383 Results for tag: Title IX
An article today in The Maneater, The University of Missouri (MU)'s student newspaper, revisits why the school has chosen not comply with
Title IX by using prong 1, or proportionality:
MU athletics director Mike Alden wrote a column for mutigers.com in 2003 explaining why MU, controversially, does not comply with prong one.
“Proportionality stems ...
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A recent article in The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University's student newspaper, sheds light on how gender quotas have affected multiple men's teams at WVU and makes the case for bringing back men's distance running now that WVU is headed to the Big 12 conference. In 2003, the university axed men's cross country, track, indoor track, tennis and coed ...
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It's not surprise that
Title IX, gender quotas and inequality of opportunities among male and female athletes are getting more attention press attention. After all, if schools keep using proportionality and unfair methods of implementing
Title IX, we're going to see more students unhappy with the status quo.
Here's what's happening this week around the ...
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A recent article in Delaware's News Journal attempts to show how Patrick T. Harker, president of the University of Delaware (UD), is making budget and administrative decisions that are drawing both positive and negative attention. Unfortunately, because of the rationale Harker used to put certain programs on the chopping block, some members in the UD ...
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As schools continue to rely on a numbers game to ensure proportionality between male and female athletes and overall school populations, we're going to keep seeing creative — if not outright controversial — ways to meet
Title IX requirements.
Starting female sand volleyball teams seems to be an increasingly popular method. We previously wrote on ...
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Controversy in New Mexico continues over booster club funding and
Title IX implementation as discussion heats up over the state's Schools Athletics Equity Act. The issue remains whether private donations raised by parents through bake sales and working concession stands, or whether philanthropic contributions by private businesses, should be pooled together ...
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Previously, we wrote about Georgia State's decision to build a women's sand volleyball team to balance out the numbers after creating a football team. The case sheds light onto how schools address compliance with
Title IX, including how they use proportionality, budget and student interest to make decisions.
For Georgia State, the relatively low cost of ...
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It gets old saying this, but we're going to again: we told you so. As gender quotas used to apply
Title IX in college athletics surface at the high school level, we will see the same destructive consequences — such as cuts to whole teams or partial rosters on boys team (and even girls teams) — unravel.
Unfortunately, for the College of Staten Island ...
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It gets old saying this, but we're going to again: we told you so. As gender quotas used to apply
Title IX in college athletics surface at the high school level, we will see the same destructive consequences — such as cuts to whole teams or partial rosters on boys team (and even girls teams) — unravel.
Unfortunately, for the College of Staten Island ...
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Following the Office of Civil Rights' decision to dismiss
Title IX complaints in Oregon, many of us were wondering (and cheering) why they did it. Well, it looks like we have an answer, and it's one that we welcome. Hopefully, this outcome will be repeated in other states that have been overwhelmed by complaints by gender quota activists.
The Oregonian ...
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