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	Research Corner Date of Release: July 29, 2010 The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: Women's National Basketball Association The 2010 WNBA Racial and Gender Report Card received a combined grade for race and gender of an A+ by earning an A+ for gender and an A for race for the second consecutive Report Card. They tied their highest grade ever for gender with 97.5 points out of 100. The WNBA has earned the highest combined grade for any sport in the Racial and Gender Report Card since 2004. The Report Card asks, “Are we playing fair when it comes to sports? Does everyone, regardless of race or gender, have a chance to score a basket and run the team?” Consistently, the answer for the WNBA is an emphatic “yes” with the best record in professional sport. In the 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006‐07, 2008, 2009 and now the 2010 Racial and Gender Report Cards, the WNBA received A’s for their race, gender and combined grades. More... Date of Release: June 9, 2010 The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Basketball Association The NBA continues to set the standard for the industry as the leader on issues related to race and gender hiring practices. As the 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card shows, the National Basketball Association had the best grade among the men’s leagues for race and gender as it has for two decades. The NBA had an A for race, and an A‐ for gender for a combined A. More... Date of Release: May 5, 2010 The Madison Avenue Project: Super Bowl Ads The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has conducted a new study on the racial and gender make-up of creative directors responsible for the advertising spots aired during the 2010 Super Bowl at the request of the Madison Avenue Project, a partnership between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Mehri & Skalet, PLLC. This report seeks to explain the current disparity in hiring practices that exists in the advertising industry regarding race and gender. The data, both quantitative and qualitative, yielded startling outcomes. More... Date of Release: April 29, 2010 The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball Major League Baseball had its best year ever with continued improvement of its record on the issue of racial and gender hiring practices. This remains especially true in the League's Central Offices and in the positions of manager and general manager where Commissioner Bud Selig has the most direct influence. Baseball received an A for race and a B for gender in the 2010 Report. In 2009, Baseball received its first ever A in race and a B for gender after receiving an A- for race and a C+ for gender in the 2008 Report Card. More... Date of Release: March 31, 2010 The 2009 Complete Racial and Gender Report Card This is the 17th issue of the Racial and Gender Report Card (RGRC), which is the definitive assessment of hiring practices of women and people of color in most of the leading professional and amateur sports and sporting organizations in the United Sates. The report considers the composition – assessed by racial and gender makeup – of players, coaches and front office/athletic department employees in our country’s leading sports organizations, including the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), as well as in collegiate athletics departments. More... Date of Release: March 24, 2010 The 2010 Men and Women Sweet 16 Study The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released a new study on the Graduation Success Rates and Academic Progress Rates of the teams in the men’s and women’s Sweet 16. It is a follow‐up to its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for 2010 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams,” which compared graduation success and academic progress rates for Division I teams that had been selected for the men’s and women’s brackets of the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournaments. More... Date of Release: March 16, 2010 The 2010 Division I Women vs. Men College Basketball Study The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Academic Progress/Graduation Success Rate Study of Division I NCAA Women’s and Men’s Basketball Tournament Teams,” which compare graduation rates for Division I teams that have been selected for the men’s and women’s brackets of the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournaments. The study examines the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and the Academic Progress Rates (APR) for the tournament teams. The study compares the academic performance of male and female basketball student‐athletes and of African‐American and white basketball student‐athletes. More... Date of Release: March 15, 2010 The 2010 Division I Men's College Basketball Study The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2010 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams” which is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament-bound teams. The study examines the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for the tournament teams as reported by the NCAA. The study also compares the performance in the classroom for African-American and white basketball student-athletes. More... Date of Release: March 11, 2010 The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sport Every other year, the NCAA releases a new NCAA Race and Gender Demographics of NCAA Member Conferences Personnel Report and NCAA Race and Gender Demographics of NCAA Member Institutions Athletic Personnel. In previous years, these reports were used to examine the racial and gender demographics of NCAA head and assistant coaches, athletics directors across all divisions, associate and assistant athletics directors, senior woman administrators, academic advisors, compliance coordinators and managers for business development, fund‐raising, facilities, marketing, ticket sales and media relations and an array of assistants and support staff. This year represented the in‐between year in terms of the NCAA releasing racial and gender demographic data via these reports. Lacking these NCAA‐issued