Director Download No. 1: Josh Downing of Butler University

Welcome to the Director Download, powered by Campus Rec Magazine. It’s time to go behind the curtain of the director role and have honest discussions with leaders in the campus recreation industry. Host Grady Sheffield, the director of campus recreation at Towson University and the senior advisor to the Campus Rec Mastermind Groups, gives you the listener real and authentic conversation between himself and special guest, Josh Downing, the director of Recreation and Wellness at Butler University. With four years in his director role, and 16 at Butler, Downing has seen and experienced a lot. In fact, the well-being lens has led to a big shift in not only Butler’s strategic plan, but in the ways Downing leads as well. He and Sheffield dive into their rich, intertwining history in campus recreation, the Okanagan Charter, and much more in the conversation that follows.