issue
guest edited by Mary Rudisill, Philip Mar-
tin, and Tom Templin on “Advantages and
Challenges of Partnerships and Relation-
ships,” and 2018 issue guest edited by Tom
Templin, Jason Carter, and Kim Graber on
“Promoting Quality Undergraduate Educa-
tion in Kinesiology.” The upcoming issue
emanating from this month’s leadership
workshop on “Hiring, Evaluating, and Retain-
ing Kinesiology Faculty” will no doubt also
be of high quality and add significantly to
the body of knowledge in our field.
In all, these issues and the other high-
quality work that has been published in KR
in its relatively short history causes me to
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be very optimistic about the future.
Please know I will do my best to
try to maintain the excellence of
the journal to insure its continued
success and positive influence on
kinesiology as a disciplinary and
professional area of study. Please
also know that I welcome and, in
fact, encourage suggestions and
insights into how all of us collec-
tively can contribute to a journal
that is special in many ways and
decidedly unique relative to the
plethora of other outlets that pub-
lish articles dealing with physical
activity, exercise, sport, and other
human movement forms.
Contact David at dwiggin1@gmu.edu
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STORK Aims to Improve Quality of Research
Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology will provide a
platform to advance methods and practices in kinesiology research.
The Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology (STORK) will
launch January 7, 2019 with the goal to improve research methods and practices in sport
and exercise science.
“We are excited to provide a space where anyone with an interest in improving kinesiol-
ogy research can come together to strengthen our knowledge of sport, exercise, health,
and rehabilitation sciences” said John P. Mills, Ph.D., CPsychol., Executive Chair of STORK.
“Whether you’re an educator, coach, practitioner, researcher, student, athlete or consumer
of science – you’re welcome here.”
STORK will encourage kinesiologists (a.k.a. sport and exercise scientists and movement
scientists) to prioritize research quality over quantity. The society will strive to provide edu-
cational opportunities to empower early career researchers and established scientists to
adopt more rigorous research practices, such as pre-registration, replication, open sharing
of data, and sharing of working documents for discussion.
In partnership with the Open Science Framework (OSF) and SportRxiv, STORK will aim
to increase transparency in kinesiology research by providing the infrastructure to openly
share and discuss study protocols, analysis code, and other research materials. Further,
the society aims to promote alternative publishing models to remove cost-prohibitive bar-
riers in the dissemination and access to kinesiology research.
STORK will encourage the application of metascience and critical evaluations of research
practices within kinesiology to advance scientific methodology in the discipline.
“Science is only self-correcting when we are able to critically evaluate the way research
is conducted,” Mills said. “The quality of research and the confidence in our knowledge
can be improved by scrutinizing current practices in our field, and by offering more rigor-
ous alternatives.”
To become a member of STORK, visit https://www.patreon.com/STORKinesiology. For
more information about STORK visit http://storkinesiology.org/. For more information about
SportRxiv visit http://sportrxiv.org/. For more information about OSF visit https://osf.io/.
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Simply Standing At Work May Not Be Enough
By Patrick Wade, Staff Writer
A s standing workstations become a more
popular choice to get sedentary workers
out of their chairs, new research suggests
that it likely is not having the calorie-burning
benefit that those workers may be hoping
for. The study, published in November in
the journal Medicine & Science in Sports &
Exercise, found that standing on average
burned only nine more calories per hour
than sitting. To put it another way, accord-
ing to the University of Bath, it would take
an entire day of standing for a worker to
burn just one cup of coffee.
That is not to say that standing is without
other benefits – for example, there remains
the potential positive effect of engaging
muscles that would not be engaged while
sitting. But if weight loss is your goal, it is
going to take a lot more than simply stand-
ing while you work.
“There is little doubt in my mind that pro-
longed sitting is bad and therefore interven-
tions to interrupt that do have value,” said
James Betts, a professor in the University of
Bath’s Department for Health and one of the
study’s authors. “However, we do need to be
aware that simply standing is not sufficient
on its own to move an individual out of the
’sedentary’ category.” Standing desks are
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gaining popularity in workplaces
across the United States. Accord-
ing to a survey from the Society for
Human Resource Management,
standing desks were becoming
a workplace benefit faster than
any other. In 2017, 44 percent of
workplaces provided standing
desks for their employees, up from
13 percent in 2013.
