Missouri S&T is one of six institutions in NCAA Division II that has been named as a recipient of the Diversity in Athletics Award in the category of gender equity compliance by the NCAA for the 2007-08 season.

The award will be presented to the university next month at the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics convention in Dallas.

The award Missouri S&T is receiving is based on the proportion of female student-athletes relative to the proportion of female undergraduates. Using data that is gathered from the U.S. Department of Education website, departments that are within one percent of equality received the highest scores.

S&T was joined on the gender equity compliance list by Florida Institute of Technology, Goldey Beacom College (Del.), Minnesota State University at Mankato, Saint Michael's College (Vt.) and Salem International University (W.Va.). It is the only Division II institution in the state of Missouri to receive an award in one of the seven categories and one of just two in the Great Lakes Valley Conference to do so.

The data used to determine the award winners was conducted by the Laboratory for Diversity in Sport at Texas A&M University in collaboration with the NCAA.