reports, The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES) was unable to issue College Sport a new overall grade for 2009. The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card for College Sport showed that NCAA member institutions and their conferences lost ground for both their record for gender hiring practices and hiring practices by race. In fact, college sport had the lowest grade for racial hiring practices in 2008. More... Date of Release: December 7, 2009 The 2009-2010 College Football Bowl Study Overall academic progress continued while the gap between white and African‐American football student‐athletes increased slightly for the 67* Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools (formerly known as Division I‐A schools) playing in this year’s college football bowl games according to a study released today by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida. Richard Lapchick, the Director of TIDES and the primary author of the study noted that, “The academic success of big time college student‐athletes that grew continuously under the leadership of the late Dr. Myles Brand continued this year and will be part of his legacy. The new study shows additional progress and reinforces the success of Dr. Brand’s academic reform package. This year, 91 percent (61 of the 67 schools), the same as in the 2008‐09 report and up from 88 percent in the 2007‐08 report, had at least a 50 percent graduation rate for their football teams; approximately 90 percent of the teams received a score of more than 925 on the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) versus 88 percent in the 2008‐09 report.” More... Date of Release: November 24, 2009 The 2008 Complete Racial and Gender Report Card This is the 16th issue of the Racial and Gender Report Card (RGRC), which is the definitive assessment of hiring practices of women and people of color in most of the leading professional and amateur sports and sporting organizations in the United Sates. The report considers the composition – assessed by racial and gender makeup – of players, coaches and front office/athletic department employees in our country’s leading sports organizations, including the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), as well as in collegiate athletics departments. More... Date of Release: November 17, 2009 The 2009-2010 Division I Campus Leadership Study The key leadership positions at Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools and conferences remained overwhelmingly white and male even though there was a record number of nine head coaches of color in the 2009 college football season at the FBS schools (formerly Division IA) according to a new study released today by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida. For 2009, there were seven African‐Americans (Turner Gill, University at Buffalo; Ron English, Eastern Michigan University; Kevin Sumlin, University of Houston; Randy Shannon, University of Miami (Florida), Mike Haywood, Miami University (Ohio); Mike Locksley, University of New Mexico; DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State University); a Latino (Mario Cristobal, Florida International University) and an Asian (Ken Niumatalolo, U.S. Naval Academy). More... Date of Release: October 20, 2009 The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: MLS The 2009 Major League Soccer Racial and Gender Report Card resulted in continued outstanding results for MLS regarding racial hiring practices and another significant improvement in gender hiring practices. MLS earned a third consecutive solid A (92) for racial hiring after getting A’s in the categories of MLS League Office, players, head coaches, team president/CEO and team professional administration. Thiswas, again, the second best grade in men’s professional sport following the NBA for racial hiringpractices. More... Date of Release: September 24, 2009 The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: NFL The National Football League achieved an A‐ grade on racial hiring practices and a C on gender hiring practices in the 2009 NFL Racial and Gender Report Card. This gave the NFL a combined B. In the history of the NFL Racial and Gender Report Card, those are the best grades ever received in each category for the NFL. The NFL improved significantly from the previous report from a score for race of 87.1 to 89.2 points out of 100. More... Date of Release: July 23, 2009 The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: Women's National Basketball Association The Report Card asks, “Are we playing fair when it comes to sports? Does everyone, regardless of race or gender, have a chance to score a basket and run the team?” Consistently, the answer for the WNBA is an emphatic “yes” with the best record in sport. In the 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Racial and Gender Report Cards, the WNBA had received A’s for their race, gender and combined grades. To this day, no other professional sports league has achieved that even once. The WNBA remained as the best employer overall for women and people of color in sport. More... Date of Release: June 10, 2009 The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Basketball Association The NBA remains the industry leader on issues related to race and gender hiring practices according to the Racial and Gender Report Card for the National Basketball Association for the 2008‐09 season. The NBA has had the best grade among the men’s leagues for race for two decades. The NBA had an A+ for race, and a B+/A‐ for gender for a combined A. More... Date of Release: April 22, 2009 Scoring the Hire: BCA Hiring Report Card for Women's College Basketball The publication of this year’s Women’s Basketball Hiring Report Card presents the opportunity to both evaluate this year’s hiring processes and, for the first time, evaluate any progress made in the findings from the first to second year of the study. Among the several encouraging signs from this year’s report card, our evaluation indicates that universities appear more committed to conducting an inclusive interview and hiring process. More than half of the 16 available head coaching positions were filled by African-Americans and all but two universities