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Jury Awards $5.85 Million in Fresno State Discrimination Suit

FRESNO Calif. A jury on Monday awarded a former Fresno State volleyball coach $5.85 million in damages, ruling that the school discriminated against her for speaking up on behalf of female athletes.

Title IX: does help for women come at the expense of African Americans?

Gender equity has created an intriguing set of circumstances in the world of college athletics.

Former nun invokes Title IX in bias battle against Gannon U.

DATELINE: ERIE Pa. A former Catholic nun whose discrimination claim against Gannon University was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court is trying revive it by invoking a law best known for requiring schools to provide equal athletic opportunities for men and women.

Attorney: LSU has paid settlement money

BATON ROUGE La. LSU has paid former women’s basketball coach Pokey Chatman the $160,000 owed her as a result of a recent contract settlement following her resignation.

Leadership & Policy

Sporting a new look – Historically Black colleges and universities promote sports

There is a new dimension to athletics that is taking shape at some of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

Sports, competition and society – athletic and academic competition seen as outcome of a competitive society

Sixty-four teams from historically Black colleges and universities competed on the basis of their knowledge at the Honda Campus All-Star Classic in Orlando FL. The final four competition was as intense as the basketball classic, and Black America’s best and brightest strutted their intellectual stuff as confidently as star basketball players strut their gamesmanship.

Chasing More Than Just Wins

Black women coaches hope to inspire the next generation of athletes.

Black Women Coaches Hope to Inspire the Next Generation

Recent appointments of Black women coaches – like that of Cochese Washington at Penn State – raise the profile of African American women in Division I athletics, and provide hope and inspiration to the next generation.

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The Prevalence of Black Females In College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion

If you had a chance to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, you probably noticed that 80 percent of the starters for Rutgers and Tennessee were non-White.

Scholars Debate Effectiveness of Single-Sex Classes

Leah Hasty was looking to provide a male role model for Black boys enrolled in the Baltimore public elementary school where she was principal…

Federal Officials Ease Limits On Same-sex Schools

WASHINGTON The Bush administration is giving public schools wider latitude to teach boys and girls separately in what is considered the biggest change to coed classrooms in more than three decades.

More Single-sex Public Schools Likely Under Expected Rule Change

In Travis Brown’s sixth-grade class, they’re making robots — more than a dozen boys standing around work stations, chatting among themselves as they chop cardboard with scissors or glance at comic books for inspiration.

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