{"id":716,"date":"2015-07-29T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/?p=716"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:36:55","slug":"integrating-athletics-with-institutional-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"integrating athletics with institutional missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although much of the current discussion on reform in intercollegiate athletics frames sports teams as a drain on resources, athletics can be a powerful mechanism for furthering institutional missions. Consider the case of Northern Michigan University. It&#8217;s mission is to <!--more-->&#8220;challenge its students and employees to think independently and critically, develop lifelong learning habits, acquire career skills, embrace diversity and become productive citizens in the regional and global community.&#8221; Athletics at NMU, guided by innovative director Forrest Karr, is a key contributor to this mission in that it attracts diverse, high-performing students from around the world. The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmuwildcats.com\/sports\/mswimdive\/2015-16\/roster\" target=\"_blank\">swimming and diving team,<\/a> for example, brings students to NMU who likely would not be there without sport. These student-athletes enrich the campus environment immeasurably, contributing diverse perspectives to the school&#8217;s efforts to create leaders for the global community. Administrators and professors in higher education can learn from NMU to develop more creative and purposeful integration of athletics and academics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although much of the current discussion on reform in intercollegiate athletics frames sports teams as a drain on resources, athletics can be a powerful mechanism for furthering institutional missions. Consider the case of Northern Michigan University. It&#8217;s mission is to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.education.wisc.edu\/pmmiller2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}