William F. Stier’s research while affiliated with SUNY Brockport and other places

... Additionally, an earlier study by Stier, Quarterman and Stier (1993) of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HB CU's) indicated that although 96% of the respondents (directors) fe lt their institutions had an active intramural sports programs for all students, in reality, the percentage of fe males participating at their schools fe ll far short of male students (who took an active part in such activities). In that study, 34% of the colleges had a male participation rate at the 50% rate or higher. ...

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A Survey of Campus Recreation Directors at NIRSA Institutions: Activities Emphasized, Student Participation Patterns, Trends and Future Offerings Contemplated

... Similarly to Cardinal et al.'s (2012) findings, this study showed that institutions with the greatest number of PERs were located in the southern region of the U.S. Further research should be done in order to understand what factors may account for this finding, especially since southern states tend to rate the highest for obesity and physical inactivity rates (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020[CDC], , 2021. It has been suggested that the high number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in this region may contribute to the findings (Cardinal et al., 2012) as most of these institutions historically did require a PER (Stier et al., 1993). However, the last HBCU report on their PERs is three decades old and is in need of an update. ...

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Are Tertiary Institutions Losing Sight of Their Duty to Cura Personalis ?

... Regardless of the increasing equality between the male and female competitors in the Olympic competition, there are still huge differences in male and female sports from top-level to recreational level, as well as among children. In the elite sport, women participated for the first time after the First World War, while at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1990, women only appeared in some sports, in tennis on the grass and in golf (Stier Jr., 1991). Team women's sport gained popularity only in the early 90's, especially due to the women's basketball and football. ...

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Fundamental structure of motoric space of judokas and karateists according to sex and sports fields: 5th International Scientific Conference "Anhtropological and Theoantrophological Aspects of Physical Activities from the Constantine the Great to Modern Times", Kopaonik, 2018