Prolonged sitting, the society
says, can increase the chance of
blood clots, reduce muscle mass
and signal to the body to store
more calories as fat. When you
compound these effects for many
workers over many years, it increases the standing still, rather than any more mean-
amount of sick time used and injuries to ingful activity,” Betts said.
the neck, wrist, elbow and back – which The research team was not out to bust
can have an effect on a company’s health any kind of myth. Betts said that there was
care costs. an important gap in the available research
It is for all these reasons that more com- about understanding the real energy cost
panies are looking toward promoting more of sitting versus standing. In other words,
activity in the office. But Betts’ research the researchers wanted to establish a
suggests that a standing desk alone may baseline for deciphering the caloric effect
not be enough. “We do cite evidence in our on the body of sitting versus standing if
paper that workplace interventions designed all else is held equal.
purely to reduce sitting time indicate that To make that determination, the research-
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ers recruited 46 healthy men and women
who entered the lab in a fasted state. Their
resting metabolic rates were tested, and
then they were asked to either lie down,
sit or stand for a period of time. They did
not engage in any other kind of significant
activity during those time periods, other
than watching a non-emotive documentary
provided by the researchers. But notably,
they also were not restrained from spontane-
ous body movements – in other words, they
could fidget all they wanted. Researches
collected the participants’ expired gases
to measure how many calories they burned
during the course of these activities. They
found that there was an average 12 percent
difference in calories burned while standing
versus sitting, roughly translating to about
nine calories per hour.
Given that interventions designed to
reduce sitting typically encourage between
30 to 120 minutes more standing per day,
the nine calories per hour is not going to be
a meaningful difference for most people.
Asked what kind of practical insight this
might provide for users of new technologies
to increase activity, Betts said that more
activity than simply standing is required to
enjoy meaningful caloric benefits.
“Fitness watches can and do therefore
takes this information into account,” Bett
said. “I note some already go further than
just saying ‘stand-up’ and now actually say
‘move around a bit.’”
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The standing workstations that are gain-
ing more popularity are another matter.
“The workstations might take a bit more
thought, however, as they are generally
designed just to have people stand in situ,
which is exactly what we showed does not
meaningfully increase energy expenditure,”
Betts said. “Perhaps treadmill desks are
more beneficial on that basis.”
The study was not designed necessarily
to draw a comparison between sitting versus
standing, but rather to establish the energy
cost of each to inform future research. The
researchers made sure to acknowledge in
their discussion that there are many other
potential benefits of standing over sitting. As
a general recommendation, and especially
if the standing desk is not your thing, Betts
offered that it is likely very valuable to get
out of your chair from time to time.
“Of course, the health benefits of regular
moderate-vigorous intensity exercise have
been well documented, but I think the health
risks of prolonged sedentary time justify
recommendations even for short activ-
ity breaks,” Betts said. “I would therefore
advocate conscious efforts to frequently
engage in activities more energetic than
mere standing, even if that activity does
not reach an intensity or duration that would
generally be classified as ‘exercise.’”
Now that the researchers have estab-
lished the baseline energy costs of sitting
and standing, Betts said that he would
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find it interesting to study the effect that
fidgeting may have on burning calories and
weight loss. Anecdotally, he said, there are
plenty of stories from people who try to
diet and exercise and have disappointing
results. He wonders if there may be other
factors at play that, to this point, have not
really been measured.
“I think that non-exercise activity (ther-
mogenesis) and fidgeting in particular are
important in understanding that,” Betts said.
“Just because we don’t notice them and
can’t easily monitor the amount of energy
expended that way does not mean it is
not a quantitatively important element of
energy balance with the potential to offset
or add to any more conscious efforts to
manage body weight.”
James A. Betts, Harry A. Smith, Drusus A. Johnson-Bonson,
Tom I. Ellis, Joseph Dagnall, Aaron Hengist, Harriet Carroll,
Dylan Thompson, Javier T. Gonzalez, Gregg H. Afman. (2018).
