Abstract
Within universities and colleges in North America so-called campus recreation departments, under the student affairs division, exist on campuses. in addition to the athletic departments, in order to provide general students, faculty, and staff members with recreational sports activities. Seventy-five (75%) of U.S. students are participating in campus recreation programs. The purpose of this paper is to understand recent trends regarding campus recreation programs in the U.S. The following are the main findings:
Campus recreational programs consist of fitness, open recreation, intramural leagues, sports clubs, aqua programs, outdoor programs, and others. Sports activities with higher participation rates among female students were fitness programs, including cardio-training and weight training followed by group exercise. Those among male students were fitness programs including weight training and cardio-training, followed by open recreation and intramural leagues. In intramural leagues, male leagues had the highest numbers of participating teams. Co-ed leagues had more teams than female leagues.
Sports clubs exist for each kind of sport. Although those clubs are managed by students voluntarily, there is a great deal of involvement of the campus recreation department. In terms of usage time slots, early evening was the most frequently used slot, followed by afternoon (2 pm to 5 pm) . Revenue structures for campus recreation consist of student usage fees, subsidiaries from general students activity fees, non-student membership fees, etc. Campus recreation program has been implemented as one of the student affairs functions.
