The Three Prongs Title IX requires institutions like EMU to provide equal athletic opportunities for members of both sexes and to effectively and equally accommodate student interests.

For Title IX purposes, generating revenue does not matter. In the eyes of the law, no athlete or team should face discrimination based on sex just because there’s no profit.

In 1971-72, the school year leading up to the passage of Title IX, 294,015 girls took part in high school sports, compared with nearly 3.7 million boys, according to the National Federation of ...

Thirty years after the passage of that one-paragraph civil-rights amendment known as Title IX, many of us and many athletic administrators are still trying to figure out what it says. Like many ...

June 23, 1972 Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act is enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Nixon. ... known as the three-prong test, ...

In 2004, when John Weber arrived at Purdue North Central, the school gauged the interest of its student population the easy way. It sounds easy to simply ask the student population, until you're ...

A Bush administration commission prepared to recommend the most significant changes to Title IX in more than two decades, with several votes Thursday aimed at changing a fundamental plank in the ...

On June 23, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed into law a piece of legislation introduced by a senator from Indiana. Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., authored Title IX with the intention of providing ...

Hare’s specialty is in Title IX and athletics law, and said Title IX has three prongs: equality in participation opportunities, financial aid, and equal benefits.

USA TODAY. Part 1: Title IX’s three-part test. Fifty years ago, the 37 words of Title IX changed the entire landscape of education and student rights to a fair and equal education, largely ...

The trial and ruling looked at the “three-prong test” related to Title IX: Substantial proportionality, meaning a school’s ratio of female participation in athletics is close to the ratio of ...

The district’s argument on the first prong is contrary to what the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights rejected in a 1996 clarification of Title IX, so it was appropriate ...