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Title IX Blog

News, legal developments, commentary, and scholarship about Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded schools.
By Erin Buzuvis, Sudha Setty, and Kristine Newhall

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Last Entry: July 16, 2010 at 08:42:00

NC county trying to comply

Posted on April 06, 2009
Not sure how reliable all the facts provided in this article are given that the writer(s?) thought that OCR stands for Office of Civil Review.It's probably true, though, that the county schools of New Hanover have a list of Title IX violations most of which relate to facilities...

Court Holds CA School District's Athletic Opportunities Violate Title IX

Posted on April 06, 2009
A federal district court in California has ruled in favor of plaintiffs challenging the distribution of athletic opportunities at Castle Park High School in Chula Vista. The court reasoned that the current 6.7 percentage point disparity between the percentage of athletic opportunities afforded to girls (38...

Congratulations future leaders!

Posted on April 05, 2009
We at the Title IX Blog offer our enthusiastic congratulations to our friend and fellow Title IX advocate Amy Wilson, a PhD candidate at University of Iowa. Amy was recently named, by NACWAA (National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics), one of five Administrators of Tomorrow...

UMass cuts skiing

Posted on April 03, 2009
In an attempt to deal with budget woes, University of Massachusetts has cut its men's and women's ski teams. The teams, which did not offer scholarships, will become club teams.Rumors swirled at the Amherst campus that it was baseball in jeopardy. But yesterday's announcement put those on the team at ease...

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ACLU Settles With Sex Segregated Middle School

Posted on April 02, 2009
The ACLU backed off of its threats to sue Mobile County, Alabama, after the county agreed to stop its practicing of segregating the entire student body at Hankins Middle School by sex for all classes and activities. Under the settlement agreement, elective classes and nonacademic activities (such as lunchtime) are immediately re-integrated...

Kansas upgrading facilities

Posted on April 01, 2009
The University of Kansas, after undertaking an internal review on gender equity and review an external committee's report, has developed a master plan designed to improve the quality of women's athletics facilities at the university.A new and improved boathouse for the crew team debuted this year already...

Kutztown cutting programs

Posted on April 01, 2009
Administrators at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania have announced that they will be cutting two sports: men's swimming and men's soccer. They are calling it a proactive move meant to preserve academics. The decision to cut these two particular sports were made after an external study by consultant hired by the DII institution...

Columnist Examines Rihanna, Single-Sex Ed

Posted on March 31, 2009
A student columnist in the Cornell Daily Sun had an interesting take on the New York Times' recent piece on single-sex education. Author Ariela Rutkin-Becker uses the Rhianna/Chris Brown situation to demonstrate the harm in the messages sent to children when we separately teach boys to be tough and girls to be sensitive...

NCAA addresses pay-for-play questions

Posted on March 30, 2009
The NCAA has added to its website a piece that addresses frequently asked questions and frequently unasked for opinions on the issue of paying student-athletes.And Dr. Boyce Watkins of Syracuse University provides his own response to the NCAA's responses over at The Black Athlete Sports Network...

FGCU has a plan

Posted on March 26, 2009
After all the turmoil of the past couple of years, FGCU has a plan to "fix the root of its problems." It's a three-part process that actually does not seem to be much of a plan given that each of the three parts involves a lot of reviewing--and not a lot of action...

Indiana HS OK's Girl's Tuxedo

Posted on March 25, 2009
An update on the prom story we blogged about last week: Indiana's Lebanon High School has lifted its requirement that girls wear formal dresses to the prom. The ACLU had challenged the policy in court on behalf of a lesbian client who intends to wear a tuxedo in consistency with her sexual orientation and preferred gender presentation.

Cutting hockey in Minnesota

Posted on March 25, 2009
I didn't think they could actually do that--that it was protected by the state charter or something. But it's true and a sign of how bad things actually are--in case you missed the speech last night. A Minnesota state school is cutting hockey. Minnesota-Crookston has decided to end its DII program to save money...

