Common use of Recruitment of Student Athletes Clause in Contracts

Recruitment of Student Athletes. 1) whether coaches or other professional athletic personnel in the programs serving male and female athletes are provided with substantially equal opportunities to recruit; 2) whether the financial and other resources made available for recruitment in male and female athletic programs are equivalently adequate to meet the needs of each program; and 3) whether the differences in benefits, opportunities, and treatment afforded prospective student athletes of each sex have a disproportionately limiting effect upon the recruitment of students of either sex. The University’s evaluation will include consideration of its policies, procedures, and criteria affecting all of these areas of program benefits for each team for the 2016-2017 seasons. If through this evaluation the University determines that any provision of program benefits is not equivalent for members of both sexes and the differences are not the result of nondiscriminatory factors, the University will take responsive action steps to provide equivalent program benefits to its men’s and women’s athletic teams.