Looking for silver linings has quickly become a daily, and necessary, healing priority for a struggling world. Viral videos of exhausted doctors performing John Lennon’s “Imagine” in a hospital lobby. Of relatives waving through windows at their loved ones in nursing homes.
Read moreJenn Jacobs nets federal grant to create national women’s sport summit in Belize
Alternative Spring BAE 2.0 will touch down in Belize in Spring 2020 with a different mission than its Engage Global debut in 2019, thanks to a $10,000 award from the U.S. Department of State. Jenn Jacobs, an assistant professor of Sport and
Read moreAlternative Spring BAE travelers absorb life lessons in teaching Belizean coaches
NIU’s inaugural travelers in the Alternative Spring BAE program arrived in Belize with a good idea that they would learn as much as would the 24 youth sport coaches they’d gone to teach. What they hadn’t realized was that their true objective
Read more‘Alternative Spring BAE’ to transport kinesiology students to Belize in March
Five Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education students will spend their Spring Break in Belize this March as part of a new Engage Global initiative called Alternative Spring BAE. Two master’s students and three undergraduates will train about 50 Belizean coaches, teachers
Read moreEngage Global debuts in Sri Lanka
Days after the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education’s Sri Lankan visitors left the NIU campus in late April, their hosts already were planning to book flights to Asia for August. That trip began Aug. 12 – and included four students who
Read moreBelizean Youth Sport Coalition takes next step as project wraps
Just look at the numbers. Three years. Twenty-seven organizations. One hundred and twenty-one coaches, teachers and youth workers trained – 13 of them traveling to the United States for that preparation, partly delivered by three NIU students. Fifteen hundred youth enrolled in
Read moreGold medals are not the only reason to get youth involved in sport
Written by Paul Wright, Lane/Zimmerman Endowed Professor The 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil have given us the opportunity to marvel at the heights of human potential. We have been able to watch amazing displays of athleticism and skill from the most elite competitors
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