Inside Higher Ed
April 2, 2010
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education should encourage colleges and universities to use what has in the past been a controversial method to determine whether their athletics programs are in compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal panel urged in a report released Thursday.
In its recommendations, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights endorses the department’s “model survey” – an e-mailed or Web-based questionnaire issued by the Office for Civil Rights in 2005 – as “the best method available” to show that an institution is “fully and effectively” meeting the needs of the gender that is underrepresented in its intercollegiate athletics offerings. The survey has been criticized as an option that sets back equity for women in college sports.
The recommendations were approved by four members of the commission, while one member abstained from voting and three others were absent for the vote. Of those who were absent, two -- Arlan D. Melendez and Michael Yaki -- co-wrote a rebuttal to the conclusions. "[B]ecause the process was biased, faulty, and inadequate," they wrote, "it was inevitable that the outcome is misleading."
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