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A little less than a year ago, ESPN was one of the media outlets that picked up our study about the scholarship disparities that exist in gender symmetric sports. And today, ESPN.com, in a story about the number of scholarships available in college soccer, included this important bit of perspective straight out of our study:
A study published in July ...
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Over the weekend, U.S. News and World Report put together a list of 10 Things You Didn't Know About Title IX, a list that contained points supplied by the U.S. Department of Education and the Women's Educational Equity Act Resource Center.
But what U.S. News didn't count on was the fact that the CSC's Clay McEldowney was paying attention, and came ...
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Here in Washington, it's the day after the Obama Administration announced a change in the way schools can use the model survey toprove compliance with Title IX. Needless to say, while the folks at CSC were disappointed with the decision and believe that it's an incredible step backward, we're not any less committed to the fight for true equity in college ...
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Over the past couple of days, we've seen some definite signs that the Obama Administration is planning a major announcement concerningTitle IX enforcement tomorrow afternoon in Washington, D.C. Last Thursday, Libby Sander at the Chronicle of Higher Educationinterviewed Russlyn Ali of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, and she let ...
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Before the week was out, we wanted to make sure we shared some very good news that came courtesy of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just before the Easter holiday:
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has released a report on accommodation of athletic interests and abilities of college students under Title IX of the Higher Education Amendments Act of ...
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Last week, we pointed to a column by Dwight Collins at Ocala.com that made the case that Title IX was retarding the competitiveness of the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team. While we're not experts on international Soccer here at
Saving Sports (though we watch quite a bit of it), we know more than a little bit about how Title IX has harmed men's sports at ...
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Things are pretty much status quo since we last checked in at Delaware State University, currently the subject of not one, but two separate Title IX law suits concerning the elimination of its equestrian program. The suit got the attention of Bonnie Erbe, host of the PBS program, To The Contrary, something she noted yesterday at her blog at U.S. News ...
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Take a good look at that photo. That's a picture of Andy Bayer, a red-shirt freshman at Indiana University and an All-American in Cross Country. What's even more amazing is that it almost didn't happen. You see, Andy, like a lot of top male cross country prospects around the country, wasn't able to get a scholarship to compete at Indiana. So, spitting ...
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Over at Ocala.com, Dwight Collins is concerned that the U.S. Men's National Team may never win the World Cup, and he's listing what he believes are the reasons why. And I couldn't miss #1 on the list:
* Title IX. The gender equity legislation that has done so many wonderful things for women's sports at the collegiate level has basically killed men's ...
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On Friday we told you about the situation at Point Loma Nazarene University, a school in San Diego that cut four teams -- 3 men's and one women's -- in order to comply with the strict proportionality prong of Title IX.
Yesterday, about 100 PLNU students, led by the members of the softball team, got together to protest the cuts:
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