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Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights Announces Resolution of Pregnancy Discrimination Investigation of Troy University in Alabama

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education’s (ED) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has concluded that Troy University did not make reasonable and responsive adjustments responsive to a student’s pregnancy-related adjustment requests during the 2020-21 school year.

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Is Title IX really protecting college students from sexual misconduct on campus?

University Business

This summer, the US Department of Education celebrated 50 years of Title IX while proposing new changes to its regulation. Here are the questions they provided officials: From 1/1/2014 through 12/31/2020, how many reports did your institution receive of a student accused of a Title IX offense? A look at the data.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports.

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Report: Racial and Gender Hiring Practices in College Athletics is Concerning

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in 2020-2021, and 33.2% in 2020-2021. It's hard to believe that in 2022, 51 years after the passage of Title IX, for example, that only 40% of women's teams across all three divisions are coached by women and 50% of the assistant coaches of women's teams are women all these years later,” Lapchick said.

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Open to Change

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By summer, the college had taken decisive action — hiring Donald Jaamal to be dean of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and Title IX coordinator. “In Although the campus community is together again, the mental health issues that students, faculty, and staff have dealt with since 2020 remain.

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Are latest layoffs at this university a first look at the FAFSA fiasco’s consequences?

University Business

. “It remains to be seen what this will do,” he says, “but the impact right now, if you look at FAFSA filing, is shaping up to be very similar to 2020. Very similar.” appeared first on University Business.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Office hours, Title IX, and accommodations offices are required syllabus components, but syllabus statements are also ideal ways to introduce health and counseling services. Ostorga, Zúñiga, & Hinton, 2020), yet less research discusses parallel. Spend time in class discussing them and their uses. institutions? Ostorga, A.N.,

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