Rough Draft Project 2 Written Proposal

Dear Robert Mittelstaedt, Dean

At Arizona State University, health and fitness are focused on for the benefits of the students. Below is a suggestion of what well farther benefit the students of ASU pertaining to students fitness and physical activity. Where there has been involvement to help students become fit and active, there are ways to go farther to help our students.

The suggested proposal pertains to the expanse of fitness outlets across the ASU Tempe campus. The campus already has a fully stationed fitness center that has recently been further developed, but not all students have the presents of mind to go across campus just to regulate their physical activities. In many ways having the majority of fitness outlets centered around one area is more of a hindrance to the students. Like with most things people are more likely to go out and do something when it is hosted close to a frequented living place. With the ASU fitness center it is centered far from most of the dorms and for some students in order to work out they have to walk across campus. This can be a deterrent to some students who might not have a lot of time to get to the building. To make up for that they ASU campus could be outfitted with multiple fitness areas across campus. These outlets can be placed close to the dorms and other frequented places for students. This will make the students more inclined to go out and exercise and will enhance campus health.
Sincerely,
Laura Tatone

Project 2: Written Proposal
Problem:
At the ASU Tempe Campus the fitness center is located in one area of the campus. This could be a deterrent for some students that have to go out of their way to exorcise across campus. May students might want to exorcise but when faced with the idea of going all that way it becomes a hindrance for them. Many students use walking  as a transportation around campus and the father away the fitness building is from their location, the less likely that they will want to go there. Proximity is a defining factor in a students decision making, and if the building is too far away it often leads to the idea of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. Which also leads to the problem of motivational encouragement for students to go out and do physical activities on campus.
Solution:
By placing more fitness outlets across campus and closer to the dorms the school will be promoting more students into becoming physically active and will give the students more of an incentive to go out and exorcise.
Justification:
For many students it is easier to want to go and do something if it is closer to where they like to frequent, such a their dorms. In a study conducted at a South Carolina University Julian Reed, EdD found that “Facilities close to an individuals residence will be seen often and will heighten awareness of PA[Physical Activity]. Individuals in and around the facilities who appear to be exercisers will strengthen the impact of the stimuli by making PA appear to be a social norm. Awareness of a recreational PA facility, therefore, can perhaps influence PA behavior of university  students. Maybe men and women who reported being more aware of certain PA facilities in this study lived closer to these recreational PA facilities and were cued to participate in PA at a higher frequency by individuals using the facilities” (Reed 193).
This goes to show that if the fitness outlets were closer to the students in multiple places around campus and not in one centered location, then the students will be more likely to use those facilities. If we where to create more outlets on the ASU campus there could be more students becoming physically fit. With these outlets there could be more awareness to where they are and what types of fitness the area specializes in. If the area has some way of motivating the students to go and exorcise regularly, the students would be more likely to go and be physically active.
In a study by  M. Allison Ford, PhD and Donald Torok, PhD they found that when using motivational posters around stairways and elevators of a college library, the students were more likely to use the stairs after seeing the posters on physical activity. If ASU were to create multiple fitness outlets across campus then the students could become more motivated to become fit. Along side with the new outlets there could be a larger hype to what they offer to the students and depending on where they are around campus they can focus more on one type of exorcise then another. Take for example the if there was a weight lifting room at the Palo Verde dorms.  The dorms could arrange events for students that enjoy weightlifting and they could advertise it on a weekly basis to the dorm community. Another example would be to host physically active events in the grass area at the Palo Verde dorms. That area could be use for yoga lessons, soccer, or capture the flag. All things that could be done at the fitness complex could be done in other areas of campus, with a little planning, the students could be well on there way to becoming motivated for physical activates, and with multiple fitness outlets the ASU community could make it happen.









Work Citied
Ford, M. Allison, and Donald Torok. "Motivational Signage Increases Physical Activity On A College Campus." Journal Of American College Health 57.2 (2008): 242-244. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Mar. 2013.
Reed, Julian. "Perceptions Of The Availability Of Recreational Physical Activity Facilities On A University Campus." Journal Of American College Health 55.4 (2007): 189-194. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Mar. 2013.