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The bad news from Duquesne University:
Duquesne University today announced a strategic restructuring of its varsity sports program in an effort to maximize financial resources and ensure sustained athletic success. The move will reduce the number of varsity sports from 20 to 16 and keep all related scholarship and operational funding within the ...
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Many of our readers will recall that back in 2008, the College Sports Council published a study concerning the ongoing Title IX threat to America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCUs. That CSC study found:
73% of the nation's 75 HBCUs that are co-educational and have athletic programs were out of compliance with the strict ...
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One news item that we should have mentioned in real time last week concerned the failure by NCAA member institutions to remove the emerging sport tag from women's sand volleyball. If you're a little confused by the name, don't worry. The sport we're talking about is actually the same as the two-person beach volleyball game that has become so popular at the ...
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a selection of letters concerning the cuts at Duquesne University in Sunday's newspaper, and this was probably the best of the lot:
Title IX to blame
It was sad to learn that Duquesne University is dropping four men's athletic programs. Although the news story notes that Title IX may or may not have played a role, this ...
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Early last week, Dina Lassow of the National Women’s Law Center praised Judge Glen E. Conrad of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia for dismissing a lawsuit by Equity in Athletics, Inc. (EIA) against James Madison Univeristy.
EIA challenged the university’s decision to cut varsity funding of ten athletic teams (three ...
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Back on November 12, Jeffrey H. Orleans, the former commissioner of the Ivy League, gave an interview to Libby Sander of the Chronicle of Higher Education on the current landscape concerning college athletics and Title IX. And as we listened to that podcast, it was hard not to notice that some of what he had to say probably discomfited the traditional ...
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Earlier today, the Washington Post ran a column by Clay McEldowney, a member of the board of directors of the College Sports Council, where he argued that in light of some of the more recent cuts this year in men's athletic programs, it's time for federal authorities to reform Title IX:
This year, men's programs across the country have gotten the ...
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I'm sure many of you saw last week that the Washington Post ran an op ed by CSC board member Clay McEldowney detailing how because of Title IX, men's athletic programs are bearing the brunt of athletic department budget cuts around the country this Spring and Summer.
Just a couple of hours ago, John Stossel of ABC News, a former college classmate of ...
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It's been a week since the College Sports Council published its study of NCAA Division I scholarships, and to say that the response from our traditional antagonists has been wanting would be something of an understatement. Well, earlier this week, somebody finally stepped up, and in this case it was Melanie Ross Levin, the Outreach Coordinator for ...
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New Study of Gender Symmetric Teams Reveals Significant Disparity
in Athletic Opportunities at Division I Level
37 Years After Passage of Title IX, the College Sports Council
Calls on NCAA to Equalize Scholarship Limits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 23, 2009 – The preliminary findings of a study of NCAA participation and scholarship data conducted by the ...
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