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DRAFT Equity Plan for Intercollegiate Athletics
December, 1995
Contents
- Purpose
- Operating Principles
- Definitions
- Part I: Gender Equity
- Part II: Minority Equity
- Part III: Annual Review
Purpose
The purpose of this Plan is to guide Montana State University-Bozeman
in its continuing efforts to achieve gender and minority equity
in its intercollegiate athletic programs. It has been developed to
ensure the institution continues to comply with NCAA operating principles
regarding the participation of women and minorities in intercollegiate
athletics and with Title IX regulations, as interpreted, to date, by
the Office of Civil Rights. The Plan is based on the NCAA Self-Study
conducted during AY95. At the directive of
the President, the Plan includes women's and men's rodeo, an
intercollegiate sport which is conducted under the auspices of the
College National Rodeo Association (CNRA) rather than the NCAA.
Operating Principles
The Operating Principles of the NCAA in regards to equity state:
Gender Issues. An institution shall demonstrate that, in the
area of intercollegiate athletics, it is committed to fair and
equitable treatment of both men and women. It shall have
available adequate information for assessing its current progress
in this area and an institutional plan for assessing it in the
future. The plan shall provide for accommodating the evolving
standards of the Association in the area of gender equity.
Minority Issues. An institution shall demonstrate that, in the
area of intercollegiate athletics, it is committed to providing
equitable opportunities for minority students and institutional
personnel. It shall have available adequate information for
assessing its current progress in this area and an institutional
plan for addressing it in the future. The plan shall provide for
accommodating the evolving standards of the Association in the
area of minority issues.
Definitions
As used in this Plan, the terms below are defined as follows:
"Aid Recipients" means the student athletes receiving financial aid
(scholarships) on the basis of athletic ability in intercollegiate
sports.
"Gender Equity" means, for student athletes, (1) access to the same
quantity of athletic participation opportunities as are substantially
proportional to the percentage of females to males in the
undergraduate student population, and (2) access to athletic resources
of comparable quality, regardless of gender.
"Intercollegiate Sports" includes men's and women's basketball,
tennis, rodeo, indoor and outdoor track and cross country, men's
football, and women's volleyball, golf, and alpine and nordic skiing.
"Minority Equity" means, for student athletes, access to comparable
athletic resources and support regardless of status as a member of a
minority group as defined by Executive Order 11246.
"Participants" means the student athletes on a team on the first day
of competition. As the Department of Education clarifies its
reporting requirements under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act,
this definition will be adjusted as necessary to conform to the
federal definition.
"Substantial proportionality" means having the percentage of women and
men participating in intercollegiate athletics, as determined by a
running average of participants over time, with no consistent
deviations, within 5 percent of the enrollment of women and
men in the undergraduate student body, based on the average percent
enrollment of male and female undergraduate students.
"Title IX Compliance" means accommodating the athletic interests and
abilities of both men and women to the extent necessary to provide
equal athletic opportunity as determined by one of the following: (Part 1)
whether opportunities to participate in intercollegiate
athletics are provided in numbers substantially proportionate to
respective enrollments of male and female students in the
undergraduate population, or (Part 2) whether the institution can show
a history and continuing practice of program expansion which is
demonstrably responsive to the developing interests and abilities of
the sex under-represented among intercollegiate athletes, or (Part 3)
whether the institution can demonstrate that the interests and
abilities of the members of the sex under-represented in
intercollegiate athletics have been fully and effectively accommodated
by the present athletics program.
"Undergraduate Student Body/Undergraduate Enrollment" means the number
of full time students pursuing a baccalaureate degree from Montana
State University-Bozeman including students working on a second
bachelor's degree but excluding individuals enrolled as non-degree
graduate students.
Part I: Gender Equity
The University's commitment to gender equity in intercollegiate athletics
is based on recommendations of the Gender Equity
Subcommittee of the Athletics Committee, and on previous informal
documents developed by Cathy Schick and Doug Fullerton. These
documents are available in the NCAA Self-Study.
