University of Central Florida
By UCF Staff
Nov. 17, 2009
Leadership positions at Football Bowl Subdivision universities are overwhelmingly held by white men, despite the fact that more than half of the student-athletes are African-American, according to a University of Central Florida study released today.
Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at UCF, penned the “The Buck Stops Here: Assessing Diversity among Campus and Conference Leaders for Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Schools in the 2009-10 Academic Year.” The report examines the lack of diversity in key leadership roles in college football.
Lapchick reviewed the race and gender of conference commissioners and campus leaders, including college and university presidents, athletics directors and faculty athletics representatives, for all 120 FBS institutions. The study also includes head football coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators, assistant coaches and football student-athletes. Finally, the faculty as a whole is examined.
Lapchick notes in the study, “Women and people of color who seek leadership positions in American higher education and in college sport face enormous odds. The leadership in the power structure in college sport remains overwhelming white.”
In the 2009 season, there are seven African-American coaches, one Latino coach and one Asian coach in the FBS, for a total of nine coaches of color. There were eight coaches of color in 2008.
However, “even with the record number of head coaches of color, college football is still far behind other college and professional sports," Lapchick said. “While the percentages are slightly better in some categories, the general picture is still one of white men running college sport. Overall, the numbers simply do not reflect the diversity of our student-athletes.”
To read the full report, click here.
http://news.ucf.edu/UCFnews/index?page=article&id=002400413702bfed0124310819fb002403&subject_id=0024004102975ad83011b2b83251c0c35
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