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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing I've noticed about recruited athletes when I'm on Wesleyan's campus is that they really add to diversity.  Not just racial diversity.  Also socioeconomic diversity.  If you live in a wealthy suburb of DC or send your kids to privat school in DC, recruitment of athletes can look like another way to make rich families get richer.  But if you are on Wesleyan's campus, you'll encounter a lot of athletes of all ethnicities from non-elite high schools and communities.  The athletes also add to the political diversity.[/quote]

And gender balance.  Many non-STEM heavy schools have a gender imbalance problem and athletics is viewed as one way to help make the school attractive, both to the male students they recruit for the male teams, but also to non-participant male students who want to be at a school that has a robust athletics program.  Varsity athletics is considered a good recruitment tool for enrollment generally.

https://universitybusiness.com/bringing-male-students-back-to-college/

https://theathletic.com/1164094/2019/08/30/traditional-thrill-football-is-a-small-college-enrollment-elixir-despite-attendance-participation-declines/

One example is Lewis & Clark college in Portland, which had a student population that was 62% female and 38% male in Fall 2021.  One of the things they did to help address that was to start a men's soccer team in Fall 2022.  This didn't come at the expense of women's athletics though, as they also started a women's lacrosse team.  [/quote]

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