NASSM Conversations hits the ground running
On August 27th, the NASSM Conversations Task Force led a workshop introducing the initiative and setting up future sessions. NASSM Conversations was brought about as an outcome of the strategic plan, which identified members' desire to have more programming options throughout the calendar year. In addition to the provision of programming, adding virtual meetings like NASSM Conversations will aid in expanding who our academic society can serve as it will increase the accessibility of our programming.
The current NASSM Conversations Task Force consists of Drs. Natalie Smith (East Tennessee State University), Georgia Teare (Western University), and Kirsten Morrison (University of Windsor) who will be organizing these one-hour events during the last week of each month throughout the year. The first Conversation was moderated by the Task Force and aimed to get answers from session attendees to the following questions:
What are some teaching sessions you’d want to see?
What are some research sessions you’d want to see?
What are some service sessions you’d want to see?
Consider both where you are in your career (e.g., early career, mid-career, senior) and what would have been useful to you at other points in your journey?
Any other fun/interesting/cool/useful ideas you want to include?
Session attendees were split into smaller working groups to discuss these questions in detail, after which the topics of conversation were brought together and discussed holistically. Upon bringing the small group topics together, the following 10 topic areas were agreed upon for how the NASSM Conversations sessions could best serve our community:
Cultivating these sessions as a community of practice that vary from listening and learning, to sharing and mentoring, to discussing and debating.
Sessions can become a place for community building around challenges, topics, identities, career focuses, or contexts—a place for failures and successes to compare notes and support each other.
Broad but hyper-relevant teaching topics such as AI in sport management or unique content delivery options and resources.
Opportunities for mentorship and sharing of in progress work (teaching, research, other ideas) to receive feedback.
Unique aspects of research such as outside peer-review system publishing or grant writing.
Q&As with authors of recent publications (of all kinds) to gain more interactions/insights in that specific topic or method.
Building community partnerships and successful grant writing across teaching, research, and service.
Training sessions related to various concerns, such as reviewing, service agendas, RTP, etc.
Philosophical debates on the future of sport management as a discipline or the role of various types of rankings in our field.
Sessions can also allow smaller but hyper-relevant groups to gather more than once yearly at the conference (e.g., primary caregivers discussing navigating workloads and the flexible but demanding schedule of academia).
If you could not attend the first session or have more ideas for future sessions that did not come to you at the time, please use this Google Form to submit your ideas for future “NASSM Conversations”: https://forms.gle/Zyf79QJojmmZyYmA9.
Important information about the upcoming session!
The next NASSM Conversation is “Administrators Guide to the RPT Process” all about how administrators view the tenure and promotion process.
Featured panelists: Dr. Marlene Dixon (Texas A&M), Larena Hoeber (University of Regina), and Michael Sagas (University of South Carolina).
Date and time: September 25th 1pm-2pm EDT/ 10am-11am PDT
Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oceqqqj8jH93D48-mMu0lEsXlmzyWDaDY
Want to catch up?
You can watch the recording of the first session here: https://youtu.be/o-1XCozol8M
Read the transcript here: NASSM Conversations Session 1 Transcript