In July 1993, the University merged the Department of Women's
Athletics and the Department of Men's Athletics into a combined
Department of Athletics. Since then, the University has made
significant strides toward gender equity in its intercollegiate
athletic programs, including:
- adding women's golf and women's skiing to the University's
intercollegiate sports programs. Women's golf and skiing, with
alpine competitors only, were added in FY94; skiing, with nordic
competitors, was added in FY96,
- appointing a Gender Equity Subcommittee to the Athletics
Committee,
- increasing women student athletes' access to coaching by adding
a full time assistant coach in women's basketball, a restricted
earnings coach in volleyball, and part time coaches in women's
tennis, skiing, and track,
- improving facilities for women student athletes by renovating
and assigning a designated locker room to the women's volleyball
and women's basketball teams,
- improving media guides and game programs for women's volleyball
and women's basketball,
- equalizing radio, TV, and print advertising budgets for men's
and women's basketball,
- assigning donated vehicles to the women's volleyball and
basketball coaches, and
- easing the FTE of existing Sports Information personnel and
charging them to publicize men's and women's sports equally.
The Task Force studied current rates of women's participation in
intercollegiate athletics to establish a baseline against which the
effectiveness of actions proposed in this Plan can be evaluated in the
future. In FY95, women were 37.3% of sports competitors, received
35.83% of the number of scholarships awarded, comprised 34.42% of
those student athletes receiving aid, and received 35.54% of the total
aid awarded. Figure 1. shows the enrollment of full time
undergraduate students for Fall 1991 through Fall 1995. The enrollment
of women averages 44%.
Figure 1: Full Time Undergraduate Enrollment by Sex, Fall 1992 - Fall
1995
TOTAL ----MEN---- ---WOMEN---
# % # %
Fall 1991 8152 4552 55.8 3600 44.2
Spring 1992 7965 4486 56.3 3479 43.7
Fall 1992 8529 4852 56.9 3677 43.1
Spring 1993 8058 4563 56.6 3495 43.4
Fall 1993 8678 4856 56.0 3822 44.0
Spring 1994 8082 4547 56.3 3535 43.7
Fall 1994 8672 4834 55.7 3838 44.3
Spring 1995 8046 4506 56.0 3540 44.0
Fall 1995 8936 5025 56.2 3911 43.8
Figure 2 shows participation in intercollegiate sports, including
rodeo, over the past four years and compares numbers of student
athletes on the squad to those who actually competed.
Figure 2: Participation of Women and Men in Intercollegiate Sports
Academic Years 1992-1995
AY92 AY93 AY94 AY95
Squad* Comp* Squad Comp Squad Comp Squad Comp
Women's Sports
Basketball 15 12 16 12 14 12 14 13
Golf -- -- -- -- 8 8 7 8
Rodeo 6 6 10 10 7 7 9 9
Skiing -- -- -- -- 13 7 12 12
Track/XC 46 44 65 52 71 55 69 58
Tennis 9 7 9 7 12 12 12 10
Volleyball 13 12 15 11 18 16 15 12
Subtotal 89 81 115 92 143 117 138 122
Men's Sports
Basketball 11 11 11 11 12 12 13 10
Football 93 60 100 62 104 58 91 64
Rodeo 11 9 14 14 24 24 21 21
Track/XC 167 102 177 114 187 113 118 99
Tennis 9 8 10 10 17 10 12 11
Subtotal 291 190 312 211 344 217 255 205
Total 380 271 427 303 487 334 393 237
Percent Women 23.4% 29.9% 26.9% 30.4% 29.4% 35.0% 35.1% 37.3%
Difference* 20.6% 14.1% 16.5% 12.9% 14.5% 8.9% 9.1% 6.9%
*Squad means the number of participants on the first day of competition.
*Comps means the number of competitors who competed in an event or contest.
*Difference means the percent of women's participation subtracted from their
actual percentage enrollment.
