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June 24, 2012

Rose-Hulman has witnessed changes Title IX brought

David Hughes The Tribune-Star

TERRE HAUTE — Hired by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1989, Jeff Jenkins coached his first of 23 (and counting) baseball seasons with the Engineers in 1990.

In 1999, he expanded his duties when he became the institute’s athletic director.

So Jenkins has seen a lot of changes on the eastside Terre Haute campus over the years, but probably none more significant than when females were allowed to join the previously all-male student body in 1995.

“I think when we went co-ed back in ’95, it was a great move for Rose-Hulman because it really opened up a lot of doors and avenues, not just for the girls, but for the guys,” Jenkins reflected recently.

“When we were an all-male school, you had companies trying to substantiate why they would go an to an all-male school to recruit.

“They go to a male-female mix. They know how talented Rose grads are. If you throw in female Rose grads, you’ve got a very talented pool [of potential employees]. That’s in very high demand out there in the corporate world. Women engineers are in very, very high demand … and women athletes even in higher demand.”

Jenkins emphasized that athletes — male or female — tend to be great leaders in everyday-life situations.

“They’re competitors, they have great time-management skills and they can work with a group,” he explained. “Those are all things that companies look for, not necessarily the highest grades, and our [athlete] kids get outstanding grades. Our athletes do better academically than our overall student body. They graduate at a higher rate. But I think if they are in our athletic program, that puts more on the table and gives them more substance [in the eyes of potential employers]. Thicker resumés are attractive to these companies that really want to hire females.”

With the 40-year anniversary of the enactment of Title IX on June 23, Jenkins described how modern-day Rose-Hulman handles the law in regard to its female student-athletes.

“It’s been a little easier for us because of being 80-percent male and 20-percent female,” he explained. “Title IX says you have to allocate the amount of resources at the same percentages as your enrollment for males and females. We technically could give 80 percent of our resources to the males and 20 percent to the females, but we don’t do that. Our girls are getting in the neighborhood of 35-40 percent.

“Actually, the girls live a little better than the guys here at Rose and we’re not complaining about that. They get treated very, very well. There’s a higher amount budgeted for each female athlete than there is for the male athlete here at Rose, without question.”

One might think Rose-Hulman, which competes on the NCAA Division III level with no athletic scholarships, can lure more female students because of how well it treats its women athletes, but obstacles do exist because of the institute’s academic focus.

“We do recruit athletes here,” Jenkins stressed. “Contrary to what some people think, we recruit athletes very, very hard. All of our sports recruit hard. If you want to win, you have to recruit and our male and female coaches do that very well.

“Obviously, our top draw is the academic side of things. The problem we run into is with engineering, only about 20 percent are females. So we’re a little behind the 8-ball. If we said we were only going to go out and recruit all females, boy, we would have a very small pool. It would be very difficult for us to fill our class. So we’re going to have a larger pool of males, no question.”

Despite the approximately 80-20 ratio in enrollment percentages in favor of males, Rose-Hulman offers 10 men’s sports and 10 women’s sports in addition to the co-ed sport of rifle.

Men’s sports are football, basketball, baseball, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, swimming, tennis, golf, soccer and cross country. Women’s sports are basketball, volleyball, softball, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, swimming, tennis, golf, soccer and cross country.

“Sometimes it’s difficult to fill the rosters out on the women’s side,” Jenkins admitted. “Women’s golf is one that’s kinda bounced between being eligible and not eligible by having enough members. And some of our other women’s sports have struggled with numbers at times. We’ve had basketball teams with six or eight girls sometimes and it’s no fault of the coaches. Sometimes the girls get here and they get pulled in a number of different directions. It’s because we have so few and they’re so talented.”

Rose-Hulman’s only female head coaches are Brenda Goble for volleyball and Amy Helliwell for women’s soccer, although there are several female assistants.

“It’s tough to find female coaches, but we’ve got real good ones here,” Jenkins pointed out. “We don’t have all females coaching our female sports. We have some men coaching those.”

Looking back, Jenkins acknowledged that Rose had the reputation of being “the good ol’ boys network” before the institute went co-ed, but he’s glad that is ancient history.

“It’s much nicer now,” he said. “Back then, sometimes the guys were very narrow-minded. We have more female faculty now. It’s a better, more-rounded opportunity for our males.

“It gives the males opportunities to work with females in group projects and that makes them more marketable when companies come look at them because the job market out there today is tough. You have to be able to work with all sizes, all shapes, and certainly having the chance to work with women in group projects here on campus is very, very helpful for our males.”

Overall, Jenkins believes the male-female balance at Rose-Hulman couldn’t be much better.

“We’ve had an A-plus Title IX rating [based on Equity Athletics Distribution Act reports],” he insisted, “so we feel good that we’ve treated our women athletes very, very well. The facilities are top notch for males and females here and I credit our administration for doing that. I think we’ve addressed the Title IX issue very, very well.”

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