WASHINGTON, DC – Join Title IX experts Dr. Donna Lopiano, Lisa Maatz and Olympian Nancy Hogshead-Makar, along with NCAA President Myles Brand and premier Title IX researcher Dr. John Cheslock, Thursday at 1:00 pm EST for an audio teleconference on the upcoming Commission on Civil Rights briefing on Title IX Athletics: Accommodating Interest and Abilities.
Rather than focusing on the gender inequalities that continue to plague female athletes, the Commission has decided to address the Department of Education’s (DOE) 2005 “Clarification” – a policy document that opens a huge loophole for schools that want to shirk their responsibility to provide equal sports opportunities for their female students. This “Clarification” conflicts with longstanding DOE policy, violates basic principles of equality under the law and threatens to reverse the enormous progress women and girls have made in sports since the enactment of Title IX. Given this Administration’s repeated attempts to undermine basic Title IX principles, the briefing scheduled by the Commission on Civil Rights is of significant concern to Title IX advocates. Jocelyn Samuels, Vice President for Education and Employment for the National Women’s Law Center, and Judy Sweet, NCAA Consultant/Senior Vice President 2001-2006, are testifying at the hearing.
An advanced copy of their testimonies are available at http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/Testimony%20for%20US%20Commission%20on%20Civil% and http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/ed_outreach/gender_equity/homepage.html, respectively.
For a complete Questions & Answers on Title IX, please refer to http://wsf-staging.mediapolis.com/cgi-bin/iowa/issues/disc/article.html?record=1191.
For more information on the NCWGE, please go to http://www.ncwge.org/.
This teleconference will address the primary problems with the Clarification. A transcript of the teleconference will be made available to media.
WHAT: Audio Press Briefing on upcoming Commission on Civil Rights hearings on Title IX Athletics: Accommodating Interest and Abilities
WHEN: Thursday, May 10 at 1:00 pm Eastern
NUMBER: Contact AAUW for dial-in and passcode.
WHO: Myles Brand, Ph.D., President, NCAA
- John Cheslock, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Center for Study of Higher Education, University of Arizona
- Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Assistant Professor of Law, Florida Coastal School of Law and Olympic triple gold medalist in swimming
- Donna Lopiano, Ph.D., CEO, Women’s Sports Foundation
- Lisa Maatz, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations Interim Director, AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund
