Strategic planning is a proactive process of analyzing an organization to identify the organization’s values, mission, vision, goals, and objectives. Within campus recreation, research has focused on the processes of strategic planning, without examining the distinct organizational strategies of individual departments. The purpose of the study was to examine the content and structure of strategic plans within campus recreation and identify major priorities across institutions as a means to inform campus recreation practice. To achieve this aim, document analyses were conducted on campus recreation strategic plans of five large universities (public and private) across the United States for content and structure. The data were categorized by prominent strategic planning components outlined in Haines’s campus recreation assessment model, from which codes and themes emerged. A standard of excellence, service, and outcomes were identified as major priorities across institutions and strategic planning components. The results demonstrated an ineffective structure of goals and objectives, highlighting areas for improvement. Through empirical investigation, industry standards can be established to enhance quality programming in campus recreation.

The topic of parental involvement in the lives of their children, and the concept of over-involved parents has been growing as an area of research. The current study aims to fill this gap by examining parental involvement in the context of intercollegiate athletics. Specifically, a qualitative case-study method was utilized to examine parents' involvement in the academic and athletic lives of their studentathletes, including a focus on the concept of over-involvement in relationship to this population. Participants included eight NCAA Division I intercollegiate studentathletes (five male and three female) and the five academic advisors for athletics that worked with them. Participants completed two interviews and one journal, and all of the data was analyzed utilizing thematic analysis. The five themes that emerged were types of involvement, increasing involvement, over-involvement, outcomes of overinvolvement, and the fine line between healthy involvement and over-involvement. The present study offers insight into how student-athletes and academic advisors perceive parental involvement. This knowledge can be used by practitioners to improve how they communicate with parents and student-athletes. Also, researchers can employ this information to improve the overall understanding of parental involvement in regard to athletes. tudent-athletes make up a unique population because their experience is unlike the average college student experience given of the athletic demands that are placed upon them (Gayles, 2009;Jolly, 2008). In addition, these studentathletes face conflicting roles of being a student and an athlete (Comeaux, 2010). S

Career readiness is a concern within the American educational system, particularly among student-athletes that must manage intense time commitments both on and off the field. Student services have emerged in higher education to support career preparation, but the utilization and impact of these services for collegiate athletes is largely unknown. The systems-theory framework (STF) of career development identifies a multitude of internal and external factors that influence individual career development. Guided by STF, the purpose of this study was to predict the factors that influence collegiate athletes' utilization of career services and resulting perceived career skills. An online questionnaire was distributed to collegiate athletes at a Division I university, resulting in 143 collegiate athletes completing the questionnaire. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated collegiate athletes’ familiarity with career services significantly predicted their utilization of career services. In turn, utilization of only four of nine career services investigated (i.e., Careers Online, Career Fairs, Career Workshops, and Athletic Academic Advisor) significantly predicted perceived career skills positively. Implications for the design and marketing of career services for collegiate athletes are discussed.