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 108 STAT. 3970 PUBLIC LAW 103-382—OCT. 20, 1994 (2) participation in athletic pursuits plays an important role in keeping the minds and bodies of young Americans healthy and physically fit; (3) there is increasing concern among citizens, educators, and public officials regarding the athletic opportunities for young men and women at institutions of higher education; (4) a recent study by the National Collegiate Athletic Association found that in Division I-A institutions, only 20 percent of the average athletic department operations budget of $1,310,000 is spent on women's athletics; 15 percent of the average recruiting budget of $318,402 is spent on recruiting female athletes; the average scholarship expenses for men is $1,300,000 and $505,246 for women; and an average of 143 grants are awarded to male athletes and 59 to women athletes; (5) female college athletes receive less than 18 percent of the athletics recruiting dollar and less than 24 percent of the athletics operating dollar; (6) male college athletes receive approximately $179,000,000 more per year in athletic scholarship grants than female college athletes; (7) prospective students and prospective student athletes should be aware of the commitments of an institution to providing equitable athletic opportunities for its men and women students; and (8) knowledge of an institution's expenditures for women's and men's athletic programs would help prospective students and prospective student athletes make informed judgments about the commitments of a given institution of higher education to providing equitable athletic benefits to its men and women students. (c) DISCLOSURE OF ATHLETIC PROGRAM.— Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(g) DATA REQUIRED.— Reports. "(1) IN GENERAL.—Each coeducational institution of higher education that participates in any program under this title, and has an intercollegiate athletic program, shall annually, for the immediately preceding academic year, prepare a report that contains the following information regarding intercollegiate athletics: "(A) The number of male and female full-time undergraduates that attended the institution. "(B) A listing of the varsity teams that competed in intercollegiate athletic competition and for each such team the following data: "(i) The total number of participants, by team, as of the day of the first scheduled contest for the team. "(ii) Total operating expenses attributable to such teams, except that an institution may also report such expenses on a per capita basis for each team and expenditures attributable to closely related teams such as track and field or swimming and diving, may be reported together, although such combinations shall be reported separately for men's and women's teams, "(iii) Whether the head coach is male or female and whether the head coach is assigned to that team

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