The Drake Group Endorses 2024 GAO Report Detailing Title IX Enforcement Failures

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The Drake Group Endorses 2024 GAO Report Detailing Title IX Enforcement Failures

In April 2024, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report, “College Athletics: Education Should Improve Its Title IX Enforcement Efforts.” The GAO found that 93 percent of all intercollegiate athletic programs were not offering athletics opportunities to females proportional to their percentage in the full-time undergraduate student body. The overall athletic participation rate for females was 14 percentage points lower than their enrollment during the 2021-2022 academic year. At two-thirds of all colleges with athletic programs, the rate of females’ athletics participation was at least 10 percent lower than their undergraduate female enrollment. Forty percent of the colleges with these large enrollment differences had not added a new female sport over the last 14 years or had dropped one or more female sports during that period. The Drake Group convened a panel of Title IX experts to review the report, comment on OCR recommendations, and if appropriate, make additional recommendations to improve OCR enforcement and realize the purpose of Title IX.