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Earlier today, National Review Online ran a piece by College Sports Council Chairman Eric Pearson about the rollback of the model survey option for Title IX compliance by the Obama Administration. It's called, "The 'No Brainer' Gender Quota."
The long-term impact of the recent rollback is that colleges will continue to eliminate men’s teams in order ...
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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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From North Jersey.com:
Seton Hall announced Wednesday that it is dropping men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track and field, effective July 1, as a cost-cutting measure. In keeping with
NCAA and Title IX requirements that the school fields 14 sports teams, women’s golf will be added.
More later.
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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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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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It was last October when we first told you about how Western Illinois University (WIU) signed an agreement with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights to resolve a Title IX complaint that alleged the school wasn't providing enough athletic opportunities for women.
As part of the agreement, WIU conducted a model survey to asses the level ...
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Thanks to Doug Robinson of the Deseret News for calling out the
NCAA on this decision:
Congratulations to the
NCAA for making beach volleyball an official collegiate sport — for women.
Just what we need: another sport that is not sponsored by high schools and is played largely by people who have access to, oh, I don't know, a beach.
By the way, ...
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Last month, the College Sports Council (CSC) announced some preliminary findings of a study into
NCAA Division I scholarships in "gender symmetric" sports that found significant disparities into opportunities for men and women. Yesterday, the CSC released the full study (click here for the charts and graphs that accompanied the study), which generat...
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Texas Swimming takes a closer look at some of the dust getting kicked up in the comments thread of a US News and World Report blog post about Myles Brand and his edict on public statements about Title IX.
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