HBCUs Fail Title IX

Campus Report ^ | February 29, 2008 | Don Irvine

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HBCUs Fail Title IX

by: Don Irvine, February 29, 2008

Compliance with Title IX which can even be a struggle for some of the larger colleges and universities in the country is a particular problem for the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) according to a new study released this week by the College Sports Council.

According to the study there are nearly 212,000 students enrolled at the nation’s HBCUs with 61% being female, meaning that on the average, to comply with Title IX, 61% of all the athletes at these schools should be female. When applying the proportionality test to the athletic programs at these schools the council found that 73 of the 75 schools failed this standard. Only tiny Allen University and Morris College were in compliance.

Of the 73 schools that were out of compliance, the study found that they would have received an “F” from the Women’s Sports Foundation in their latest report card on gender equity in athletics and that the other 43 schools are facing the possibility of lengthy and expensive litigation to bring them into compliance.

The average female athlete gender gap, according to the study, was 20.2% and if all the schools were forced into compliance that would result in a net loss of nearly 3,400 male athletes. In one case, Winston-Salem University in North Carolina would need to shed 123 of its 321 male athletes or 39% of the total. Even larger and better known HBCUs such as Howard University, Florida A & M and Jackson State University would be forced to drop male athletes to fully comply with the law...

[AbeKrieger]

Let’s see how they like the whole concept of quotas and affirmative action tossed in their face. It’s obscene in the job world, it’s obscene in the academic world, and it’s embarrasingly ridiculous in the world of athletics.

[17th Miss Regt]

Pull all their federal funding immediately.

[neodad]

The ugly truth of Title IX is that mid-major schools are having to import foriegn athletes to meet the quotas because they’re are not enough girls in the U.S. that want to play college sports. At the same time, men’s programs are being cut.