The Energy Cost of Sitting versus Standing Naturally
in Man. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2018; 1
Study takes stand on true health benefits of getting up out
of your chair. (2018). Retrieved December 20, 2018, here
Lytle, T. (2018, April 11). Promote an Active Workforce
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E xecutive D irector ’ s C olumn
AKA: Moving Ahead Strategically
By T. Gilmour Reeve, Ph.D., Executive Director
H
igher Educa-
tion Institutions
(HEIs) rely on plan-
ning and assessment
to document their
accountability in ful-
filling their missions
and achieving their
T. Gilmour Reeve visions. In fact, the
major regional insti-
tutional accrediting agencies all require
that HEIs be engaged in planning and
assessment to demonstrate improvement to
their programs and services. This empha-
sis on planning and assessment is often
referred to institutional effectiveness and
involves all areas of the institution, both
academic and support areas. To meet the
requirements for planning and assessment,
many, if not most, HEIs rely on a strategic
planning process which involves planning,
implementing, and assessing their teach-
ing, research, and service programs.
The universal appeal of the strategic
planning process among HEIs is that it is
an effective and efficient method to man-
age change and advance the institution to
higher levels of performance. The American
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Kinesiology Association (AKA) also uses
the strategic planning process to guide
its progress. The first AKA strategic plan,
established in 2014, served the associa-
tion in marking its progress. However, after
nearly five years, it was appropriate for AKA
to revisit the strategic plan and to identify
needed updates to the plan. The Board of
Directors appointed an Ad Hoc Strategic
Planning Committee to review and recom-
mend revisions to the plan. The committee
members, Jeff Fairbrother (chair), University of
Tennessee, Mary Rudisill, Auburn University,
Mike Bemben, University of Oklahoma, and
Karen Francis, University of San Francisco,
worked for several months to recommend
revisions to the plan. Overall, their recom-
mendations were that major revisions were not
needed and that minor revisions in wording
and adoption of new performance indicators
would be beneficial to the strategic planning
process. At the 2019 AKA Board of Direc-
tors meeting in Phoenix, AZ, the revisions
to the AKA strategic plan were reviewed
and the Board authorized implementation
of the revised strategic plan.
Both the AKA mission and vision were
“refreshed” such that now our mission is “The
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AKA promotes and enhances kinesiology
as a unified field of study and advances
its many applications through its programs
and services to academic units and orga-
nizations” and our vision is “The AKA will
be recognized as the leading organization
that advocates, facilitates, and enhances
kinesiology as a unified academic field.”
The mission now emphasizes the varied
programs and services that AKA offers our
member departments and affiliate orga-
nizations and the vision establishes our
long-term outcome to be recognized as
“the leading organization” in promoting
kinesiology as a unified field of study. The
AKA values and is committed to (1) A broad
and unified academic field of kinesiology,
(2) Multiple perspectives on the study of
physical activity, (3) Physically active life-
styles for all individuals, and (4) Inclusive
excellence within the field. These values
serve as the foundation upon which AKA
will implement its strategic goals while
pursuing its mission and vision.
AKA established four goals that are
supported by its programs and services to
our academic departments and the profes-
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sional organizations that are engaged in
the study of physical activity. The revised
goals are to:
Advocate Promote the academic disci-
pline of kinesiology as a central contributor
to the understanding of human health and
performance.
Communicate Disseminate essential
information and emerging trends to enhance
the administration of kinesiology academic
units
Support Provide professional develop-
ment and support activities for kinesiology
academic units and professionals in human
health and performance
Connect Strengthen connections and
engagement with kinesiology academic
units and professional organizations.
Each goal has relevant performance indica-
tors to be used in the assessment of prog-
ress toward meeting the stated goal. It’s the
performance indicators that motivate and
guide the implementation of strategies that
represent the AKA programs and services.