Figure 3 shows
the number of student athletes per sport in FY96 compared to the
number of scholarship equivalencies awarded in the same year.
Figure 3: NCAA Scholarship Limits vs. Actual Scholarship Equivalencies Awarded
----MEN---- ---WOMEN---
Max* 94-95 Max 94-95
Football 63.0 57.0 --- ---
Basketball 13.0 13.0 15.0 14.0
Volleyball --- --- 12.0 12.0
Tennis 4.4 4.4 8.0 4.0
XC/Track 12.6 12.5 18.0* 13.8
Golf --- --- 6.0 3.8
Skiing --- --- 7.0 3.5
TOTAL NCAA 93.0 86.9 66.0 50.8
Rodeo 5.4** 5.4 3.0** 2.0
GRAND TOTAL 98.4 92.3 69.0 53.1
Difference 6.1 15.9
* Includes proposed 2.0 equivalencies to be added to
women's cross country/track.
** Maximum established by athletic administration.
NCAA/MSU maximum equivalencies 167.4
Current total equivalencies awarded 145.4
Difference 22.0
Current equiv for men/max for women 161.5
Current total equivalences awarded 145.4
Difference 15.9
Of the current equivalencies awarded, 63.5% are given to men and
36.5% to women. Under the plan, increasing equivalencies to maximum
for women, 57.2% would be given to men and 42.8% to women.
As the foregoing statistics illustrate, the University has a
continuing practice of expanding athletic participation opportunities
for women by increasing the number of sports offered and the number of
participation opportunities. The Task Force believes that the
University has met Part 2 of the three part test of Title IX
compliance in athletics. The next challenge is to achieve substantial
proportionality of athletic opportunities by (1) ensuring that the quality
of participation opportunities is equal for men and women and (2)
assessing the feasibility of modifying existing sports offerings and
making appropriate changes.
Therefore, this Plan establishes specific goals and objectives, to be
implemented from FY96 through FY99, that will ensure that similar
sports programs are treated equally and student athletes receive equal
access to resources, regardless of gender. It recognizes that the
University may need to modify its sports offerings in order to achieve
substantial proportionality and recommends procedures for reviewing
intercollegiate sports offerings. It also makes provisions for the
ongoing assessment of gender equity and for accommodating the
evolving standards of the NCAA in this area.
Gender Equity Goals
To promote gender equity, MSU-Bozeman will:
- I.
- Support current sports to ensure that teams have the opportunity to
be competitive in their conferences.
- By:
- 1.
- Establishing specific annual and long range goals for each
sport.
Each coach has the ultimate goal of winning the conference
championship and/or qualifying the team for the NCAA or
other national competitions. Coaches will be required to
develop, for their sport, a set of clearly defined annual
and long range goals which specify optimal squad size,
recruiting expectations, and competitive goals and take into
account existing resource constraints.
- Measure of Success: Each coach will have a set of clearly defined and understood goals
for his or her sport identifying optimal squad size, participant and
scholarship goals, competitive goals, recuiting expectations and budget,
equipment and facilities constraints.
- Target Date: Annually.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and coaches.
- 2.
- Determining optimal squad size and athlete-to-coach
ratios for each sport and adjusting the numbers of participants or
increasing coaches to those levels.
Optimal squad size will be based on the following factors:
(a) the number of competitors and diversity of talent
necessary to win the conference championship and/or qualify
the team for the NCAA national competitions(b) the
capability of the coaching staff to provide quality
instruction and properly manage safety, average conference
and national squad sizes and coach-athlete ratios,
recruitment area, and special recruitment challenges.
- Measure of Success: Optimal squad sizes will be determined and reported to the
Athletics Committee. Participants will be decreased or increased to predetermined optimal
levels. Coaches will be hired to predetermined optimal levels.
- Target Date: Optimal squad sizes will be determined during Summer 1996. Numbers
of participants and coaches will be phased in from FY97-FY99.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and coaches.
- 3.
