Despite the addition of women’s golf and lacrosse in the past two years, Central Michigan University must continue making changes to be Title IX compliant.
CMU aims to achieve “substantial proportionality" with the ratio of men and women participating in sports to the undergraduate enrollment gender ratio by 2018-2019, according to a 2012 Board of Trustees presentation. Universities are required to comply with Title IX, which aims to provide equal opportunities to men and women.
There were 9,489 women and 7,776 men as undergraduates on campus in fall 2015 — a ratio of 54.96 percent to 45.