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NCAA Gender Equity: The three-prong breakdown
by Title IX Blog
posted May 5, 2011 at 10:57pm

At the NCAA Gender Equity Forum, which Erin attended earlier this week, there was a discussion about compliance in the area of equitable opportunities. This area is--arguably--the most well-known and, perhaps ironically, the most misunderstood.Schools can...more

Court dismisses sexual harassment, retaliation case against Hofstra
by Title IX Blog
posted May 5, 2011 at 12:53pm

Last month, a federal court in New York awarded summary judgment to Hofstra University, dismissing claims of sexual harassment and retaliation that had been filed by Lauren Summa, former student manager of the football team. Summa, you’ll recall from pr...more

OCR Trades School District Complaints for Statewide Review
by Title IX Blog
posted May 5, 2011 at 11:09am

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has received more than a hundred complaints against school districts in Washington state since fall, all alleging violations of Title IX in the schools' athletics departments. Recently, however, the f...more

What You Should Know: 2009-10 NCAA Race and Gender Demographics Report
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted May 4, 2011 at 5:57pm

The NCAA recently released its Race and Gender Demographics Report for 2009-10, which measures annually the composition of NCAA member institutions’ administrative and coaching staffs. The report shows significant increases in the number of administrat...more

More thoughts on Title IX, football and proportionality
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted May 4, 2011 at 3:05pm

Tweet Quite a bit has transpired since I wrote here last week about the growing clamor over Title IX and the proportionality debate that isn’t new, but has taken on a fresh dimension: • First of all, in a column that slams the graft and corruption...more

Title IX Compliance: Why can't we just stop counting football?
by After Atalanta
posted May 3, 2011 at 5:01pm

Because I said so.I know that is the mom response. But it is actually true.Last week's NYT piece about the ways in which schools not-so-subtly manipulate their roster numbers to make it appear that they are closer to providing equitable opportunities than...more

NCAA Gender Equity Issues Forum
by Title IX Blog
posted May 3, 2011 at 3:52pm

Greetings from Bethesda, where I'm attending the NCAA's Gender Equity Issues Conference. This is a great annual event that brings together gender equity experts and athletic department staff from colleges around the country to talk about Title IX and gen...more

Confronting Sexual Abuse and Harassment by Sport Coaches: A Need for a National Effort
by mhueter
posted May 3, 2011 at 1:19pm

This NEW white paper was passed along to us by Donna Lopiano, Ph.D., President of Sports Management Resources. It was developed by members of the "Project to Address Coach-Athlete Sexual Harassment and Abuse", a group of former athletes and sport adm...more

Brown to cut sports--or maybe not
by Title IX Blog
posted May 3, 2011 at 12:16am

It's been a big news week generally and in Title IX land. We apologize for not keeping up.Last week I kept meaning to write about how a Brown University committee was recommending the elimination of four sports from the varsity roster: wrestling, men's an...more

Mediation in UD track complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted April 30, 2011 at 10:45pm

News out of Delaware: the University has agreed to mediation in an attempt to obtain an Early Complaint Resolution. If mediation is unsuccessful (supporters of the men's track team have said the only satisfactory resolution is reinstatement) OCR will go f...more

Did I Ask? Why men have an uncontrollable urge to offer running advice
by RunLikeAGirl
posted April 30, 2011 at 12:09pm

...on men's uncontrollable urge to advise......more

Update on U of Minnesota lesbian golf coach discrimination lawsuit
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 28, 2011 at 1:48pm

Here is an update on the lawsuit filed by former University of Minnesota Women's golf coach, Katie Brenny. I first wrote about this situation on December 13. I do not know the facts of the case, but it is preposterous to me to think that a young lesbian ...more

Roster management = cheating. Will we ever enforce Title IX?
by Fair Game News
posted April 28, 2011 at 12:33am

By Laura Pappano Last July when Federal District Court Judge Stefan Underhill found Quinnipiac University violated Title IX, in part, because it counted cheerleading as a varsity sport, most of the debate was about – you guessed it: Is cheerleading a s...more

The real elephant of Title IX sports compliance
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted April 27, 2011 at 8:41pm

Tweet Toward the end of Tuesday’s story in The New York Times detailing how some schools “fudge” female participation numbers to reach Title IX compliance, former Syracuse athletics director Jake Crouthamel uttered a sentence that has long reflecte...more

Color me not surprised on Title IX compliance
by After Atalanta
posted April 27, 2011 at 3:27pm

Have I used this title before? Probably.My little world was abuzz yesterday with the news that colleges manipulate their roster numbers to make it appear they are closer to gender equity than they really are.The NYT published a report on the issue noting ...more

More on the Delaware track team complaint
by Title IX Blog
posted April 27, 2011 at 2:49pm

The complaint filed with OCR by those trying to save the Delaware men's track team remains in the news this week. And Erin was asked to comment on the situation for The News Journal in an article in which we learned more about the complaint and motivation...more

Deceptive roster management threatens integrity of Title IX
by NACWAA Blog: Inspiring Perspectives
posted April 26, 2011 at 6:35pm

A recent New York Times article, “College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity,” highlights roster manipulation, a disturbing practice utilized by colleges and universities across the country to comply with Title IX. In order to ach...more

Two steps backwards for female athletes
by One Sport Voice
posted April 26, 2011 at 3:58pm

2 Steps to Nowhere are Better Than 2 Steps Back Today I came across two articles in the New York Times related to female athletes and women’s sport. Neither contains good news and in fact both articles highlight that despite gains made in the post Ti...more

The IOC draws a line in the sand of sex (But only for women)
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted April 26, 2011 at 2:52pm

On April 5 the International Olympic Committee released new rules for determining whether or not women who have higher than usual levels of naturally produced testosterone will be eligible to compete in women’s sports. Though the IOC denies it, it seem...more

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