41 varsity coaches; not one of them black. Fourteen top athletic administrators—none of them black either.

Ouch.

The Boston Globe’s Bob Hohler exposes the lack of diversity in Harvard’s athletic hiring in today’s paper, and he’s right on target: There’s no excuse for the sheer whiteness of the university’s athletics coaching and administration.

“We’re obviously disappointed that we lack significant racial diversity in the athletic department, in particular at the senior level,” said James S. Hoyte, assistant to the president and associate vice president for equal-opportunity programs at Harvard. “The new president has made clear she is very concerned about seeing a more diverse senior management team throughout the university, including athletics.”

When did she make that clear, I wonder? At about 4 PM yesterday?

Because chances are that diversity within the athletic administration never even crossed Faust’s mind (to be fair, why would the dean of Radcliffe think about the issue?) until a reporter for the Globe dialed her number….

And here’s another problem, tucked away within the story:

In the last academic year, the school reported paying its male full-time head coaches an average of $89,614, while female full-timers earned an average of $69,496.

Will Harvard’s first female president address the problem of gender-related pay inequity?

Floyd A. Keith, executive director of the Black Coaches’ Association, cited Harvard’s historic rival, Yale University, as faring reasonably well in fostering racial diversity in its athletic department. African-Americans serve as head coaches of Yale’s men’s basketball team and men’s and women’s soccer teams, as well as holding at least one senior administration position.

….In the Ivy League, Princeton is the only other school that has no black leadership in its head coaching or administrative ranks. Princeton also is searching for a men’s basketball coach.

Here’s a suggestion for the Globe: a three-part series on the lack of racial diversity within the Harvard administration. Who, after all, is the highest-ranking black academic official at Harvard? You have to think about it for a while, don’t you?

(I think it’s Evelyn Hammond, and it is slightly dismaying that the top African-American within the university administration is, basically, the diversity dean, rather than some position that has nothing to do with race…)