Section IV Report on Efforts Undertaken by Campuses Not in Compliance, Including Plans to Achieve Compliance • California State University, Stanislaus As indicated in section I of this report, California State University, Stanislaus was not able to meet the standard for compliance in the areas of participation, expenditures and grants-in-aid. The consent decree called for each CSU campus to have women participants in intercollegiate athletics within five percentage points of NCAA-eligible women undergraduates. A total of 64.01 percent of CSU Stanislaus female students were NCAA-eligible in the fall of 1998. During the 1998-99 academic year, the female student participation rate in athletics was 53.45 percent, which places Stanislaus at 5.56 percent below the target established by the decree. With the addition of women's soccer and women's indoor track last year, CSU Stanislaus fully expected to achieve compliance by the end of the 1998-99 academic year. During one year's time, Stanislaus was able to achieve an 18 percent increase in their female athletes' participation rate. In spite of their best efforts, however, Stanislaus was unable to achieve full compliance. Using the three-year NCAA eligibility average (1995-97, Table 1b) as its target, Stanislaus took action to limit roster sizes for men's athletics while continuing efforts to increase roster sizes for women's athletics. A significant increase in women's enrollment, however, will require additional action in 2000-2001 to achieve compliance. According to CSU Stanislaus' rosters for the current academic year (1999-2000), the participation rate for women athletes is 55.35 percent. CSU Stanislaus had developed a plan for 1999-2000 based on the three-year eligibility average (Table 1b) and took action to set squad sizes that would achieve this target. In order to achieve compliance in future years, CSU Stanislaus is prepared to reduce men's squad sizes accordingly, should this be necessary, and to take additional action to achieve full compliance according to the decree. • California State University, Bakersfield As indicated in section I of this report, California State University, Bakersfield was not able to meet the standard for compliance in the area of participation. The consent decree called for each CSU campus to have women participants in intercollegiate athletics within five percentage points of NCAA-eligible women undergraduates. An average of 63.81 percent of CSU Bakersfield female students were NCAA-eligible in the fall of 1998. During the 1998-99 academic year, the female student participation rate in athletics was 57.72 percent, which places Bakersfield at 1.09 percent below the target established by the decree. California State University, Bakersfield was unable to achieve compliance in the area of women's participation due to a recent court ruling that prohibited the university from limiting the squad size of the men's wrestling program. In 1997, a Federal District Judge prohibited CSU Bakersfield from limiting participation on men's teams as a means to promote athletic participation more closely reflecting the campus' male-female enrollment ratio. The California State University appealed this ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the ruling and vacated the preliminary injunction in a decision filed on December 15, 1999. In the intervening time, however, the lower court's order limited CSU Bakersfield's ability to achieve compliance with the consent decree in the area of participation. CSU Bakersfield is now evaluating how to proceed in light of this recent court decision in order to assure compliance. CSU Bakersfield has undertaken other initiatives to support and enhance participation for its female student athletes. In 1996-97, Bakersfield added women's soccer; in 1997-98 women's water polo was added; and in 1998-99 women's cross-country was added. In order to continue to work toward achieving the standard of compliance in the decree, CSU Bakersfield is in the process of hiring a women's basketball coach in order to implement the women's basketball program in the fall of 2000. Other efforts to improve opportunities for women athletes at CSU Bakersfield are outlined in Section V of this report.