Most of the AKA work is completed by
standing committees: Communication and
Marketing Committee; Diversity Committee;
Future Direction Committee; Membership
Committee; Publications Committee; and
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the Workshop Planning Committee. Each
committee has responsibilities and tasks
to accomplish. With the implementation
of the revised strategic plan, the commit-
tees will be asked to align their respective
responsibilities and tasks to the AKA goals
and performance indicators. This alignment
will ensure that the AKA strategic plan is
guiding the work of the committees and
that the accomplishments of the commit-
tees are supporting the strategic plan and
moving AKA ahead strategically toward
its mission and vision.
AKA strives to strategically advance
kinesiology as a unified academic discipline
focused on the study of physical activity
through multiple perspectives. The engage-
ment of our member departments in the
AKA programs and services is critical to our
success. AKA invites you and all faculty in
your academic department to participate
in our annual leadership workshops and
the AKA Leadership Institute, and to get
involved with one of the AKA committees. It
takes committed professionals for strategic
initiatives to positively impact an organization.
Contact me (tgreeve@americankinesiology.
org) to learn more about AKA membership
benefits, its programs and services, and
how to get involved with our committees
to help promote academic kinesiology as
a unified field of study.
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Brits Get Kids Running
At one primary school in England,
when the teachers says “Daily Mile”,
the kids head outside and run laps
around the school. They have been
doing so at this school in Stirling
England for over three years and
the children appear happy with the
activity and reports suggest none of
children are overweight. The Daily
Mile is already a program in 3,500
schools, but the goal is to expand
it to 20,000 primary schools. Two
national and 11 local coordinators will
be hired to supervise the program. In
a recent article in The Guardian, they
report that an infusion of 1.5 million
pounds cash from Sport England
(www.sportengland.org) will expand
this program around the country.
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Sport History Suffers a Loss
By Claudia Guedes, Susan Zieff and Susanna LI-JUE
R oberta J. Park was born on July 15,
1931 in Oakland, California. She earned
an AB degree from the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley (1953); a Master of Arts
from The Ohio State University (1955);
and Doctor of Philosophy from the Uni-
versity of California (1970). She was an
Instructor at The Ohio State University
from 1955-1956; a teacher in the Oakland
(California) Public Schools, 1956-1959;
and a supervisor and then professor, at
the University of California, Berkeley, 1959-
1994. From 1982-1992, she was Chair of
the Department of Physical Education,
which then became the Department of
Human Biodynamics in (1995), merging
in 1997 with the Department of Integrative
Biology. She passed away peacefully at
home on December 5, 2018.
Robbie, as she
was known by her
close friends and
colleagues, was a
passionate scholar
in the field of sport
history with a spe-
cialty in the history of
health, exercise and
Roberta Park
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physical education in the 18th, 19th and 20th
centuries. She edited a number of seminal
books and monographs as well as many
chapters in books and monographs. She
delivered lectures and research presen-
tations in all parts of the world, often as
keynote speaker or in an honor address.
Her research output is truly outstanding and
her extensive work on embodiment, sport,
health and physical practices in historical
context is widely admired.
Roberta was a lifelong proponent of physi-
cal education and worked tirelessly at CAL
and in various professional organizations
to promote the field. She was a fellow of
the American Academy of Kinesiology and
Physical Education (inducted 1979 and now
called National Academy of Kinesiology),
serving as President of that organization
(1990-91); fellow of the British Society for
Sports History; Vice President of the Inter-
national Association for the History of Sport
and Physical Education (1989); President
of the National Association for Sport and
Physical Education; and Vice President of
the International Association for the History
of Sport and Physical Education.
Roberta was also the recipient of count-
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less awards recognizing her outstanding
and extensive contributions to the field.
Among the awards she received are the
D.B. Dill Historical Lecture, American Col-
lege of Sports Medicine; The Reet Howell
Memorial Address, Australian Society for
Sport History; the Distinguished Scholar
Award, National Association for Physical
Education in Higher Education; the Alliance
Scholar, American Alliance for Health and
Physical Education; International Sport
History Scholar Award; and Seward Staley
Address, North American Society for Sport
History.
