White Males Still Hold Most of College Sports’ Leadership Positions, Study Finds

Despite a few more minority hires, not much changed in college sports in the 2011-12 academic year: White men still held the vast majority of campus and conference leadership positions in the Football Bowl Subdivision, according to an annual report out today from the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, at the University of Central Florida. FBS colleges hired six more minority coaches before the 2011 season for a record 19 of the 120 head-coach positions. Still, white men held 75 percent of the 120 presidential spots at FBS colleges and 84.2 percent of the athletic-director positions, the report says. White people held 333 of the 365 campus and conference leadership positions in the study, or 91.2 percent.