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

November 8, 2011, 3:02 pm

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.

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boss50

Your numbers for white men in presidential spots mimics that of the general population. Is that wrong?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=815850429 Mario Morris

Um..No, it doesn’t, unless you are saying that our population is made up of 75% white males…are you???
David_Alan_Coia

The world is not black and white, and the orientation of the report itself continues an 18th and 19th century line of racist thinking that needs to be broken. Unfortunately, such thinking persists at the federal level and continues to drive racism in our society. Educated people should be able to negotiate away from such foolishness. For a wider perspective, see: Census Racial Designations are Illogical and Unscientific, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36676, Human Events,
fizmath

Judging from the names and pictures on their website, the leadership of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport seems to be lacking in East Asians, South Asians, Native Americans and Arabs. Why don’t they fix that first? Also, will they encourage teams to diversify the athletic teams or should that be just based on talent?
22079340

Can’t resist the urge to note the ironic juxtaposition of this article with one above about the fall of the venerable Joe Paterno at Penn, apparently due to the negligence and failure to act by his AD. Maybe, if there were more gender and ethnic/racial diversity in the leadership of athletic programs?!
sandler

And the number of women? And the number of white women and women of color??
mathmaven

I heard there will be a couple of athletics jobs open at Penn State. With a few women in the old boys’ club there, maybe things would have turned out differently.