SUNY Binghamton Athletic Department Officials Charged with Sexual Harassment

Posted on March 24, 2009
Thanks to the tip from a fellow attendee of the Sport, Sexuality and Culture conference in Ithaca last week, I learned about a complaint filed against SUNY Binghamton Athletic Department officials charging them with "egregious acts of sexual misconduct...

SCOTUS won't stop JMU

Posted on March 24, 2009
Equity in Athletics's attempts to stop James Madison University's elimination of 10 varsity sports has experienced an additional setback. The Supreme Court will not hear the group's request for temporary injunction that would mandate JMU reinstatement the teams until the issue is settled once and for all in court...

Urban girls and Title IX

Posted on March 23, 2009
Very good article from Women's eNews that focuses on the establishment of competitive girls double dutch in New York City.But importantly, the writer also points out numerous facts that often get lost when we talk about opportunities for girls and the enactment of Title IX...

ACLU Sues California HS for Enabling Homophobic Climate

Posted on March 21, 2009
The ACLU has sued the Newport-Mesa Unified School District in California for failing to address bullying and harassment targeting gay students at Corona Del Mar High School. Its primary example (alleged) involves three football players' threats of rape and murder, imbued with gay slurs, which were directed at a female classmate in January...

Adding competitive dance to achieve compliance

Posted on March 17, 2009
We haven't heard a lot about competitive dance teams being used to achieve compliance. Much of the attention has been given to competitive cheerleading at the collegiate level. But competitive dance falls into that same ambiguous category as cheerleading...

It's Prom Season Again, Bring on the Lawsuits

Posted on March 16, 2009
Every year around this time it seems we get to post about a student's lawsuit challenging a school district's gender-based prom policies. This year's lawsuit targets Lebanon (Indiana) School District, which has refused to allow a lesbian student to wear a tuxedo to her high school prom...

NY Times on Single-Sex Classrooms

Posted on March 13, 2009
The New York Times reports on the blossoming of single-sex classrooms in public schools, particularly in struggling schools in New York City where principals are looking for new ways to improve the learning experience and test results for their students...

Weatherford College to Survey Student Interest in Athletics

Posted on March 12, 2009
We have been following OCR's investigation into a complaint against Weatherford College in Texas that it fails to accommodate the interests and abilities of both sexes in compliance with Title IX. (For prior posts, see here and here.) Weatherford's athletic offerngs include one coed team (rodeo), men's and women's basketball, and men's baseball...

Western Washington Has Too Many Women's Sports After Cutting Football

Posted on March 11, 2009
In January, Western Washington University announced its decision to cut its NCAA Division II football program to help reduce the athletic department's deficit. While the university's records apparently show the program breaking even in 2008, university officials estimated that $10 to $12 million dollars would be required to sustain the program going forward, and considered such an investment unrealistic in today's economic climate...

Philly girls finally get championship

Posted on March 10, 2009
This story about girls' basketball in Philly really struck me. In the early 80s, a girls' basketball coach, Lurline Jones, said that girls should have a city championship like the boys who had been playing a city championship since 1938. (The championship was a match-up between the Catholic League and the Public League...

New retaliation case

Posted on March 09, 2009
In Washington a former coach has filed a lawsuit against the middle school that fired her. Terra Solkey, who coached girls' basketball asserts that she lost her coaching job when she started to raise some issues over the inequitable treatments of female athletes in her school...

Title IX discussion in Hartford

Posted on March 09, 2009
The Connecticut Historical Society is hosting a discussion Thursday night (March 12) entitled "Title IX: On the Court and Off. "The discussion, which begins at 7pm, is part of the society's She Shoots...She Scores exhibit currently on display (through January of 2010).

Loss of sports at Quinnipiac

Posted on March 06, 2009

Donna Lopiano to speak at Western New England College

Posted on March 06, 2009
Donna Lopiano, former head of the Women's Sports Foundation and amazing advocate for Title IX, is coming to Western New England College on April 22 to talk about her work and reflect upon the successes and challenges of Title IX.For more information about her talk, check out the website for the College's Center for International Sport Business: www...

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