received an ‘A’ grade in the final analysis. More... Date of Release: April 15, 2009 The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball Major League Baseball continued improving its record on the issue of racial and gender hiring practices. This is especially true in the League’s Central Offices and in the positions of manager and general manager where Commissioner Bud Selig has the most direct influence. Baseball received it first ever full A for race and a B for gender. MLB received an A‐ for race and a C+ for gender in the 2008 Report Card More... Date of Release: April 6, 2009 Improved Graduation Rates for African-American Student Athletes The new study examined graduation cohorts of students who entered school between 1984 and 2001. The Institute looked at the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rates and the Federal Graduation Rates and compared them to the overall student body graduation rates of students in the federal graduation rates. Richard Lapchick, Director of TIDES, was the author of the study. Lapchick commented, “I have been studying graduation rates for more than 20 years. The low rates for African‐American student‐athletes have always been my biggest concern. The improvement shown in this study is impressive. The increases in the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) for African‐American student‐athletes in the revenue sports were five percentage points in men’s basketball to 54 percent and women’s basketball to 76 percent, respectively, and four percentage points to 58 percent in Division I‐A football in the three years since the initial study. That is substantial and is very good news for college sport.” More... Date of Release: March 17, 2009 The 2009 Division I Women's College Basketball Study The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2009 NCAA Women’s and Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams,” which compares graduation success rates for Division I teams that have been selected for the women’s and men’s brackets of the 2009 NCAA Basketball Tournaments. More... Date of Release: March 16, 2009 The 2009 Division I Men's College Basketball Study The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams” which is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament‐bound teams. The study examines the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for the tournament teams as reported by the NCAA. The study also compares the performance in the classroom for African‐American and white basketball student‐athletes. More... Date of Release: February 19, 2009 The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sport The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card for College Sport showed that NCAA member institutions and their conferences lost ground for both their record for gender hiring practices and hiring practices by race. In fact, college sport had the lowest grade for racial hiring practices in 2008. More... Date of Release: December 8, 2008 The 2008-2009 College Football Bowl Study Overall academic progress continued while the gap between white and African‐American football student‐athletes increased slightly for the 68 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools (formerly known as Division I‐A schools) playing in this year’s college football bowl games according to a study released today by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida. More... Date of Release: November 6, 2008 The 2008-2009 Division I Campus Leadership Study With the firing of Ty Willingham at the University of Washington and the resignation of Ron Prince at Kansas State, the 2008 regular season of college football will conclude with the controversy over the poor record of hiring African-American Division IA (Football Bowl Subdivision – FBS) head football coaches still continuing to make headlines. Their departure will leave only four African-American and two other head coaches of color. College football is still far behind other college and professional sports. More... Date of Release: September 24, 2008 The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Soccer The 2008 Major League Soccer Racial and Gender Report Card resulted in continued outstanding results for MLS regarding racial hiring practices and a huge improvement in gender hiring practices. More... Date of Release: March 27, 2008 Scoring the Hire: BCA Hiring Report Card for Women's College Basketball 2008 Title IX has been the driving force that has contributed to the exposure and success of women’s sport on the collegiate level. The success of women’s sport has been an outstanding catalyst for the equality of women in modern day society as a whole. Females are finally getting the credit they deserve for their athletic prowess. Since Title IX in 1972, the number of women’s collegiate teams has increased exponentially but the number of women leading the teams as the coach has decreased dramatically. In 1972 nearly 90 percent of women’s collegiate teams were coached by women. According to the most recent College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card, only 41 percent of Division I women’s college teams are led by female head coaches. Specifically in basketball, 87 percent of the coaches were white and only nine percent were African-American women. That stands in stark contrast to the nearly 44 percent of the student athletes playing Division I women’s basketball who were African-American. More... Date of Release: October 24, 2007 The 2007-2008 Division I Campus Leadership Study As the 2007 regular season of college football passes the halfway point, the controversy over having only six African-American Division IA head football coaches continues to make headlines. While this was an improvement over the five African-American head coaches during the 2006 season, it is still far behind other college and professional sports. At the end of the 2006 season, an African-American and a Latino (Randy Shannon and Mario Cristobal) were hired as head coaches at the University of Miami (Florida) and Florida International University respectively. In the case of FIU, it marked the first time that a school had a Latino president, athletics director and head football coach. More...

