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June 2009

ASU Students Bring Community, Visitors Together Through Park Events

A course in ASU’s School of Community Resources and Development, the school which incorporates the tourism management program, challenged students to create events that inspire the people of Phoenix to join.

Students partnered with the City of Phoenix and ASU’s Parks and Recreation Student Association to offer free activities. This included a big-screen outdoor showing of movies complete with complimentary popcorn and refreshments, which drew a crowd of more than 200 people.

“We had an opportunity to see, literally 200 yards away from our College, how the theories we were learning in class could be put into practice immediately in the park,” says Samuel Richard, a senior in the College of Public Programs.

Course Professor Rodríguez said, “The park is an ideal place to develop programs that can simultaneously impact people living at the Westward Ho, ASU students at Taylor Place, people coming from Tempe on the light rail…and other residents in the community.”

In this course, Program Planning, students learn the need to focus on planning event details such as equipment rental, security, weather contingency plans, waste disposal, marketing and venue seating.

The ASU School of Community Resources and Development advances the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of local and global communities through instruction, research and service. The School provides nationally recognized interdisciplinary research expertise and innovative academic programs in nonprofit leadership and management, parks and recreation management, tourism development and management.

For more information about the School, visit http://scrd.asu.edu. 

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