- Increasing scholarship equivalencies in women's sports to the
maximums allowed by the NCAA.
Equity in athletic aid will be based on fully funding
scholarship equivalencies for all sports to the NCAA
maximums. Bringing existing women's programs to maximum
equivalencies will require the addition of approximately 16 scholarship
equivalencies. This objective will be phased in over five
years, beginning in FY97, and will require an estimated
cumulative total of $500,000, based estimated average of
FY97 costs for tuition, fees, books, room and board.
- Measure of Success: Women student athletes in current sports will have full equivalencies
measured to a deviation of +/- 5% by adding approximately 16 scholarship equivalencies.
- Target Date: Phase in from FY97-FY99.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and University administration.
- 4.
- Expanding the recruitment of women student athletes by increasing
budgets and expanding recruitment out-of-state.
Recruitment budgets will reflect the resources needed to
attract the quality and quantity of students needed to
position women's teams to be able to compete successfully in
their conferences.
- Measure of Success: Women's teams will have increased numbers
of out-of-state participants, particularly in tennis and track.
- Target Date: Phased in over four years.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and coaches.
- II.
- Establish consistent, non-discriminatory practices for the
administration of intercollegiate athletics.
- By:
- 1.
- Developing and implementing consistent policies for travel, per
diem, and recruiting.
- Measure of Success: Policies are developed and remain consistent
for similar sports. Discrepancies are equalized.
- Target Date: FY97.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration.
- 2.
- Fully integrating equipment management functions.
- Measure of Success: Purchasing and equipment policies will
be written and defined. Equipment management will be integrated and
conform to policies.
- Target Date: FY97.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration, equipment managers,
coaches and staff.
- 3.
- Developing a salary administration plan for coaches.
- Measure of Success: A written plan will be developed and used
in setting salaries for new hires and in adjusting salaries for current
coaches.
- Target Date: FY97.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration.
- 4.
- Continuing efforts to recruit and hire qualified women coaches.
- Measure of Success: Contacts with sucessful women coaches in
other conferences will be made. Search committees will be encouraged to identify
and recruit women coaches.
- Target Date: As necessary.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and Affirmative Action.
- III.
- Work to increase awareness of and interest in women's sports.
- By:
- 1.
- Increasing media coverage of women's sports.
The athletic administration will explore strategies such as
including an "MSU Women's Sports Minute" on Cat Chat,
reinstating weekly press conferences, providing additional
coverage for women's Fall sports, and exploring media
interest in broadcasting women's basketball away games.
- Measure of Success: A written plan for implementing strategies for increasing media
coverage of women's sports will be developed and approved. An annual
report on activities to implement the plan will be made to the Director
of Athletics and the Athletics Committee.
- Target Date: FY96.
- Responsibility: Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing and
Promotions, Sports Information Directors, Director of Athletics.
- 2.
- Developing and implementing plans to increase attendance at
women's games.
The athletic administration will develop strategies to
increase attendance at women's games and contests such as
adding a "family all-sports" pass to booster packages and
developing targeted marketing strategies.
- Measure of Success: Implementation of strategies during FY96.
- Target Date: FY96.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration.
- IV.
- Adopt clear procedures for modifying the University's sports
offerings in the future.
- By:
- 1.
- Assessing student interest in athletics and basing future
modifications to the University's sports offerings, in part,
on that assessment.
- Measure of Success: Students will be surveyed and results analyzed.
- Target Date: September 1997.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration.
- 2.
- Developing criteria for evaluating sports offerings and review
current sports for continuance and new sports for addition
according to those criteria.
Criteria might include: spectator interest, availability of
qualified coaches, availability and proximity of
intercollegiate competition, costs, availability and
condition of practice and competition facilities, impact on
other programs, capacity to generate external support, and
ability to compete successfully given existing resource
constraints.
- Measure of Success: Establishing non-discriminatory criteria
for the review of intercollegiate sports offerings.
- Target Date: FY97.
- Responsibility: Athletic Committee, athletics administration.
