Diverse Issues in Higher Education
by Lois Elfman , February 5, 2010
When the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts take to the field this Sunday for Super Bowl XLIV, there will be what has become a familiar sight on the sidelines: a Black head coach. Jim Caldwell became head coach of the Colts after Tony Dungy, the first Black coach to win a Super Bowl, retired in January 2009.
A year ago, when Mike Tomlin led the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Super Bowl, it seemed to some like a non-issue. Diversity seemed to be an increasing reality in the pro game. On the other hand, college football continued to be under fire for its blatant absence of head coaches of color.
It’s telling that Caldwell, the fourth African-American to lead a team to the Super Bowl, is the only one of the four to have held a head coaching job in the college ranks given that the odds of a minority becoming a head NFL coach over the past several years have been greater than attaining a Division I-A head football coaching position. Caldwell, the first African-American head football coach in the Atlantic Coast Conference, led the Wake Forest University team from 1993 to 2000. Each of the four – Caldwell, Dungy, Tomlin, and Lovie Smith – worked as assistant coaches for college teams early on in their careers.
Full Story: http://diverseeducation.com/article/13520/diversity-a-winner-in-nfl-head-coach-hires-minorities-gaining-modest-ground-in-college-ranks.html
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UCF Report: College Football Far Behind Other Sports in Diversity
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
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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