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application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms The student, Angela Jacobs, accepted the attached license on 2024-11-22 at 12:16. The student, Angela Jacobs, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2024-11-22 at 12:16. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-11-22 at 12:47. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #21373 on 2025-03-28 at 14:26:02 Understanding institutional investment in women’s collegiate athletic programs Jacobs, Angela Carpenter 2024-11-22 Hinze-Pifer, Rebecca Hinze-Pifer, Rebecca Delaney, Jennifer A Baber, Lorenzo Kearney, Tyler College Athletics Funding Title Ix Women’s Collegiate Athletics Gender Equity Feminist Theory eng This study explores factors with potential implications on institutional-level spending on women’s collegiate athletics. It looks at the history of women in higher education, Title IX and its impacts, and the evolution of women and sport post-Title IX. For generations, women have fought for equitable opportunities and treatment, including equal access to sport. Feminist theory elucidates the motivations behind these efforts and is employed as a foundation upon which to view historic and modern-day disparities in the support and financial backing of men’s versus women’s collegiate athletics. Publicly available data from a variety of higher education and collegiate athletics sources are used. This study employs a fixed effects panel regression to assess financial and non-financial factors that may relate to an institution’s relative investment in its female athletes. Regression results indicate female representation in certain leadership positions and a proportional increase in institutional gifts received are positively correlated with gender funding equity at the institution-level and sport-level, respectively. Proportional increases in institutional subsidies and student fees have a positive relationship with program-level spend on women’s basketball players. Proportional spend on facilities and equipment is negatively correlated with gender funding equity at the sport-level as is, surprisingly, the sex of the women’s basketball coach. Findings suggest that 50 years post-Title IX, women are allowed equal participation in college athletics but athletic department spend by athlete sex remains inequitable. 2024-12 Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127212 Copywrite 2024 Angela Carpenter Jacobs Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. Dissertation