Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Archives

Project FLEX culminates in campus visit for young men who glimpse opportunity

May 15, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

They seem like any other college students. Young. Comfortably dressed. High school graduates. Eager to participate. Curious about GPAs and friends, part-time jobs and time management. Interested in earning college degrees to pursue careers in coaching, law enforcement and music. But these

KNPE professors, grad student launch Project FLEX inside Illinois Youth Center

Opened in December 1904, the 120-acre Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles can hold 348 juvenile males in its Level 2 medium-security facility. The average daily population of 138 represents about 40 percent of that capacity. The average age is 17. Those

Engage Global contingent relates empowering lessons from Sri Lanka

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

How it began is worth a smile. “They arrived in Sri Lanka on 13th August,” writes Sri Lanka’s YMCA of Pamunugama, telling of its visitors from NIU and elsewhere in the United States, “and in the evening … went on a boat

Engage Global debuts in Sri Lanka

August 13, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

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

Sri Lankan visitors experience ways to instill social, personal responsibility through sport

May 15, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Sport is spoken the world around. That certainly proved true last month in the NIU Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, where 25 young visitors from Sri Lanka and the Maldives learned about boxing from, and taught cricket to, students from DeKalb’s