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Harvard UniversityAthletics & Title IX
18 years of Harvard’s own federal filings under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act, 2006–07 through 2024–25: who gets to play, what their teams spend, and what their coaches are paid , set against women’s share of the undergraduate body, with the other seven Ivy League schools as benchmarks on every measure.
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Independent. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Harvard University. It reports the university’s public federal filings. To raise a Title IX concern, contact Harvard’s Title IX office or the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.Source. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Equity in Athletics Data Analysis (ope.ed.gov/athletics): the annual institution-level and sport-level data files for 2006–07 through 2024–25. Each year is the institution’s own filing for a July–June reporting year. Harvard is IPEDS Unit ID 166027; the other Ivies are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton and Yale.No filing for 2020–21. The Ivy League cancelled conference competition for 2020–21. Harvard and Yale filed no EADA report for that year, so every Harvard series has a break there, and peer averages leave that season out.Roster slots and athletes. EADA counts participants as of each team’s first scheduled contest. A roster slot is one athlete on one team, so an athlete on three teams counts three times, which is how the Office for Civil Rights counts participation. The unduplicated count, also filed, counts each person once.The enrollment denominator is full-time undergraduates by sex, as each school reports it in the same EADA filing. It is not total enrollment and does not include graduate students.The proportionality gap is women’s percent of roster slots minus women’s percent of full-time undergraduates, both from the same filing. “Slots needed” is the number of women’s slots that would make women’s share of slots equal their enrollment share with men’s slots unchanged, minus the slots women held. It is arithmetic, not a legal standard: the Office for Civil Rights has set no numeric threshold for substantial proportionality, and a school can also comply with Title IX’s participation requirement through program expansion or by meeting women’s interests and abilities. Nothing on this page is a finding about compliance.Sport lines are not teams. EADA files one line per sport, so track and field combines cross country and indoor and outdoor track, and rowing combines heavyweight and lightweight crews. Sport names are standardized across years (for example, “All Track Combined” and “Track and Field and Cross Country (combined)” are one line). One women’s line, filed as “Other Sports,” first appears in 2013–14; Harvard’s 2024–25 filing identifies it as women’s rugby, which EADA has no category for.Spending. Team expenses are those the school attributed to men’s or women’s teams, summed from the sport-level file. The institution-level file’s men’s and women’s expense totals leave out football and basketball, so they are not used. Every school’s team expenses plus its unallocated expenses reconcile to its reported grand total in every year. Harvard reports no coed teams in these years. Expenses “not allocated by gender” are excluded from every share and per-athlete figure. Operating (game-day) expense per athlete divides each side’s total operating expense by its roster slots; EADA’s own per-participant columns are sums of per-sport figures and are not used. Dollars are nominal, not adjusted for inflation.Revenue equals expense. EADA counts institutional support as revenue, and Harvard reports revenue equal to expense in every filing, so revenue is not shown.Coaching pay. Salaries are the average institutional salary per head (or assistant) coach of men’s or women’s teams, and per full-time-equivalent position, as filed. They exclude bonuses, benefits and income from outside sources, and are averages across all sports, so they do not compare coaches of the same sport. Sex of coach is from the same filing.