383 Results for tag: Title IX
I just got this picture in the mail along with a note from CSC board member Bob Wournos:
Our Level 6 & 7 teams at Great Northern Gymnastics bagged groceries for tips for two weekends before the MIGS Program National Invitational in early March. They raised $1,035.00 and presented me with a check for that amount during awards cermonies.
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If you really want to know why the College Sports Council is in business, you should take a look at this photo. It was taken a few months ago at an event sponsored in Philadelphia by Beat the Streets, an organization dedicated to establishing youth wrestling programs all over the country. This picture was taken at an event sponsored by the organization's ...
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It was a sad weekend at the University of Delaware, as the 100-year old men's track team competed on campus for the last time. You'll recall that the team, as well as men's cross country, was recently eliminated, with the school citing
Title IX compliance as the reason why.
Jim Tresolini of the News-Journal was there, and he picked up on something we've ...
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Great news out of the Bay Area. After raising almost $10 million, Cal has decided to reinstate its baseball team. Here's the Facebook message I got from Doug Nickle just a few minutes ago:
Congratulations to Doug and the entire Cal baseball community. More later.
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I just got the following message from Doug Nickle at Save Cal Baseball:
Something tells me that they'll make it. Here's hoping we get some happy news from the school before the end of the academic year.
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Just yesterday, we posted a link to a piece from Congressional Quarterly Research (click here for a blog post by CQ summarizing their larger report on
Title IX) that was written by Karen Owoc, a member of the College Sports Council's Advisory Board. After some nastiness on Twitter (something for which an apology has been given), it became clear to me that ...
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While the wrestling community can't help but be upset at the news that Liberty University decided to eliminate its wrestling program in order to help with
Title IX compliance, you have to at least credit AD Jeff Barber for being honest about what he's up to.
The math at Liberty is pretty simple. The student body is 52/48 in favor of female students. But ...
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Earlier today, the College Sports Council got into another sharp exchange on Twitter that, in the end, might have actually produced something productive. While you can read about the details yourself at Sportsmyriad, a blog run by ex-USA Today reporter Beau Dure, I'd like to focus on some of the ideas that Dure proposed for
Title IX reform, ideas that ...
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It's hard to think of a better example of federal overreach in the area of
Title IX than the regulation of athletic booster clubs. Over the past few years, we've seen plenty of examples of parents being forced to leap through legal hoops to satisfy the folks in Washington. Just this morning, I read a story from Pennsylvania that made my head hurt:
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"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
There are few more unwelcome pieces of news for an athletic director than when the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights comes calling about a
Title IX investigation. That's probably why the AD at Wayne State University ...
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