College sports lost ground in hiring women and minorities, according to a new report released Thursday.

The report, produced by the University of Central Florida-based Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, shows that efforts to hire coaches, athletic directors and conference commissioners actually worsened over the course of a year.

The report examined hiring practices of NCAA member institutions.

“It certainly calls for new strategies to bring about effective change,” said Dr. Richard Lapchick, director of the institute and chief author of the report card. “I recently called for the equivalent of a civil rights movement in college sports.”

This is the worst report card for college sports in many years, Lapchick added.

For example, the study found that all 11 conference commissioners of the Football Bowl Subdivision are White men; and in men’s Division I basketball — long held as an area of great opportunity for coaches of color — the percentage of Black head coaches declined from 25.2 percent three years ago to its current 22.9 percent.

The one area of college sports the report did not criticize is NCAA headquarters, where there are three African-American vice presidents — one of whom is a woman — and four female vice presidents.

“The one place college sports got a good grade was headquarters, where (NCAA president) Myles Brand is in control of its destiny,” Lapchick said.

The NCAA disagreed with the rest of his assessment.

“Many athletic directors and other administrators are making the right decisions with their recent hires, and we are encouraged by this,” said Charlotte Westerhaus, NCAA vice-president for diversity and inclusion. “We are definitely on the road to improvement. And while we have not yet turned the corner, we can at least see it in the distance.”

Terri Williams-Flournoy, a Black woman now in her fifth season as head coach of the women’s basketball team at Georgetown University, said those doing the hiring have to be willing to give young coaches of color opportunities.