Research Corner

Date of Release: July 29, 2010
The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: Women's National Basketball Association

The 2010 WNBA Racial and Gender Report Card received a combined grade for race and gender of an A+ by earning an A+ for gender and an A for race for the second consecutive Report Card. They tied their highest grade ever for gender with 97.5 points out of 100. The WNBA has earned the highest combined grade for any sport in the Racial and Gender Report Card since 2004.

The Report Card asks, “Are we playing fair when it comes to sports? Does everyone, regardless of race or gender, have a chance to score a basket and run the team?” Consistently, the answer for the WNBA is an emphatic “yes” with the best record in professional sport.

In the 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006‐07, 2008, 2009 and now the 2010 Racial and Gender Report Cards, the WNBA received A’s for their race, gender and combined grades.
More...

Date of Release: June 9, 2010
The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Basketball Association

The NBA continues to set the standard for the industry as the leader on issues related to race and gender hiring practices. As the 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card shows, the National Basketball Association had the best grade among the men’s leagues for race and gender as it has for two decades.

The NBA had an A for race, and an A‐ for gender for a combined A.
More...

Date of Release: May 5, 2010
The Madison Avenue Project: Super Bowl Ads

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has conducted a new study on the racial and gender make-up of creative directors responsible for the advertising spots aired during the 2010 Super Bowl at the request of the Madison Avenue Project, a partnership between the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Mehri & Skalet, PLLC.

This report seeks to explain the current disparity in hiring practices that exists in the advertising industry regarding race and gender. The data, both quantitative and qualitative, yielded startling outcomes.
More...

Date of Release: April 29, 2010
The 2010 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball had its best year ever with continued improvement of its record on the issue of racial and gender hiring practices. This remains especially true in the League's Central Offices and in the positions of manager and general manager where Commissioner Bud Selig has the most direct influence. Baseball received an A for race and a B for gender in the 2010 Report. In 2009, Baseball received its first ever A in race and a B for gender after receiving an A- for race and a C+ for gender in the 2008 Report Card.
More...

Date of Release: March 31, 2010
The 2009 Complete Racial and Gender Report Card

This is the 17th issue of the Racial and Gender Report Card (RGRC), which is the definitive assessment of hiring practices of women and people of color in most of the leading professional and amateur sports and sporting organizations in the United Sates. The report considers the composition – assessed by racial and gender makeup – of players, coaches and front office/athletic department employees in our country’s leading sports organizations, including the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), as well as in collegiate athletics departments.
More...

Date of Release: March 24, 2010
The 2010 Men and Women Sweet 16 Study

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released a new study on the Graduation Success Rates and Academic Progress Rates of the teams in the men’s and women’s Sweet 16. It is a follow‐up to its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for 2010 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams,” which compared graduation success and academic progress rates for Division I teams that had been selected for the men’s and women’s brackets of the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournaments.
More...

Date of Release: March 16, 2010
The 2010 Division I Women vs. Men College Basketball Study

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Academic Progress/Graduation Success Rate Study of Division I NCAA Women’s and Men’s Basketball Tournament Teams,” which compare graduation rates for Division I teams that have been selected for the men’s and women’s brackets of the 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournaments. The study examines the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and the Academic Progress Rates (APR) for the tournament teams. The study compares the academic performance of male and female basketball student‐athletes and of African‐American and white basketball student‐athletes.
More...

Date of Release: March 15, 2010
The 2010 Division I Men's College Basketball Study

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2010 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams” which is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament-bound teams. The study examines the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for the tournament teams as reported by the NCAA. The study also compares the performance in the classroom for African-American and white basketball student-athletes.
More...

Date of Release: March 11, 2010
The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sport

Every other year, the NCAA releases a new NCAA Race and Gender Demographics of NCAA Member Conferences Personnel Report and NCAA Race and Gender Demographics of NCAA Member Institutions Athletic Personnel. In previous years, these reports were used to examine the racial and gender demographics of NCAA head and assistant coaches, athletics directors across all divisions, associate and assistant athletics directors, senior woman administrators, academic advisors, compliance coordinators and managers for business development, fund‐raising, facilities, marketing, ticket sales and media relations and an array of assistants and support staff. This year represented the in‐between year in terms of the NCAA releasing racial and gender demographic data via these reports. Lacking these NCAA‐issued reports, The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES) was unable to issue College Sport a new overall grade for 2009.

The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card for College Sport showed that NCAA member institutions and their conferences lost ground for both their record for gender hiring practices and hiring practices by race. In fact, college sport had the lowest grade for racial hiring practices in 2008.
More...

