Decision making in hiring: Intercollegiate athletics coaches and staff

✍ Scribed by C. Keith Harrison; Richard E. Lapchick; Neza K. Janson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 63 KB
• Volume: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0271-0579
• DOI: 10.1002/ir.316

✦ Synopsis

Tremendous staff, administration, and coaching opportunities are available within all levels of intercollegiate athletics. Acosta and Carpenter (2008) suggest that there has been a general increase in the number of women who hold administrative positions within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The study highlights 2008 as a record year for the number of women hired within intercollegiate athletics. The results demonstrated an estimated 14,742 women were employed in intercollegiate athletics with jobs ranging from athletic directors to athletic trainers (Acosta and Carpenter, 2008). There are 120 Division I Football Bowl Series schools, 116 in the Football Championship Series, and 91 nonfootball Division I institutions. Division II has 281 active member schools and Division III, 418 institutions. The National Intercollegiate Athletic Association has almost 300 member institutions, and over 500 schools are members of the National Junior College Athletic Association, the nation's largest community college athletics governing association. Among all the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 1,025 active member institutions, opportunities for employment far exceed what are available at the professional sports level.

Men, particularly white men, still overwhelmingly dominate the leadership of college athletics. Whites hold between 88 and 97 percent of all 93 8