383 Results for tag: Title IX
Over the past several months, we've seen the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights inundated with
Title IX complaints coming from Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Although there are about 300 complaints in total, the heart of each is always the same: that the gender balance of the athletic department of the high school in question is isn't in ...
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That's the question that's being asked over at College Lacrosse, a blog that's part of SBNation. Be sure to stop by and tell them what you think.
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Last Summer, the College Sports Council published an analysis of NCAA participation data that showed how
Title IX enforcement had stifled the development of men's soccer in Division I, creating wide disparities between the men's and women's game. It's now a little less than a year later, and we're still seeing more folks take notice of the unintended ...
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In the Summer of 2009, the College Sports Council published an analysis of the NCAA's own scholarship and participation data that found that in sports where men and women both compete, women get the lion's share of both scholarships and participation opportunities (click here for the charts and graphs). As CSC Chairman Eric Pearson wrote at the time:
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It was a little more than a year ago that Inside Lacrosse published a seminal article on how
Title IX was holding back the growth of the men's game in NCAA Division I.
Now, just a few days ago, viewers on ESPN2 got to hear about what we've been talking about at Saving Sports for a number of years now. On Saturday, May 21, during a broadcast of an NCAA ...
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In the Summer of 2009, the College Sports Council released an analysis of NCAA athletic participation data that showed that in sports where men and women both compete, female student athletes have more participation opportunities and win more scholarships.
Other folks are starting to notice, like one member of the women's rowing team at Syracuse Univer...
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The student editors at UCLA's Daily Bruin deserve some kudos today for a trio of articles they've published about how
Title IX compliance has affected the athletic department at that historic school.
The first piece by Emma Coghlan looks at how the strict gender quotas required by Prong One of the law's three-part test are preventing men's lacrosse and ...
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Yesterday, ESPN's Outside the Lines did a report on the recent elimination of football and wrestling at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. The school took the action as part of its planned move to Division I. At the time, the school said that the move would help with
Title IX compliance in the future (click here for our initial reaction to that announcemen...
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Over the weekend, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from the mother of a competitive cheerleader that probably wasn't well received at the HQ of the Women's Sports Foundation on Long Island:
To the Sports Editor:
Re “Cutting Men’s Programs Now to Satisfy
Title IX in Future,” May 2: By lumping cheerleading with drill team and ...
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Earlier this week, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review threw its support behind the effort to get the men's track and field team reinstated at the University of Delaware:
So cowed are colleges and universities by the "social justice" agenda behind
Title IX -- the federal law banning sex discrimination in education -- that they're pre-emptively cutting men's ...
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