Welcome to the Director Download, powered by Campus Rec Magazine.
It’s time to go behind the curtain of the director role and have honest discussions with leaders in the campus recreation industry.
In this episode, host Grady Sheffield, the director of Campus Recreation at Towson University and the senior advisor to Campus Rec Magazine, gives you the listener real and authentic conversation between himself and special guest Maureen McGonagle, the director of Campus Recreation, CENTERS LLC at DePaul University.
McGonagle is a campus rec legend and walks listeners back to how she first entered the field. She discusses what CENTERS is and how it’s impacted the industry.
Plus, McGonagle shares with Sheffield on what makes DePaul different and why she’s been so involved in NIRSA, although she initially couldn’t get elected to save her life.
Finally, with her impending retirement in July 2024, McGonagle reflects on the evolution of challenges as a director and how she wants to be remembered.
Enjoy their conversation.
Show Notes from the Conversation with Moe McGonagle
- McGonagle shares how long she’s been in the field at 1:30.
- Listen to how she got her start in campus rec at 3:03.
- At 8:28, McGonagle shares what CENTERS is and the advantages that come with it.
- How DePaul ended up as the first building for CENTERS at 12:20.
- CENTERS’ impact on the industry at 17:25.
- What makes DePaul different? Listen to what McGonagle has to say at 20:55.
- McGonagle shares why she’s been so involved in NIRSA at 24:45.
- The impact both the presentations and being so involved has had on McGonagle at 29:22.
- Why she couldn’t get elected to save her life back in the day at 31:18.
- Sharing how the Leadership Summit for Aspiring Directors came about at 33:04.
- What McGonagle has learned about future directors through this event at 35:56.
- How NIRSA membership has evolved in McGonagle’s eyes at 39:40.
- What challenges she thinks we need to address in NIRSA moving forward at 45:55.
- McGonagle shares what challenges her as a director today versus in the past at 49:27.
- What it’s like to be a director at 53:03.
- Honoring McGonagle’s legacy and her retirement in July 2024 at 57:50.
- Here’s what she is planning to do upon retiring at 1:02:22.
- How McGonagle wants to be remembered at 1:05:20.
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