Title IX

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• SOURCE: Christianity Today
  1/13/2023
  

  Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Gets Court Win on Exemptions to Discrimination Law

  A judge dismissed a lawsuit by LGBTQ students that challenged the faith-based exemptions that Christian colleges can claim from enforcement of antidiscrimination laws. 

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• 7/3/2022
  

  Excerpt: INAUGURAL BALLERS: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team

  by Andrew Maraniss

  “Win this game,” Billie Moore told her team, “and it will change women’s sports in this country for the next twenty-five years.”

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• How We Told the Ongoing Story of Title IX

  by Laura Mogulescu

  A curator and her team chose to center the work of activists who pushed to determine the scope and meaning of Title IX's prohibition on sex discrimination in education throughout the law's 50-year history. Their exhibit is now open at the New-York Historical Society.

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• SOURCE: New York Historical Society
  4/7/2022
  

  "Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field" Coming to NYHS in May

  The exhibition features images, objects, and documents drawn from New-York Historical’s Women’s Sports Foundation and Billie Jean King’s archives.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  2/10/2022
  

  When Professors Close Ranks

  by Claire Bond Potter

  If administrations can't be counted on to support student victims of sexual harassment, faculty need to be prepared to defend students and help them defend themselves by whatever means necessary. 

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• 2/10/2022
  

  Historians on the Harvard Sexual Harassment Scandal

  Two competing open letters pitted Harvard faculty against each other over discipline imposed on anthropology professor John Comaroff. Then a federal lawsuit made the full range of accusations against the professor and the university public. 

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• SOURCE: Insurrect: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies
  2/10/2022
  

  Notes from a Grad School Survivor

  by Kellen Heniford

  This week's revelations of sexual harassment and institutional complicity at Harvard are striking a chord with women academics because they're not surprising. The author discusses her own experiences and the power dynamics stacked against students and survivors.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/9/2022
  

  The Tip of the Iceberg at Harvard?

  Just after 38 Harvard faculty penned an open letter of support for Professor John Comaroff, a lawsuit by three graduate students against him and the university was announced. The allegations describe a repeated pattern of harassment and institutional protection for an abuser.

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• SOURCE: Chicago Tribune
  2/19/2021
  

  Female Faculty Wrote a Brave Letter to Northwestern about Sexual Harassment, Racism Allegations from Cheerleaders.

  “The idea that some of the people taking this class from me might be subjected to the very things we’re discussing, during campus-sanctioned activities,” [History Professor Kate] Masur said, “it’s jarring and disgusting.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/4/19
  

  How the Trump administration’s Title IX proposals threaten to undo #MeToo

  by Ruth Lawlor

  The changes would make campus sexual assault harder to punish, while increasing the burdens on black men.