Title IX - University Libraries

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a federal law that prohibits discrimination, based on sex, in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.

Overview

From the text of the legislation: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of,
or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
U.S. Code (20 USC 1681-1688)

The U.S. Department of Education gives grants of financial assistance to schools and colleges. The Title IX regulation describes the conduct that violates Title IX. Examples of the types of discrimination that are covered under Title IX include sexual harassment; the failure to provide equal opportunity in athletics; discrimination in a school’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses and programs; and discrimination based on pregnancy. The Title IX regulation is enforced by The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and is in the code of federal regulations at 34 CFR Part 106.

Links

Web Links

Title IX Info – A campaign advancing gender equality in education programs. This comprehensive site includes history and current developments in a variety of areas covered by Title IX.
Title IX Blog – An interdisciplinary resource for news, legal developments, commentary, and scholarship about Title IX.
Title IX, Implicit Bias, and Gender Issues – A faculty toolkit that includes Title IX resources, assignment ideas, and examples of faculty activism.
Teaching Tolerance: Title IX at 40 – A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Includes a link to a Title IX ‘toolkit’.

Government Agencies

U.S. Dept. of Education, Office for Civil Rights – The mission of the Office for Civil Rights is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation by vigorous enforcement of civil rights. This office has primary responsibility for enforcing Title IX’s provisions with respect to recipients of federal education funds.more…
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division Publishes the Title IX Legal Manual, designed to be an abstract of general principles and issues for use by various federal agencies charged with enforcing Title IX.

Clarkson’s Title IX Coordinator

If you have questions or concerns about Title IX that are not addressed in these pages, you are encouraged to contact your school’s Title IX Coordinator.

Every school or school district that receives federal funding is required to designate and/or adequately train at least one employee to coordinate the recipient’s Title IX responsibilities.

Clarkson University, Title IX Coordinator
Jennifer Ball
Assistant Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences
President, AAUW St. Lawrence County Branch
jball@clarkson.edu
315-268-4208

Quick Facts

Other Resources

EEOC and Sexual Harassment

Research & Advocacy Organizations

Reports, Documents, & Statistics

A Bibliography of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and its Impact on Intercollegiate Athletics – authored by Christine I. Hepler, Associate Director, Gabrecht Law Library, University of Maine School of Law, 2009
Equity in Athletics Data Analysis Cutting Tool – from the U.S. Department of Education
Faces of Title IX – a project of the National Women’s Law Center
Know Your Rights and Your College’s Responsibilities: Title IX and Sexual Assault – published by the ACLU Women’s Rights Project.
Title IX at 40 – An Interview With Billie Jean King – by Martha Burk, Huffington Post, June 2012
Title IX Athletics: Accommodating Interests and Abilities. A briefing report sponsored by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, February 2010.
Title IX Enforcement Highlights – from the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, June 2012
Women’s Participation in the Sciences Has Increased, but Agencies Need to Do More to Ensure Co