Dr. Park found herself fighting against
shifting priorities at CAL and declining
support for the Physical Education Depart-
ment. When the administration decided (in
spite of three positive reviews by Academic
Senate committees) to dis-establish the
Department and convert Harmon Gym-
nasium into Haas Pavilion, Robbie retired
to focus on the research and writing that
was so important to her.
During her retirement, Dr. Park never
wavered from her strong stance on the
importance of exercise and sports for chil-
dren and everyone else. She came to her
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campus office every day, swam in Hearst
pool at noon, and spent the afternoon with
her research. She was a force of nature,
never missing an opportunity to educate
anyone willing to listen to the attributes of
staying active, and the many benefits to
the mind and society as a whole. Physical
Education, UC Berkeley is greatly apprecia-
tive of Robbie’s lifelong effort to return to
its rightful place as vital to the success of
Berkeley students and of humans in general.
Another remarkable part of Roberta was
her adventurous spirit, and she explored
places such as Russia and Germany before
they were fashionable. One particularly
memorable trip was taken in the 1950’s
when Robbie and three friends drove to
Alaska from Oakland. Besides being a
remarkable scholar, she was a generous
and supportive mentor, a wonderful friend,
loving mother and grandmother, and a
wonderful human being.
For additional information about Roberta
and the physical education program at UC
Berkeley see: http://pe.berkeley.edu/rjp.html
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“Kinesiology” Gets Mentioned on the Today Show
It is not often, as you listen to the Today Show, that you hear the term “kinesiol-
ogy”. As dedicated professionals in the field, I am sure we would love to hear
that word more often in the news or on shows that talk about sport, exercise,
and physical activity.
On December 21st, Lauren Maloney-Gepfert from Colorado was interviewed for
her work helping athletes rehabilitate from spinal cord injuries (see link below). On
the show she indicated that she had been involved with studying movement for her
entire life. According to her website (Neuroplastic Functional Institute https://nfiheals.
com/about/), she was an active participant in a variety of physical activities as an
undergraduate, then enrolled in a Master of Fine Arts in Dance at University of Utah,
then completed a Physician Associate program. On the Today show, she indicated
she did a Masters in Dance Kinesiology (she apprenticed with Sally S. Fitt – a profes-
sor of dance at Utah who produced a well-known text book called Dance Kinesiol-
ogy). The book focuses primarily on biomechanics and physiology (so has a narrow
perspective on kinesiology) but does have one section dedicated to wellness.
Her rehabilitation program is based on three principles:
•• Neuroplastic functional training
•• Kinesiology
•• Life education
On the program one athlete in particular is highlighted who suffered a spinal cord
injury and was initially told he would not walk again. He has been enrolled in a pro-
gram led by Maloney and is shown doing extensive in water and on land movements.
When asked by the Today Show interviewers if they had any research that sup-
ported the efficacy of the program, Maloney indicated that she had just started to
collect data. At present they have four case studies and they are hoping to collect
more data on the program.
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(https://www.today.com/video/inside-nft-a-rehab-helping-paralyzed-people-move-again-1404114499556).
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AKA Jerry R. Thomas Distinguished Leadership Awards
O ur association
recognizes out-
standing administra-
Undergraduate – Harald Barkhoff –
University of Hawaii Hilo
tive and leadership Dr. Barkhoff, a native of Germany, is cur-
performance of an rently a professor and chair (for last five
individual in an admin- years) of the Department of Kinesiology
istrative unit at an AKA and Exercise Sciences at UHH. Under his
member institution leadership the UHH has expanded the
Jerry R. Thomas that helps contrib- influence of Kinesiology in Hawaii and the
ute to the attainment Pacific islands.
of the unit’s strategic goals. The award is Enrollment has increased 500% since
named in honor of Jerry R. Thomas, the his employment as chair at Hilo. Once a
first president of AKA. An award is given program of 48 students, it has grown to
for each level of institutional member 227 students. Dr. Barkhoff has succeeded
in inspiring dozens of undergraduates to
collaborate in sport and exercise science
research that resulted in peer-reviewed
publications and poster presentations.
Under his leadership, the KES department
has been transformed from a small service
oriented Health and PE department into a
department that uniquely takes into account
and uses as its foundation Hawaiian and
Polynesian cultural beliefs and practices.
