383 Results for tag: Title IX
The bloodletting in intercollegiate athletics continues. From the AP:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with one of the deepest college athletic programs in the nation, says it will cut eight of its 41 varsity sports in a money-saving move.Student Life Dean Costantino Colombo and athletic director Julie Soriero said in a letter posted on the ...
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Click here for the official announcement. I think it's worth noting that back in February 2008, the College Sports Council issued a study warning that nearly all of the nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities were out of compliance with
Title IX's proportionality standard, putting over 3,300 male athletes at risk nationwide.
One of the ...
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The San Francisco Chronicle says yes.
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We know the enforcement of
Title IX at the college level has been devastating to men's volleyball programs, but what sort of effect is it having at the high school level? According to at least one newspaper in Colorado, the law is retarding the growth of the sport for young men:
The CBHSVA has been petitioning for years to become a mainstream sport in ...
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Press release from the University of Vermont:
As part of a University-wide budget management plan, the University of Vermont Athletic Department announced today that it will be discontinuing two sports, baseball and softball, at the conclusion of the current season in May. This reorganization will also include the closing of five staff positions. Dr. ...
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Schools across the country are facing tough economic pressure and many are facing the grim prospect of eliminating athletic teams. The latest example is the University of Hawaii, which reported yesterday that some of their teams may have to be cut. Problem is, which ones?
Currently, UH has eleven sports for women and seven sports for men. But ...
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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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In only the past few weeks, both Northeastern Univerisity and HofstraUniversity announced that they were eliminating their football programs. Both schools compete in the Football Championship Series, what was known for many years as Division I-AA. In announcing the end of the programs, officials at both schools cited many of the typical reasons: ...
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I'll be headed out for the holidays momentarily, but before I go, I wanted to pass along the very sad news that bothNorwich University(which also cut Men's tennis) and Lawrence University have dropped their men's wrestling programs.
At Norwich, it seems that friends of the program are determined not to go without a fight and are starting a letter ...
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While the administration at the University of Delaware decided to ignore NCAA President Myles Brand's edict not to blame
Title IX for the end of the Men's Indoor Track program, the folks who run the student newspaper don't seem to mind resorting to Orwellian twists of the language to cover up what happened:
University President Patrick Harker, Edgar ...
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