We hope you will enjoy having a copy of the latest update of our longitudinal national survey, now in its 31st year. The 2008 update on women's intercollegiate athletics includes information on participation opportunities for female athletes, women's sports teams, and employment opportunities for coaches, athletics directors and administrators, athletic trainers and sports information directors (SID). The full 40 page report, including an executive summary, is ready for downloading in pdf format by clicking the button to the right.

The 2008 data represents all NCAA member schools which offer women's athletics. Among many other things, the 2008 data show the highest ever participation by women in our nation's intercollegiate athletics programs. On the other hand, the data also continue to show a depressed representation of women as head coaches both of women's teams and of men's teams.

Among the administrative ranks however, more females (both as a percentage and as an absolute number) serve as athletics directors than at any time since the mid 1970s.

Feel free to make copies of the summary, but please make sure to cite us and to leave the copyright notice intact. Thanks.

We have prepared a one page handout on the basics of Title IX and we invite you to use it in classes and presentations if you find it helpful. Click the button to the right to download it.

Let us also take this opportunity to let you know that we have recently published the book, Title IX, ISBN: 0-7360-4239-3, Human Kinetic Pub. 800-747-4457.

You might also find it useful to contact either the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) at 703-476-3450 (nagws.org) or the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators at 910-793-8244 (nacwaa.org).

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at Acosta/Carpenter, Post Office Box 42, West Brookfield, MA 01585, Phone: 508-867-9962.
Our email contact is: womeninsport@charter.net.

Sincerely,

R. Vivian Acosta, Ph.D. and Linda Jean Carpenter, Ph.D., J.D.
Professors Emerita, Brooklyn College

Electronic copies of the full summary are available in PDF form both at the button above and at on the web at: www.acostacarpenter.ORG and webpages.charter.net/womeninsport/.

This project has been graciously funded Through the Years by Smith College's Project on Women and Social Change & Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.