Sandra K. Negley, MS, MTRS, CTRS

Sandra is an Associate Professor (Lecturer) Emeritus at the University of Utah, College of Health, Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapies City. Sandra authored the proposal for the Recreational Therapy Program and served as the program’s first Program Director of Recreational Therapy. Prior to moving to the Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapy Sandra taught in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (PRT) for over 30 years, first as an instructor and then as an Assistant Professor.  She coordinated their Therapeutic Recreation Emphasis, taught in the experiential education emphasis and the general recreation core.  She served on 35 master student committees and was a clinical advisor on numerous Ph.D. dissertations. Sandra has authored clinical practice books, textbook chapters, numerous journal articles, and contemporary publications.

She served for 23 years as the Manager of Expressive Therapies for the Universities’ Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI), was also the Director of Adolescent Services and Founder and Director of the organization’s Self-Esteem Institute.

Donate the the Sandra Negley Endowed Scholarship.

Institutional Appointments

*Associate Professor (Lecturer) Emeritus
Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapies
University of Utah
1 Oct 2020-present

*Adjunct Faculty 
Department of Parks, Recreation, & Tourism
University of Utah 
16 Sept 2016-1 Oct 2020

*Associate Professor (Lecturer)
Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapies
University of Utah
1 Jul 2019-1 Oct 2020

*Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
Department of Occupational and Recreational Therapies
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
University of Utah
1 Jul 2014-1 Jul 2019

Academic Positions

*Instructor (Clinical)
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism
1 Jul 1997-1 Jul 2014

*Adjunct Faculty
Department of Leisure Studies
1 Jul 1992-1995