CSU/Cal~NOW Consent Decree Report


Section II


Expenditures

The table below summarizes the expenditures for women and men's athletic programs for the 1992-93 and 1998-99 academic years.

CAMPUS EXPENDITURES ON MEN'S AND WOMEN'S
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETIC TEAMS

1992-1998

Table B 

As indicated, expenditures for women's intercollegiate athletic programs in the CSU have increased from $11.2 million in 1992-93 to $41 million in 1998-99. This represents an increase in expenditures of 266 percent. During the same period, expenditures for men's programs grew from $33.4 million to $48 million, an increase of 44 percent.

The decree called for each CSU campus to have expenditures for women's programs to be within ten percent of the percentage of NCAA-eligible women undergraduates on each campus. Based on single-year eligibility data (fall 1998 NCAA eligibility figures, Table 1a), fifteen of the nineteen CSU campuses achieved the target percentages in the area of expenditures during the 1998-99 academic year. Based on single-year eligibility data as reflected in fall 1998 eligibility reports, four campuses did not achieve the standard for expenditures in 1998-99. Variance from the standard ranged from 0.14 percent at CSU Stanislaus, to 0.74 percent at CSU Fresno, 0.75 percent at CSU San Diego, and 3.19 percent at CSU Northridge.

San Diego State allocated money that would have fully achieved the standard, but women athletes chose not to participate in summer school, which caused the campus to miss the standard by 0.75 percent. CSU Northridge has provided a report on its efforts and plans to meet this standard in section IV of the report. The inability of CSU Stanislaus and CSU Fresno to meet the target for expenditures is a result of a significant increase in female student enrollment over the past two years, which resulted in the eligibility percentage for women in fall 1998 to be higher than the three-year average.