He has promoted interdisciplinary initia-
tives with programs across the Hilo campus.
Also, he has built international collaborations
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Australia. Barkhoff has received numerous
awards at Hilo including a university excel-
lence in teaching award.
Beyond his stellar campus leadership
activities, Harald is known for his outreach
activities in his community and especially
with public charter schools and Native
Hawaiian community health education
services. Harald was instrumental in bring-
ing his faculty colleagues located in vari-
ous spots on campus under one roof in
a renovated facility that included a new
Kinesiology research lab.
In conclusion, Harald Barkhoff has been
an inspiration to his faculty colleagues
and importantly to Hilo students. This is
particularly true of Native Hawaiian stu-
dents who not only have excelled in the
department, but through Harald’s effort
have reconnected to their heritage and
Hawaiian culture that in turn, has helped
them find their culture identity and purpose
in life. As stated by one of his nominators,
Dr. Barkhoff is an effective leader, someone
who gets things done and is a leader of
reform and innovation.
https://hilo.hawaii.edu/depts/kinesiology/
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Master’s - Chris Hearon, Texas A&M
University – Kingsville
Dr. Christopher Hearon serves as Professor
and Chair of the Department of Health and
Kinesiology at Texas A&M-Kingsville. His
achievements across his tenure at TAMUK
are truly impressive. In reviewing the letters
from his nominators as well as his CV, it is
clear Dr. Hearon has succeeded at a very
high level relative to his leadership in cur-
riculum innovation, facilitating faculty and
student research, promoting partnerships
and outreach activities, securing funding
for facility construction and renovation, and
inspiring others to excel.
He has built innovative curriculum to
strengthen the scientific core of Kinesiol-
Jason Carter, Chris Hearon, Tom Templin`
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ogy numerous tracks and minors and have serving as chair of that committee for the
aligned these programs with professional last three years. The annual scholar awards
standards. The master’s program TAMUK honors a select number of students from
has been expanded and included on-line member departments, recommended by
course options. department faculty, whose academic and
Also, beyond his own scholarly achieve- leadership records are distinctive. This is
ments, Dr. Hearon has influenced the no easy process, but Chris has been an
research productivity of faculty and stu- exceptional leader of this committee that
dents by providing start-up fund reallocat- reviews over 125 nominations each year.
ing funding for research, and increasing
student research activity through increased www.tamuk.edu/hkn
faculty mentorship. Significantly, he has
promoted the research agenda by secur- Doctoral - Mary Rudisill, Auburn
ing significant funding for new or renovated University
research facilities. Beyond this, Chris has
helped influence first generation students Dr. Mary Rudisill has been the Director of
to engage in research. the School of Kinesiology at Auburn Uni-
Overall, Dr. Hearon has been an iconic versity since 2005. This longevity reveals
leader not only at TAMUK, but throughout
the state of Texas. This academic year is
rather special as Chris enters his 14th year
as department chair at TAMUK, which
makes him currently the longest tenured
kinesiology chair in the state of Texas. As
one of his sponsors stated, “It is no secret
to anyone who has worked with him – he
is an exceptional leader of our department
and profession with a strong record of ser-
vice to our institution and to his discipline.”
The AKA board and membership has
recognized this especially through his excep-
tional service on our student awards com- Jason Carter, President; Mary Rudisill ; Tom Templin
mittee over the last nine years, including
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how beloved and skilled Mary is in her
role. Mary has built innovative curricula,
including on-line or distance offerings, that
align with the recommended AKA core
content. Furthermore, she has increased
the research profile of the school as evi-
denced by a significant jump in Auburn’s
National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK)
ranking. Over her tenure Auburn has
moved from 26th in 2005 to 14th in 2015.