Date of Release: December 7, 2009
The 2009-2010 College Football Bowl Study

Overall academic progress continued while the gap between white and African‐American football student‐athletes increased slightly for the 67* Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools (formerly known as Division I‐A schools) playing in this year’s college football bowl games according to a study released today by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida.

Richard Lapchick, the Director of TIDES and the primary author of the study noted that, “The academic success of big time college student‐athletes that grew continuously under the leadership of the late Dr. Myles Brand continued this year and will be part of his legacy. The new study shows additional progress and reinforces the success of Dr. Brand’s academic reform package. This year, 91 percent (61 of the 67 schools), the same as in the 2008‐09 report and up from 88 percent in the 2007‐08 report, had at least a 50 percent graduation rate for their football teams; approximately 90 percent of the teams received a score of more than 925 on the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) versus 88 percent in the 2008‐09 report.”
More...

Date of Release: November 24, 2009
The 2008 Complete Racial and Gender Report Card

This is the 16th issue of the Racial and Gender Report Card (RGRC), which is the definitive assessment of hiring practices of women and people of color in most of the leading professional and amateur sports and sporting organizations in the United Sates. The report considers the composition – assessed by racial and gender makeup – of players, coaches and front office/athletic department employees in our country’s leading sports organizations, including the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), as well as in collegiate athletics departments.
More...

Date of Release: November 17, 2009
The 2009-2010 Division I Campus Leadership Study

The key leadership positions at Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools and conferences remained overwhelmingly white and male even though there was a record number of nine head coaches of color in the 2009 college football season at the FBS schools (formerly Division IA) according to a new study released today by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida.

For 2009, there were seven African‐Americans (Turner Gill, University at Buffalo; Ron English, Eastern Michigan University; Kevin Sumlin, University of Houston; Randy Shannon, University of Miami (Florida), Mike Haywood, Miami University (Ohio); Mike Locksley, University of New Mexico; DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State University); a Latino (Mario Cristobal, Florida International University) and an Asian (Ken Niumatalolo, U.S. Naval Academy).
More...

Date of Release: October 20, 2009
The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: MLS

The 2009 Major League Soccer Racial and Gender Report Card resulted
in continued outstanding results for MLS regarding racial hiring practices and another significant improvement in gender hiring practices.

MLS earned a third consecutive solid A (92) for racial hiring after getting A’s in the categories of MLS League Office, players, head coaches, team president/CEO and team professional administration. Thiswas, again, the second best grade in men’s professional sport following the NBA for racial hiringpractices.
More...

Date of Release: September 24, 2009
The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: NFL

The National Football League achieved an A‐ grade on racial hiring practices and a C on gender hiring practices in the 2009 NFL Racial and Gender Report Card. This gave the NFL a combined B. In the history of the NFL Racial and Gender Report Card, those are the best grades ever received in each category for the NFL.

The NFL improved significantly from the previous report from a score for race of 87.1 to 89.2 points out of 100.
More...

Date of Release: July 23, 2009
The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: Women's National Basketball Association

In the 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2006 Racial and Gender Report Cards, the WNBA had received A’s for their race, gender and combined grades. To this day, no other professional sports league has achieved that even once.

The WNBA remained as the best employer overall for women and people of color in sport.
More...

Date of Release: June 10, 2009
The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: National Basketball Association

The NBA remains the industry leader on issues related to race and gender
hiring practices according to the Racial and Gender Report Card for the National Basketball Association for the 2008‐09 season. The NBA has had the best grade among the men’s leagues for race for two decades.

The NBA had an A+ for race, and a B+/A‐ for gender for a combined A.
More...

Date of Release: April 22, 2009
Scoring the Hire: BCA Hiring Report Card for Women's College Basketball

The publication of this year’s Women’s Basketball Hiring Report Card presents the opportunity to both evaluate this year’s hiring processes and, for the first time, evaluate any progress made in the findings from the first to second year of the study. Among the several encouraging signs from this year’s report card, our evaluation indicates that universities appear more committed to conducting an inclusive interview and hiring process. More than half of the 16 available head coaching positions were filled by African-Americans and all but two universities received an ‘A’ grade in the final analysis.
More...

