ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A new study of Football Bowl Subdivision schools and conferences shows top leadership positions remain significantly white and male.
The report released Wednesday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport shows huge disparities in the percentage of gender and racial minorities serving as school presidents, athletic directors and faculty athletic representatives for all 128 FBS institutions.
Overall, whites held 342 of the 385 (88.8 percent) campus leadership positions. White men held 101 of the 128 (78.9 percent) president positions. Sixteen women and 11 non-white males currently serve as presidents in FBS, which is down from 19 and 13, respectively, in 2014.
Among athletic directors, white men held 102 of 128 jobs (79.7 percent), an increase of 2 percent. Seventeen were non-white males, with no female African-American, Asian, Latina or Native American athletic directors at FBS schools.
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