- 3.
- Establishing participation baseline information at AY96 levels and
annually reporting changes in participation and scholarship
equivalencies measured against this baseline.
1996 baseline data are included in this Plan as Figure 7.
Coaches will provide the athletic administration with
accurate lists of participants on the first day of
competition. These figures will be reported annually to the
Athletics Committee.
- Measure of Success: Annual reports of changes in participation levels and scholarship
equivalencies measured against this baseline and the previous year will
be submitted to the Athletics Committee.
- Target Date: FY96.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration
- 4.
- Ensuring that decisions to modify the University's sports
offerings are the product of broad-based discussions with
the University's sports constituencies.
Intercollegiate athletics has many constituencies including
the Athletics Committee, Booster organizations, student
government, alumni, and the University administration which
must provide input to any decision to modify the
University's current sports offerings.
- Measure of Success: Campus and community constituencies, including
ASMSU, Boosters organizations, Faculty Council, and Alumni, will be contacted
and involved in decisions to modify sports offerings.
- Target Date: FY98 and as appropriate.
- Responsibility: Athletics administration, University administration.
Part II: Minority Equity
Documents which establish the University's commitments to
multicultural diversity and minority achievement are the Board of
Regents Minority Achievement Policy, Policies and Procedures Manual,
Section 1902; the Role and Scope Statement of Montana State
University-Bozeman, and the Campus Action Plan to Promote Diversity
and Increase Minority Participation at Montana State University. The
Task Force agrees with the system and institutional goals identified
in these documents and urges the University to devote greater efforts
to their accomplishment.
The purpose of this Plan is to ensure that the University is in
substantial conformity with the operating principle of the NCAA
regarding equitable opportunities for minority student athletes and
athletics staff. To understand where the institution faces challenges
in the area of minority equity, the Task Force reviewed the NCAA
self-study, interviewed current and past student athletes and coaches,
and also studied population, enrollment and graduation statistics.
Figures 5 and 6 show some of the results of this study and reveal
important facts regarding minority students on campus and in the
athletic department:
- The undergraduate student body is predominately white and
slightly less diverse than the population of the state and the
population of student athletes.
- Student athletes comprise approximately 5% of the undergraduate
student population.
- Minority students comprise approximately 5% of the undergraduate
student population and approximately 10% of the population of
student athletes.
- The mix of ethnic background is dramatically different for the
population of student athletes and the undergraduate student
body. African American students comprise 0.4% of the overall
minority population but 5.8% of student athletes. American
Indian students comprise 2.3% of the overall undergraduate
population but only 1.5% of the student athletes.
- Eighty percent (80%) of Black undergraduate students are student
athletes.
- Most minority student athletes are men. Minority student
athletes comprise 13% of the population of male student athletes
but only 3.6% of the female student athletes.
- Four (4) of the 30 Black undergraduate students are women; no
black student athletes are women.
An examination of graduation rates found that student athletes in
general and minority student athletes graduate at slightly higher
rates than the general student population. The graduation rate of
Black student athletes is also positive when compared to other schools
in the Conference.
The Task Force recognizes that Black students in the Department of
Athletics are the most publicized minority on campus and often carry
a disproportionate responsibility for how minorities, in general are
perceived. The Task Force also recognizes that adjustment to the
campus and community is often difficult for minority students. These
facts mean that the Department of Athletics must take the lead in
helping minority student athletes adjust to the University environment
and Montana culture.
The Department of Athletics takes its responsibilities in this regard
seriously. Among the activities undertaken to ensure that
opportunities for minority students and staff are equitable are:
- increasing efforts to recruit qualified minority coaches,
resulting, at various times, in the hiring of African-American
assistant coaches in football and men's basketball,
- orienting student athletes to the financial aid application
process,
- ending the requirement that student athletes live in the
residence halls after their freshman year, and
- hiring a half time academic counselor for student athletes.
