The Chronicle of Higher Education
August 22, 2011
By Peter Schmidt
Las Vegas
Certain colleges may have cultures that nudge female students into stereotypically female fields and men into stereotypically male ones, suggests a study whose findings are slated to be presented here on Tuesday at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association.
Colleges that have relatively few women among their tenured faculty members and exceptionally small numbers of men among their undergraduates generally have higher levels of gender segregation by major than do other institutions, the study found. So do colleges with football teams in Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, suggesting that those with athletic programs that emphasize male-dominated sports are less likely to encourage the gender integration of various academic fields, according to a paper summarizing the study's results.
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Culture-of-Some-Colleges/128781/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Newly diverse sport report card
thebattaliononline
by Katie White
October 13, 2010
A study conducted by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, TIDES, at the University of Central Florida found collegiate sports leadership in the National Collegiate Athletics Association overwhelmingly held by white men.
The Racial and Gender Report Card, created by the sport management department of UCF, grades schools on the percentages of minority people they employ in the sports departments.
In 2008, Federal Affirmative Action policies stated the percent of minority college sports leadership positions should reflect the percent of the minority in the entire population.
Schools that meet the percentage receive an ‘A' in the study and subsequent lesser percentages receive lower scores.
Full Story: http://www.thebatt.com/news/newly-diverse-sport-report-card-1.1687164
by Katie White
October 13, 2010
A study conducted by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, TIDES, at the University of Central Florida found collegiate sports leadership in the National Collegiate Athletics Association overwhelmingly held by white men.
The Racial and Gender Report Card, created by the sport management department of UCF, grades schools on the percentages of minority people they employ in the sports departments.
In 2008, Federal Affirmative Action policies stated the percent of minority college sports leadership positions should reflect the percent of the minority in the entire population.
Schools that meet the percentage receive an ‘A' in the study and subsequent lesser percentages receive lower scores.
Full Story: http://www.thebatt.com/news/newly-diverse-sport-report-card-1.1687164
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Diversity Starts at the Top
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 28, 2010, 06:23 PM ET
By Libby Sander
Amid the scattered predictions of who might be chosen as the next NCAA president was a fervent hope among some in college sports that the association's next leader would be a woman or a minority. That didn't happen.
But for Dennis E. Thomas, the commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league of Division I historically black colleges, the important thing, he said, was that the selection process was fair.
"If I thought that it was a closed process, then I would be jumping up and down off this table," Mr. Thomas said in a telephone interview from his Virginia Beach office. "But I don't think it was."
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Diversity-Starts-at-the-Top/23571/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
April 28, 2010, 06:23 PM ET
By Libby Sander
Amid the scattered predictions of who might be chosen as the next NCAA president was a fervent hope among some in college sports that the association's next leader would be a woman or a minority. That didn't happen.
But for Dennis E. Thomas, the commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, a league of Division I historically black colleges, the important thing, he said, was that the selection process was fair.
"If I thought that it was a closed process, then I would be jumping up and down off this table," Mr. Thomas said in a telephone interview from his Virginia Beach office. "But I don't think it was."
Full Story: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Diversity-Starts-at-the-Top/23571/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Friday, October 31, 2008
Backsliding for Women’s Sports
Inside Higher Ed
October 31, 2008
Most of the major changes in the status of women’s intercollegiate sports came a decade or two ago when, through a combination of tough federal enforcement, court challenges, and enlightened decisions by college leaders, many institutions began to lavish more money and attention in an attempt to give equitable treatment to their women’s teams and female athletes.
Over the last five years or so — even as advocates for lower-profile men’s sports have continued to spar with women’s sports advocates about numbers and politics — the status quo has largely held, with the proportion of college athletes who are women staying relatively flat.
Now, though, it appears as if women are beginning to lose ground. A biennial gender equity report released without fanfare by the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday finds that colleges that play Division I sports directed a smaller proportion of athletics spending to women’s teams in 2005-6 than they did in 2003-4. In the 2003-4 academic year, when the NCAA last surveyed its members, Division I sports programs spent an average of $7,285,500 on men’s sports and $4,194,800 on women’s sports, for a 16 percentage point differential (63 to 37 percent). In 2005-6, the year examined in the survey released Thursday, that split had widened to 22 percentage points, 66 percent to 34 percent ($8,653,600 for men’s sports vs. $4,447,900 for women’s teams). [Full story: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/women]
October 31, 2008
Most of the major changes in the status of women’s intercollegiate sports came a decade or two ago when, through a combination of tough federal enforcement, court challenges, and enlightened decisions by college leaders, many institutions began to lavish more money and attention in an attempt to give equitable treatment to their women’s teams and female athletes.
Over the last five years or so — even as advocates for lower-profile men’s sports have continued to spar with women’s sports advocates about numbers and politics — the status quo has largely held, with the proportion of college athletes who are women staying relatively flat.
Now, though, it appears as if women are beginning to lose ground. A biennial gender equity report released without fanfare by the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Thursday finds that colleges that play Division I sports directed a smaller proportion of athletics spending to women’s teams in 2005-6 than they did in 2003-4. In the 2003-4 academic year, when the NCAA last surveyed its members, Division I sports programs spent an average of $7,285,500 on men’s sports and $4,194,800 on women’s sports, for a 16 percentage point differential (63 to 37 percent). In 2005-6, the year examined in the survey released Thursday, that split had widened to 22 percentage points, 66 percent to 34 percent ($8,653,600 for men’s sports vs. $4,447,900 for women’s teams). [Full story: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/31/women]
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