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Delaware State Reinstates Women’s Equestrian Team in Legal Battle
Facing scrutiny over possible Title IX violations, Delaware State University has agreed to reinstate their women’s equestrian program through 2010-11 after having announced its elimination earlier this year for budgetary reasons. In February, the Lady Hornet equestrians filed for a preliminary injunction order to preserve the team and ensure its presence at Delaware State University. In February, the Lady Hornet equestrians filed for a preliminary injunction order to preserve the team and ensure its presence at Delaware State University.
Women
Civil Rights Commission Probes Possible Gender Bias at Colleges
A federal civil rights agency investigating possible gender discrimination in college admissions will subpoena data from more than a dozen mid-Atlantic universities, officials said Thursday.
Sports
NCAA Women of Color Symposium Launches Recruitment and Retention Strategy Campaign
A recent NCAA report showed that ethnic minority women make up only 1.6 percent of athletic directors at institutions involved in intercollegiate athletics at the Division I, II and III levels – including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Drop HBCUs from the equation and the rate falls under 1 percent.
Sports
V is for Victory. So is IX.
V is for Victory. So is IX. is a national campaign to increase the effectiveness of Title IX.  Enacted in 1972, Title IX is a federal law addressing equality in education, academics and sports. The campaign is being launched by the Women’s Sports Foundation, the Women’s Law Project of Philadelphia, the California Women’s Law […]
Sports
A Pioneer of Collegiate Women’s Sports
North Carolina State University’s Kay Yow has amassed an impressive win-loss record, but to her players she’s more than a coach.
Leadership & Policy
New Study: Men’s Football, Basketball Programs Limit Other Men’s Sports, Not Title IX
Another men’s college wrestling program is discontinued and familiar accusations fly: it’s the fault of Title IX and money being spent on women’s sports. Time and again critics point to Title IX as the reason for cuts in men’s sports.
Sports
Despite Record Female Participation in Athletics, Percentage of Women Coaches Declines
Coaching women’s sports has become a man’s world.
Sports
NCAA Addresses Gender Equity: Where Do We Go From Here?
“An area within women’s intercollegiate athletics that hasn’t had a voice is the status of women of color,” says Charlotte F. Westerhaus, NCAA vice president for diversity and inclusion.
Sports
NCAA Gives Texas A&M $100,000 Grant to Study Diversity Practices in College Athletics
In an effort to promote diversity in Division I athletics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has given Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport a $100,000 grant to identify colleges and universities that develop outstanding diversity practices in their athletic departments. Texas A&M’s Laboratory for Diversity in Sport will use the grant to conduct research, […]
Sports
Presidents Play Key Role in Spreading Diversity in College Coaching Ranks
NASHVILLE Tenn. University of Cincinnati president Nancy Zimpher has hired a football coach, men’s basketball coach and women’s basketball coach in the past 16 months. What she wanted in candidates couldn’t have been clearer. “I think the athletic director knew not even to bring the pool to me until it was representative,” Zimpher said Friday […]
Sports
Supreme Court won’t hear Dorrance sexual harassment lawsuit
RALEIGH N.C. The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition Monday to hear arguments in the sexual harassment case against the women’s soccer coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, knocking down the final legal barrier to a jury trial.
Students
NCAA Committee Addresses the Issue of Pregnancy in Student-Athletes
In July, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics reviewed concerns about how female student-athletes are being treated if they become pregnant.
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