Welcome to Dr. Confer's Home Page!
| Dr. John Confer, Assistant
Professor Co-Director Parks & Recreation Management Program Office: 265 Eberly Building Phone: (724) 938-4211 Email: confer@cup.edu |
Campus Mailing Address: California University of Pennsylvania Parks & Recreation Management Program Earth Sciences Department, Box 55 250 University Avenue. California, PA 15427 Earth Sciences Office: 160 Eberly Building EAS Phone: (724) 938-4180 EAS Fax: (724) 938-5780 |
Dr. Confer's Classes:
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I also maintain a number of other resources pages that you might find helpful.
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Dr. Confer's Resource & Links Pages:
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This is my personal home page. It contains
information about me and my interests both professional and personal
If you are looking for my class websites for the courses I teach @ Cal U links
to them are listed above.
Current Projects:
Teaching
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Learning Community: People, Nature & Media: Exploring Human Connections to the Outdoors & Natural World (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)
Service
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Cal U Institutional Review Board (Fall 2006-Present)
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Cal U FPDC Grants & Contracts Subcommittee (Fall 2006-Present)
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Cal U Forum University Core Values Committee (Spring 2007-Present)
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Cal U General Education Committee (Fall 2008-Present)
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NRPA's GIS Standards and Data Model Project for Parks, Trails and Recreation Facilities Advisory Committee & Task Force (Spring 2008-Present)
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NARRP 2009 National Conference Planning Committee
Research & Scholarship
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Classes taught: (Click to view Syllabus for each class)
Undergraduate:
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REC 165: Introduction to Recreation & Leisure
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GEO 340: Historical Geography
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REC 365: Recreation Resource Management
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REC 362: Recreation Site Design & Management
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REC 374: Commercial Recreation Management
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REC 378: Recreation Management & Leadership
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REC 412: Program Planning & Evaluation
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GEO 123: Introduction to CAD & GIS
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GEO 240: Human Ecology
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Baldwin Estate, Lake Tahoe, CA |
Denali the Beach Dog |
Phil the Groundhog, Groundhog Day |
14th Annual
Pike Run Youth Fishing Festival!
Saturday, April 25, 2009 - 7:00AM-3:30PM @ California Rotary Park
For Youth 15 yrs & under
Registration 7-9AM, Fishing begins @ 8:00
FREE FAMILY FUN!!!
Click HERE
for more information!
The rest of this page is under construction!
About Dr. John Confer
- Education, Teaching & Scholarship
- Educational Background:
- PhD, Major: Recreation & Parks, Minors: Geography/GIS, Environmental Resource Mgmt.; The Pennsylvania State University; University Park, PA
- MS, Major: Natural Resource Mgmt. & Engineering, Minor: Geography/GIS, University of Connecticut; Storrs, CT
- BS, Dual Major: Recreation & Leisure Services Mgmt. and Environmental Studies, East Stroudsburg University; East Stroudsburg, PA
- Pre-Education/Pre-Engineering, Lehigh County Community College; Schnecksville, PA
- Welding Technology, Northampton County Community College; Bethlehem, PA
- AAS, Major: Toolmaking Technology, Minor: Welding Technology, Pennsylvania College of Technology/Williamsport Area Community College; Williamsport, PA
- Lehigh County Area Vocational Technical School, Major: Machine tool trades; Schnecksville, PA
- Slatington High School/Northern Lehigh High School, Major: Vo-Tech/General
- Teaching Interests:
- My general area of interest includes parks and recreation including history/philosophy of recreation & leisure, recreation evaluation & research, computer applications in recreation, parks & tourism, recreation programming & leadership, recreation administration & management and trends in recreation & leisure. Within this general area I am most interested in natural resource recreation, outdoor recreation, park management, forest recreation, nature-based tourism, ecotourism and other forms of alternative tourism such as heritage tourism, agri-tourism, edu-tourism, geo-tourism and sustainable tourism. Also, I have interests and experience in teaching more advanced and focused in areas such as water-based recreation, coastal recreation/tourism development & management, recreation ecology, behavioral aspects of natural resource recreation, spatial aspects of leisure/recreation & tourism geographies and geographic information systems in parks & recreation management. Through my educational background and practical work in the areas above I have gained experiences and skills that allow me to teach general courses for park, recreation, tourism and sport majors in statistics & evaluation procedures, research methods & program evaluation, using specialized statistical software (quantitative & qualitative), and GIS software.
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- Conferences I attend:
- National Recreation Parks & Recreation National Congress/Exposition & Leisure Research Symposium
- Northeast Recreation Research Symposium
- International Symposium on Society & Resource Management
- Southeast Recreation Research Symposium
- Travel & Tourism Research Association Annual Conference
- Pennsylvania Parks & Recreation Society
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Click HERE to see my CV