Lehigh Football Nation
May 11th, 2007, 03:39 PM
Was looking for information and I stumbled across this blog posting on the NCAA blog (http://www.doubleazone.com/):
Title IX briefing. The United States Commission on Civil Rights is holding a meeting today in Washington, D.C. to discuss the Department of Education’s 2005 “Additional Clarification of Intercollegiate Athletics Policy.” The clarification allows schools to send out an e-mail survey to their student body to determine interest in varsity sports. I know there are bright people who work for the Department of Education, but this clarification is utter nonsense. I delete many surveys I receive in my e-mail box before I even open the attachment. I would suspect most college students ignore the bulk e-mails they receive, and therefore, wouldn’t respond to this e-mail survey either. Does that mean they aren’t interested in athletics opportunities? Absolutely not. The fact that this e-mail survey is used as an indicator of Title IX compliance is embarrassing. I will follow up with details from the hearing in Monday’s coffee.
I'm not sure I know how I feel about this one way or another, but it's interesting that the committee on civil rights is hosting this - and it appears that it will give more leeway to student surveys like he's describing.
Does this sound like a weakening of Title IX? xeyebrowx
Title IX briefing. The United States Commission on Civil Rights is holding a meeting today in Washington, D.C. to discuss the Department of Education’s 2005 “Additional Clarification of Intercollegiate Athletics Policy.” The clarification allows schools to send out an e-mail survey to their student body to determine interest in varsity sports. I know there are bright people who work for the Department of Education, but this clarification is utter nonsense. I delete many surveys I receive in my e-mail box before I even open the attachment. I would suspect most college students ignore the bulk e-mails they receive, and therefore, wouldn’t respond to this e-mail survey either. Does that mean they aren’t interested in athletics opportunities? Absolutely not. The fact that this e-mail survey is used as an indicator of Title IX compliance is embarrassing. I will follow up with details from the hearing in Monday’s coffee.
I'm not sure I know how I feel about this one way or another, but it's interesting that the committee on civil rights is hosting this - and it appears that it will give more leeway to student surveys like he's describing.
Does this sound like a weakening of Title IX? xeyebrowx