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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The players competed with intensity, but audiences and media coverage can’t compare. 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. Holzman noted that the host bid contained the joint championships.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The firm is consulted by colleges and universities on DEI and Title IX issues, but often such requests come after a complaint has been filed. “We An example is Sprouts Farmers Market, a grocery store chain that wanted to do a campaign related to Title IX with nine women. The athletes that are thriving in this space.

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U.S. Department of Education reaffirms Baylor’s religious exemption in response to sexual harassment complaints

University Business

She said she received similar comments from peers on social media. While she was a student at Baylor, Veronica Bonifacio Penales found sticky notes with homophobic slurs on her dorm room door. Read more from The Texas Tribune. The post U.S.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Lawsuit Alleges Retaliation by New Mexico State University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Laura Castille, who also served as the university’s Title IX coordinator, alleges that she was forced to resign last year after reporting that a New Mexico State system administrator, Vice Chancellor Ruth Johnston, improperly helped a “close ally” land a chief auditor position. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Jackson leveraged her knowledge of physics to advance telecommunications research at Bell Laboratories, which influenced the creation of the portable fax, the touch-tone phone and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting,” the Black digital media publication notes. I believed we’re going to live out Title IX,” she said.

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