October 24, 2007

Minority Hiring Still Lags in College Sports, Report Says, but New Standards Could Help

By Brad Wolverton

Every year the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, at the University of Central Florida, issues a report on minority hiring in college sports. And every report says basically the same thing: White men continue to hold the vast majority of the most powerful positions in intercollegiate athletics.

This year's report, to be released this morning, echoes the findings from previous years—with one exception. For the first time, the biggest athletics departments are taking

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