383 Results for tag: Title IX

Wade Hughes Op Ed Kicks Up Some Dust

Both Alison Kasic and Robert VerBruggen took notice of the piece on Title IX and Historically Black Colleges and Universities that ran over at The Root earlier this week. Nice to see people notice the work Wade Hughes did. UPDATE: And more people keep noticing. Here too. More

Where’s The Title IX for Black Men?

That's the title of an op ed that ran today over at The Root, the new online magazine for African-Americans created by the same minds who are responsible for Slate. The piece was written by our friend, Wade Hughes, the former wrestling coach at Howard University until the program was cut along with baseball in 2002 in order to help the university comply ... More

Title IX and Science Education

Some members of the academic community have taken a look at gender disparity in college and university science programs and have come to the conclusion that it's time to give Title IX a try. But there's at least one academic who's taken a look at what's happened with athletics, and doesn't think it's the right formula. More

Oregon Wrestling: Title IX’s Collateral Damage

Our friends at Oregon Wrestling are participating in the PAC-10 Championship in Eugene today, what may be the final competition in the program's 54-year existence. Late last week, Oregon's Assistant AD, Neal Zoubouklos, stated that Title IX compliance wasn't an issue when Oregon decided to drop the program in favor of adding Men's Baseball and ... More

One View of Title IX and HBCUs: The Human Cost

Thanks to working on the announcement of yesterday's study on Title IX and historically black colleges and universities, I had the distinct pleasure of getting to know Reggie Torrence. Reggie is an employee of Xerox and living in Washington, D.C. today, but six years ago he had just completed his sophomore year at Howard University while also competing as ... More

What Happens When a Program is Killed Because of Title IX

A couple of years back, Iowa State University shut down its baseball program. Now fans are asking why. More

Keene State College Hamstrung by Title IX

While some students would like to see sports added, it's clear that the athletic director knows that if he runs afoul of the strict proportionality standard, it could be trouble. More

Study shows Historically Black Colleges and Universities struggle to meet Title IX’s proportionality test.

Normally I'm not the kind of blogger that just posts press releases, but today's news is a bit of an exception: COLLEGE SPORTS COUNCIL Press Release Contact: Eric McErlain (202) 904-2416 Study shows Historically Black Colleges and Universities struggle to meet Title IX’s proportionality test. CSC Calls on NCAA to support HBCU’s use of ... More

CSC’s Eric Pearson on the HBCU Study

Here's what Eric Pearson, chairman of the College Sports Council, had to say about the study the CSC released earlier today concerning Title IX and historically black colleges and universities: "We're not asking for punishment; we're pointing out how hard it is for HBCUs to comply with proportionality," council Chairman Eric Pearson says. He argues HBCUs ... More

Updating the Numbers on the HBCU Study

We just got a call from Rainer Sabin, a reporter at the Virginian-Pilot. He found an omission in our study, as it seems we inadvertently excluded Norfolk State University from the original analysis. So we went back to look at the data, and here's what we found: NSU has 4,459 students (1,713 male and 2,746 female) according to the Department of Education ... More