>>[Coach J] It is not based on enrollment, it is based on the number of male scholarships vs female scholarships.<<
Actually, Title IX is based upon the following three tenants:
1) Participation. Proportionality is the simplest, most straightforward method of assuring compliance. If you have 5% females in the student body, you have 5% female athletes in your athletic program. There are ways to bypass proportionality (history and continuing practice of program expansion or full and complete accomodation of female's interest); but proportionality stands up to review the best.
2) Benefits and Services: Schools don't have to spend the same proportional amount on male and female sports, but they need to show that benefits and services are propotional.
3) Scholarships: The percentages of total athletic scholarship dollars awarded to male and female athletes must be within 1% of their participation rates.
So if 5% of the undergraduate student body is female at the Citadel, this means that 5% of the scholarship dollars needs to be awarded to females.
Bottom line: this sounds less like a Title IX issue than it does an administration budgeting issue.
