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2023 Women's College Basketball Another Mile-Marker in Title IX

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Amy Wilson, the NCAA’s managing director of inclusion, said that as the NCAA began laying out its Title IX celebrations, there was no doubt that this should be the culmination. It’s a celebration of all the opportunities that Title IX has provided in education and athletics,” Wilson points out.

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Baylor Confirms Exemption from Title IX Claims

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Department of Education has confirmed that Baylor University, the Baptist research institution in Waco, Texas, is immune from certain Title IX complaints “to the extent that they are inconsistent with the University’s religious tenets,” wrote Catherine E. The confirmation follows other Title IX trouble for Baylor.

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New Book Highlights Systemic Problems in the Title IX Office

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Nicole Bedera discusses her research, which draws on dozens of interviews at one anonymous institution to understand how the Title IX process fails victims.

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Colleges Must Accommodate Pregnant Students Under New Title IX

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Pregnancy was always implicitly protected by Title IX. But Biden’s new rules formalize the rights of pregnant and parenting students, making higher ed more accessible. Lacy Guzman decided to go back to college when she was pregnant with her first child.

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Do ‘Women in STEM’ Programs Violate Title IX?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Do ‘Women in STEM’ Programs Violate Title IX? Liam Knox Fri, 10/13/2023 - 03:00 AM Civil rights complaints against initiatives for women in male-dominated STEM fields are piling up. But it’s not clear that such programs are actually illegal. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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New Title IX Rule Now Blocked in 21 States

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Education Department won’t be able to enforce its new Title IX regulations, set to take effect nationwide Aug. 1, in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska or South Dakota, a federal judge ruled Wednesday evening.

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For Title IX, Beware Diminishing Due Process

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For Title IX, Beware Diminishing Due Process Elizabeth Redden Wed, 05/08/2024 - 11:01 AM Colleges should be wary of adopting weaker due process protections permitted under the new Title IX regulations, T. Markus Funk and Jean-Jacques Cabou write. Byline(s) T. Markus Funk Jean-Jacques Cabou

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