Figure 5: Population and Enrollment of Ethnic Minorities
Montana Census MSU-Bozeman MSU Athletic
Estimates, Undergraduates, Participants,
July 1992 Fall 1995 Fall 1995
# % # % # %
Asian 4,529 0.55 70 0.85 3 0.73
Black 2,217 0.27 30 0.36 24 5.84
Hispanic 13,372 1.63 98 1.18 7 1.70
Native American 47,947 5.83 189 2.28 6 1.46
White 754,282 91.72 7,876 95.31 371 90.27
Total 822,347 8,263 411
Figure 6: FY96 Ethnic Breakdown of MSU Athletic Teams
-------------MEN------------- ------------WOMEN------------
Black Asian Hispc NatAm White Black Asian Hispc NatAm White
Football 20 1 0 0 65 -- -- -- -- --
Basketball 4 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 11
Volleyball -- -- -- -- -- 0 0 0 0 16
Tennis 0 1 0 0 11 0 1 0 0 10
XC/Track 0 0 3 3 120 0 0 4 0 71
Golf -- -- -- -- -- 0 0 0 0 9
Skiing -- -- -- -- -- 0 0 0 0 22
Rodeo 0 0 0 2 16 0 0 0 1 12
Total 24 2 3 5 220 0 1 4 1 151
% of Total 9.5% 0.8% 1.2% 2.0% 86.5% 0.0% 0.6% 3.0% 0.6% 96.4%
Total Male Athletes = 253 Total Female Athletes = 157
Male Minority Population = 33 (13.1%) Female Minority Population = 6 (4.0%)
Minority Equity Goals
To promote minority equity, MSU-Bozeman will:
- I.
- Study problems experienced by minority student athletes and
Department of Athletics staff and report findings to the
Athletics Committee and the Executive Council.
- By:
- 1.
- Conducting regular surveys of student athlete satisfaction to
identify problems minority student athletes experience
during their matriculation.
- Measure of Success: Surveys will be conducted and reported to
the Athletics Committee.
- Target Date: Ongoing.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration.
- 2.
- Conducting exit interviews with all student athletes to identify
problems related to intercollegiate athletics.
- Measure of Success: All student athletes will have met with the
Director or Associate Director of Athletics in an exit interview. The
interview instrument will be designed to elicit responses about
problem areas.
- Target Date: Ongoing.
- Responsibility: Athletics administration.
- 3.
- Studying graduation and retention rates for minority student
athletes and comparing these to white student athletes and
the student population in general.
- Measure of Success: Annual studies of graduation and retention
rates will be reported to the Athletics Committee.
- Target Date: Annual.
- Responsibility: Academic Coordinator, Faculty Athletic Representative,
Institutional Research.
- II.
- Improve communication between minority athletes, student athletes,
the athletic administration, the University, and the community.
- By:
- 1.
- Appointing a Student Athlete Issues Task Force and charging
them to analyze the types of problems faced by student
athletes in adjusting to the University and community,
propose solutions to those problems, and report their
findings directly to the Director of Athletics.
A similar task force met during AY94 and advised the
Director of Athletics on problems encountered by student
athletes in adjusting to the campus and community. Problem
identified included racism and intolerance, alcohol abuse,
and violence in domestic relationships. The Task Force
recommended policy changes and sponsored
"administrator-free" conversations between task force
members and student athletes. This objective calls for the
establishment of a similar task force to meet on a regular
basis.
- Measure of Success: The Task Force will identify problems and
propose solutions to the Director of Athletics.
- Target Date: The Task Force will meet at least 3 times a year.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration.
- 2.
- Clearly delineating, for all parties, the expectations that the
University has of its student athletes and that student
athletes have of the University.
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about what
intercollegiate athletics means to the institution and to
those who participate in it. The University recruits, and
in most cases, provides financial assistance for student
athletes in order to be competitive in the Big Sky
Conference and to garner public and booster support for the
institution as a whole. Student athletes compete in
intercollegiate athletics for the institution in order to
continue to play their chosen sports and to gain college
educations. This objective calls upon coaches, athletic
administrators, student athletes, University administrators,
and the campus community to discuss more openly their mutual
expectations.
