383 Results for tag: Title IX
Here's something that we've had in our archives for some time --College Sports Council Chairman Eric Pearson's testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education from June 2007:
Chairman Hinojosa, Ranking member Keller, and all members of the Committee, I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak today, and share with ...
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LandThieves is asking some uncomfortable questions about
Title IX and Big 12 Soccer:
A good friend of mine asked me this a couple of weeks ago. He told me OU didn't have a soccer team, neither did OSU. I was sure he was misinformed. Being a former auditor, I decided to check it out. Sho'nuff, neither school has men's soccer. actually, no school in the Big ...
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By Steven G. Gieseler
The College Sports Council has been kind enough to ask me to contribute to this weblog, on the issue of
Title IX's application to high school sports. As the Pacific Legal Foundation attorney representing CSC in its petition action now before the Department of Education, I'm well-aware of the fine work the Council is doing on this ...
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It has been a terrible Spring season for colleges across the country under pressure from the
Title IX gender quota. Many schools have been forced to eliminate athletic programs, most notably James Madison University which cut seven men’s teams – the most ever axed at one time by any school. Scores of other schools have had to tighten their roster caps ...
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Representative Linda Sanchez writes on the Huffingtonpost this morning that she will be playing in the annual Congressional baseball game – as a personal tribute to
Title IX. (Assuming that she doesn’t sprain a wrist from patting herself on the back).
Along with the self-congratulation (the congresswoman got a single in last year’s game!) Sanchez ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 20, 2007 – A study announced today by the College Sports Council shows that men’s athletic teams are disappearing in dozens of states as a result of onerous
Title IX enforcement.
Sports that are thriving on the high school level are now entirely missing in many states. Despite an explosion in youth soccer, for instance, ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 20, 2007 – Two leading national organizations today called on the U.S. Department of Education to clarify that
Title IX’s compliance standard for colleges, known as three part test, does not apply to High School sports teams.
The request was made today by the College Sports Council, a national coalition of coaches, parents, ...
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Sports Council Update, November 2006
www.collegesportscouncil.org
FROM: Jessica Gavora, CSC Director of Communications
Dear Friends of the CSC;
When James Madison University (JMU) announced on September 29 the elimination of 10 athletic teams in order to comply with
Title IX proportionality - the largest single act of
Title IX related cuts by ...
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An article in Dartmouth's student newspaper reports on our rally for
Title IX reform two weeks ago at the Department of Education. But Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper is dubious about the students from JMU and their appeal for reform. “The cuts don’t have so much to do with money being poured into women’s programs – it has to do with the ...
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Here’s the story from US News & World Report on the rally.
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