Abstract
This article summarizes the content of a three-day administrative summit held at Zion Ponderosa Resort in southern Utah in late September 2010. Department chairs, heads, and deans representing 13 universities across North America offering leisure studies doctoral degrees, master's degrees, and undergraduate professional preparation degrees gathered to entertain eight multifaceted questions pertaining to their future. The questions were generated by a Delphi Process, and responses to the questions were recorded and analyzed following the summit by a team of doctoral students and professors from the University of Utah. The article concludes with a brief discussion of an administrator's responsibility in leading leisure studies departments in times of fiscal austerity, and recommending a Ȝto-doȝ list to ensure the future of leisure studies in public research universities.
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Daniel Dustin
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Rachel Collins
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Jeremy Schultz
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Laurie Browne
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Keri Schwab
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Jeff Rose
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Danielle Timmerman
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Ben Altschuler
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Jeremy Jostad
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Callie Spencer
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Jackie Newman
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.
Kelly Bricker
All authors are in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism at the University of Utah.