- Measure of Success: Student athletes, athletic administrators,
and University administrators will meet and share mutual expectations.
- Target Date: At least one meeting will be held per year.
- Responsibility: University administration, athletic administration.
- III.
- Continue efforts to recruit and retain minority athletes and
coaches.
- By:
- 1.
- Continuing efforts to recruit and hire qualified minority coaches.
- Measure of Success: Contacts with successful minority coaches
in other states will be made.
- Target Date: As necessary.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and Affirmative Action.
- 2.
- Ensuring that salaries for minority coaches are competitive.
- Measure of Success: Salary administration plan will be reviewed
to ensure that it is not being applied in a discriminatory fashion and
that special market factors are appropriately considered.
- Target Date: Salary plan completed in FY96, implemented in FY97.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and Affirmative Action.
- 3.
- Increasing efforts to recruit African-American student athletes
in track, volleyball, and women's basketball, and Native
American student athletes in track and rodeo.
Coaches must recruit out-of-state minority athletes in order
to be competitive in the Big Sky Conference; the difficulty
of this task should be more widely recognized. All coaches
should develop plans for recruiting student athletes from
minority populations.
- Measure of Success: Coaches will annually report their minority
recruitment contacts.
- Target Date: Ongoing.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and coaches.
- 4.
- Maintaining current residence living policies which allow student
athletes to live off-campus after their freshman year.
- Measure of Success: Current policy will not change.
- Target Date: FY96.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and sports information staff.
- 5.
- Improving academic support programs for student athletes.
The academic coordinator effort should be increased to 1.0
FTE; the possibility of establishing two part-time
positions should be explored as should developing a
mentoring program within the various colleges.
- Measure of Success: Academic coordinator position will be
increased to 1.0 FTE. Feasibility of mentoring program explored.
- Target Date: FY97.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration.
- 6.
- Ensuring that coaches, athletic administrators, and student
athletes are aware of University resources, available to
them, especially in financial aid, student services, and
disabled student services.
- Measure of Success: Student services official will attend student
athlete orientation sessions. Student services staff will keep track
of numbers of student athletes seen and report this back to athletic
administration.
- Target Date: September 1996.
- Responsibility: Athletic administration and University Student Services personnel.
Part III: Annual Review
The Athletics Committee will assess information regarding gender
equity on an ongoing basis and accommodate evolving NCAA standards in
the area of gender issues. This Plan will be reviewed and updated
annually by the Gender Equity Subcommittee of the Athletics Committee
and the Athletics Committee and shall be reported to the Director of
Athletics, the Vice Provost for Student Affairs, the Human
Resources/Affirmative Action Director, and the President.
Figure 7 establishes the baseline participation based on estimates of
and scholarship equivalency statistics for AY95.
Figure 7: Participation in Intercollegiate Athletics
Participants Equivalencies
Women's Sports
Basketball 14.0 14.0
Golf 7.0 3.8
Rodeo 9.0 2.0
Skiing 12.0 3.2
Track/XC 69.0 13.8
Tennis 12.0 4.0
Volleyball 15.0 12.0
Subtotal 138.0 52.8
Men's Sports
Basketball 13.0 13.0
Football 91.0 57.0
Rodeo 21.0 5.4
Track/XC 118.0 12.5
Tennis 12.0 4.0
Subtotal 393.0 92.3
Percent women's participation - 35.1%
Percent women's equivalencies - 36.5%
Percent men's participation - 64.9%
Percent men's equivalencies - 63.5%
The Director of Athletics shall annually report statistics for
participation and equivalencies so that changes in intercollegiate
athletic participation can be assessed over time. The Director shall
also make the Athletics Committee aware of any evolving standards of
the NCAA. The Athletics Committee shall recommendations to this Plan
necessary to accommodate those standards. Modifications shall be
approved by the President.
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