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Facts and Figures
- Based on university use surveys, approximately 30,000 students are engaged in athletics and recreation programs.
- The Faculty is the largest single casual staff employer and provider of student leadership opportunities at the U of T, with over 1,100 paid and volunteer opportunities.
- The Faculty has 98 full-time and approximately 750 casual staff and 133 administrative, support and facility staff.
- The Faculty has 14 undergraduate professors, 12 undergraduate lecturers and 34 undergraduate instructors.
- The Council of Athletics and Recreation (CAR) is a continuation of the oldest U of T governance system that involves students; it dates back to the Directorate of the former U of T Men’s Athletic Association, formed in October 1893.
- The BPHE program is accredited in both Kinesiology and Physical Education by the Canadian council of University Physical education and Kinesiology Administrator (CCUPEKA).
- The BPHE program is one of only two in the province that offers first year students the option to take Gross Anatomy where they can apply in-class learning to human cadavers in the lab.
- Professor emeritus Bob Goode was the creator of the widely referenced exercise "talk test" that uses a person’s ability to talk while exercising as a gauge of how much aerobic exercise their bodies can comfortably handle.
- The Varsity Athlete Concussion Research Project, led by Professor Lynda Mainwaring, Doug Richards and Paul Comper, is the largest in Canada.
- In the last 25 years, the Varsity swimming program has produced 100 all-Canadian and over 55 international swimmers for Canada.
- Since 1972, the Varsity Blues women’s hockey team has captured 17 Ontario conference championships, more than any other team in the province.
- The athletics and recreation programs at U of T are bolstered by the development of the new Varsity Centre, a 5,000-seat stadium with state-of-the-art artificial turf field, eight-lane track and dome for winter use.
- In 2007, the Faculty introduced its Concurrent Teachers Education Program (CTEP) in collaboration with the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE). The five-year program will allow students to simultaneously complete BPHE and OISE/UT courses and graduate with both their professional teacher qualification for teaching at the Intermediate/Senior level and a Bachelors degree in Physical and Health Education/Kinesiology.