The 2024 Great Lakes Park Training Institute (GLPTI) took place from February 26 to 29, 2024 with 248 registered learners in attendance in person and virtually. Known for its ‘outdoorsy flannel kitschy attitude, social learning, and comradery, GLPTI returns annually to Pokagon State Park. Mark your… Read More »A Successful 2024 Great Lakes Park Training Institute Concludes
Radius Indiana, a regional economic development organization in South Central Indiana, is building the Monon South Trail with collaboration from IU’s Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands. The Monon South Trail is a proposed 57-mile trail between Mitchell and the Clark/Floyd County border that… Read More »Monon South Trail Community Planning Project
There are a wide range of public agency communicators for parks, recreation and public lands agencies, their partners, and members of the public who provide crucial news, updates, and briefings to the public and media. Most organizations are understaffed, and management responsibility is diffused making… Read More »Free Training for Park Agency Public Communication Officers-Leaders
Ross Edelstein, graduate assistant with the Eppley Institute for Parks and Public Lands, was one of four individuals or organizations to receive the 2023 Kennedy Center Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD®) Award. The award recognizes outstanding arts administrators and cultural arts organizations whose… Read More »Edelstein Receives Kennedy Center Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD®) Award
Part of the Eppley Institute’s Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands Leadership series. Eppley’s online leadership courses for parks, recreation, and public lands managers are found on proValens Learning. One of the benefits of working at Eppley is that we work with agencies across the nation… Read More »Leading an Agency Through Strategic Learning Design