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Peer reviewedBrake, Deborah – Community College Journal, 1997
Discusses a Title IX action brought against Rhode Island's Brown University as a result of the university's demotion of two women's varsity teams to unfunded status. Reports that the court rejected Brown's argument that women are less interested in sports than men, ordering it to comply with the law. (AJL)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Athletics, College Students, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedHubin, Dorothea – Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP, 1979
This year AAUP's Committee W continued to move forward with efforts to influence legislation and administrative regulations, particularly in such areas as pension benefits, affirmative action, and Title IX. It is the committee's judgment that the general economic crunch in higher education has affected women disproportionately. (MLW)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Faculty, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Faculty Organizations
Download full textHendrickson, Robert M.; Lee, Barbara A. – 1983
The major legal issues pertaining to academic employment are examined. Four areas affecting higher education are analyzed in depth: employment practices, equal pay, developing issues under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and financial exigency. In addition, guidelines for evaluating current institutional academic employment practices…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Employment Practices
