Congress wants to know how the NCAA is making its diversity pledge a reality

October 5, 2017 By

WASHINGTON — Over a year ago, the NCAA began asking member schools to get behind a pledge developing better hiring practices that promoted diversity and equality. Without an answer on any progress on that pledge in a year, Congress is now asking questions.

Led by Suzanne Bonamici, a Democrat from Oregon, lawmakers have sent correspondence to Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, to demand answers on the organization’s progress toward increased hiring diversity.

Read more here: https://www.sbnation.com/2017/10/5/16429368/congress-bonamici-mark-emmert-to-know-how-the-ncaa-diversity-pledge-rooney-rule

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