This investigation was undertaken to determine the present status of health, physical education, recreation, and athletic offerings at small liberal arts colleges throughout the United States. The data are reported in a series of charts within the paper and were obtained by means of a 10-page questionnaire covering 12 specific areas filled out by…

Physical education is academic discipline influencing the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, promoting the development of the total individual by means of selected movement experiences and physical activities. As a structured portion of education, it has been in existence only about 100 years when a department of Physical Education and…