Dr. Rudisill has fostered and estab-
lished numerous partnership, outreach and
diversity/inclusion activities by developing
centers and programs such as the Warrior
Research Center, the Sport Optimiza-
tion center, the Gastrointestinal Research
Center, Future Scholars Summer Bridge
program, various partnerships with HBCUs,
the US Olympic Committee, VCOM Medi-
cal School and a host of other local and
regional partnerships. This includes inter-
national collaborations and opportunities
for her colleagues and students as well
as visiting faculty and students from over
15 countries. Mary has “engineered” the
construction of new buildings and the
renovation of other research and class-
room space. In the spring of 2013, Auburn
moved into a new 23 million dollar state
of the art building.
Importantly, she has brought new talent
to the school through faculty and staff hires
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– people who have elevated the status of Mary Rudisill is a change agent and a
Kinesiology on the Auburn campus, in the class individual who is beloved by all that
state of Alabama, and beyond. She has interact with her.
also maintained a high level of scholarship
and service. She was recently inducted http://www.education.auburn.edu/kinesiology
as a Fellow into the National Academy of
Kinesiology and served as President of (Information for this column was provided
AKA in 2016. by Thomas Templin)
Mary knows how to generate revenue to
support her programs, faculty, and students. The nominations for this award are due
Operations and investment revenue has on April 30th. Please check website for
grown from $58,000 to $4.4. million since details.
2005 through grants, contracts, and on-line
and traditional course offerings.
What Are You Doing for the Next 7 Days?
If your name is Chau Smith and you are from Missouri, you could say I am 70
years old and I ran 7 marathons, in 7 days on 7 continents. I did a story on
dedicated marathoners in a previous issue of KT (Winter, 2018) but this story
seems to beat that one. Chau has made lots of notable landmarks but 777 at 70
is pretty remarkable. During January of 2018, she ran marathons in Antarctica,
Australia, Amsterdam, Cairo, Chili, Garden City, and Singapore.
To accomplish this feat, you would need to get up in the morning, run a mara-
thon, get on a plane, and then wake up and repeat the effort. She apparently
did not want to publicly announce her goals before she started. According to a
CNN report by Ellie Kaufman, the trip was organized by Steve Hibbs the owner
of Marathon Adventures. PMc
http://marathon-adventures.com/
http://www.official7continentsmarathonclub.com/
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E ditor ’ s O ne C ent ’ s W orth
AKA Workshop Warms My Heart
Penny McCullagh, Ph.D., KT Editor
I
just attended the
AKA Workshop and
my heart is warm.
While the topic of
each workshop, as
well as the pre-con-
ference workshops
change every year,
Penny McCullagh the positive climate in
the room and among
the participants continues to grow.
The audience is made up primarily of
department heads, with a smattering of
program chairs, deans and this year two
university presidents (John Dunn, and Daniel
Weeks). The department names vary as well
– not all are called Kinesiology. Nevertheless,
nearly 100 people come together to share
ideas, concerns and solutions to leader-
ship issues in their home institutions. The
academic units vary from small campuses
that only offer an undergraduate degree,
through comprehensive universities with
masters programs, and finally the major
R1 universities. Despite the obvious dif-
ferences in these campuses, there is one
common interest – how to gain information
that will improve the quality of education for
students, the ease of operatons for staff,
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and the cohesiveness,
productivity, and well-
being of faculty.
The level of exper-
tise in the room is also
quite varied. There
are many brand new
department chairs that
are changing roles
from being a faculty
member to the leaders
of their department.
There are other lead-
ers such as program Fireside chat at AKA Workshop with President Daniel Weeks of the University of
coordinators. There Northern British Columbia and President Emeritus John Dunn of Western Michigan
are even a few grad- University.
uate students who
are learning about what it means to be they always come away with something
a professional in kinesiology. And then new that they can try at home and often
there are seasoned veterans (department say they wished they had these learning
chairs, deans, and presidents) who have opportunities when they were a new chair
had years of experience. In this forum, all or department leader. Everyone is gracious
voices are heard. in their willingness to share.
I often chat with individuals at the work- If you were at the workshop, I hope you
shop and the responses are overwhelm- will share your experiences and encourage
ingly positive. The novice leaders, while others in our field to attend in the future and
perhaps somewhat overwhelmed with their join AKA to strengthen our reach.
new responsibilities are eager to learn.
The long-time experienced leaders say
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