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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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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Time Magazine once referred to Jackson as “perhaps the ultimate role model for women in science.” I believed we’re going to live out Title IX,” she said. She taught in the physics section for two years, leaving when she became immersed in her doctoral research. There was pressure to make the whole athletic program one division.

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Hazing prevention to be reviewed at New Mexico State

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He went on to detail what he described as a “deficiency” when it comes to complaints like those filed with an institution’s Title IX office, though it wasn’t clear if Arvizu was referring to the specific hazing alleged to have occurred within the men’s basketball program. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Director of well-being adds wellness tools to campus

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Cross-Campus Collaboration Prior to this role, Recktenwald worked in Penn’s Title IX office and most recently in the Office of Alcohol and Other Drugs Programs Initiatives. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Belmont University hires new VP of hope, unity and belonging

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He and his team will be responsible for managing Title IX compliance and sexual misconduct prevention and all nondiscrimination and equity work. He will oversee the office and its staff members, including the director of institutional equity and Title IX coordinator and a new equity compliance specialist.

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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 But during the 2021-22 academic year concerns about diversity in leadership surfaced.

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Lawsuit alleges Title IX complaint drove cadet to suicide

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” The lawsuit alleges “anti-male bias” and an “unfair and unjust” process under Title IX, the law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal funding. The institution’s Title IX director at the time, Vineeta Dhillon, is also a named defendant.