Date of Release: April 15, 2009
The 2009 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball continued improving its record on the issue of racial and gender hiring practices. This is especially true in the League’s Central Offices and in the positions of manager and general manager where Commissioner Bud Selig has the most direct influence. Baseball received it first ever full A for race and a B for gender. MLB received an A‐ for race and a C+ for gender in the 2008 Report Card
More...

Date of Release: April 6, 2009
Improved Graduation Rates for African-American Student Athletes

The new study examined graduation cohorts of students who entered school between 1984 and 2001. The Institute looked at the NCAA’s Graduation Success Rates and the Federal Graduation Rates and compared them to the overall student body graduation rates of students in the federal graduation rates. Richard Lapchick, Director of TIDES, was the author of the study.

Lapchick commented, “I have been studying graduation rates for more than 20 years. The low rates for African‐American student‐athletes have always been my biggest concern. The improvement shown in this study is impressive. The increases in the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) for African‐American student‐athletes in the revenue sports were five percentage points in men’s basketball to 54 percent and women’s basketball to 76 percent, respectively, and four percentage points to 58 percent in Division I‐A football in the three years since the initial study. That is substantial and is very good news for college sport.”
More...

Date of Release: March 17, 2009
The 2009 Division I Women's College Basketball Study

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates for 2009 NCAA Women’s and Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams,” which compares graduation success rates for Division I teams that have been selected for the women’s and men’s brackets of the 2009 NCAA Basketball Tournaments.
More...

Date of Release: March 16, 2009
The 2009 Division I Men's College Basketball Study

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida released its annual study, “Keeping Score When It Counts: Graduation Rates and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for 2009 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Teams” which is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament‐bound teams. The study examines the Graduation Success Rates (GSR) and Academic Progress Rates (APR) for the tournament teams as reported by the NCAA. The study also compares the performance in the classroom for African‐American and white basketball student‐athletes.
More...

Date of Release: February 19, 2009
The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sport

The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card for College Sport showed that NCAA member institutions and their conferences lost ground for both their record for gender hiring practices and hiring practices by race. In fact, college sport had the lowest grade for racial hiring practices in 2008.
More...

Date of Release: December 8, 2008
The 2008-2009 College Football Bowl Study

Overall academic progress continued while the gap between white and African‐American football student‐athletes increased slightly for the 68 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) schools (formerly known as Division I‐A schools) playing in this year’s college football bowl games according to a study released today by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida.
More...

Date of Release: November 6, 2008
The 2008-2009 Division I Campus Leadership Study

With the firing of Ty Willingham at the University of Washington and the resignation of Ron Prince at Kansas State, the 2008 regular season of college football will conclude with the controversy over the poor record of hiring African-American Division IA (Football Bowl Subdivision – FBS) head football coaches still continuing to make headlines. Their departure will leave only four African-American and two other head coaches of color. College football is still far behind other college and professional sports.
More...

Date of Release: September 24, 2008
The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Soccer

The 2008 Major League Soccer Racial and Gender Report Card resulted in continued
outstanding results for MLS regarding racial hiring practices and a huge improvement in gender hiring practices.
More...

Date of Release: March 27, 2008
Scoring the Hire: BCA Hiring Report Card for Women's College Basketball 2008

Title IX has been the driving force that has contributed to the exposure and success of
women’s sport on the collegiate level. The success of women’s sport has been an outstanding catalyst for the equality of women in modern day society as a whole. Females are finally getting the credit they deserve for their athletic prowess. Since Title IX in 1972, the number of women’s collegiate teams has increased exponentially but the number of women leading the teams as the coach has decreased dramatically. In 1972 nearly 90 percent of women’s collegiate teams were coached by women. According to the most recent College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card, only 41 percent of Division I women’s college teams are led by female head coaches. Specifically in basketball, 87 percent of the coaches were white and only nine percent were African-American women. That stands in stark contrast to the nearly 44 percent of the student athletes playing Division I women’s basketball who were African-American.
More...

Date of Release: October 24, 2007
The 2007-2008 Division I Campus Leadership Study

As the 2007 regular season of college football passes the halfway point, the controversy over having only six African-American Division IA head football coaches continues to make headlines. While this was an improvement over the five African-American head coaches during the 2006 season, it is still far behind other college and professional sports. At the end of the 2006 season, an African-American and a Latino (Randy Shannon and Mario Cristobal) were hired as head coaches at the University of Miami (Florida) and Florida International University respectively. In the case of FIU, it marked the first time that a school had a Latino president, athletics director and head football coach.
More...