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Ryan NicolNovember 19, 2018

State Sen. Lauren Book says new proposals by the Department of Education to change the process for universities handling sexual harassment claims will ultimately be bad for victims. In short, new rules proposed by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reduces the types of claims universities are required to investigate. And in those cases that are […]

Ryan NicolMay 23, 2018

Call it “I’m rubber, you’re glue” media criticism. Florida Atlantic University is hitting back at Palm Beach Post reporter Kenny Jacoby for what the university calls “inaccurate and misleading” coverage of the school’s own erroneous reporting of its number of female athletes. That’s after the Post caught FAU filing a false report with the Department of Education. Here’s the […]

Susan WashingtonFebruary 17, 2017

The black-robed justices who filed solemnly into a courtroom at the University of Florida law school Thursday morning were not the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, but they were announced as if they were. “All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 3, 2016

School may be ending soon throughout Florida’s 4th Congressional District, but there’s no summer vacation when it comes to politicizing the issue of school bathrooms. On Friday, CD 4 Republican candidate Bill McClure issued a statement expressing “outrage” over a “federal directive on Florida and the country, forcing schools to allow transgender students to use the […]

A.G. GancarskiMay 13, 2016

Many conservatives on the national level have strongly critiqued Barack Obama‘s decision to link Title IX school funds to a mandate for transgender bathrooms. At least one prominent conservative in Northeast Florida is equally piqued over the directive to require public accommodations for transgender students to allow them to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity. […]

Melissa RossMarch 11, 2016

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The University of North Florida and its former women’s basketball coach Mary Tappmeyer have announced a settlement in Tappmeyer’s sex discrimination and retaliation claims associated with her termination from UNF in March 2015. UNF will pay Tappmeyer $1.25 million to settle her claims, according to attorneys representing Tappmeyer. She left the program as the only […]

Jim RosicaJanuary 25, 2016

Florida State University has agreed to pay $250,000 to the former student who alleged that then-Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston raped her in December 2012. The university announced the move in a prepared statement, released Monday, that was quick to note the school was also paying Erica Kinsman‘s lawyers $700,000. Among her legal counsel, she is represented by […]

Guest AuthorOctober 26, 2014

Recent sports news has been filled with stories about racism, gender violence, child abuse, and concussion-related brain damage for one in three former NFL players. But these bad stories have helped the public focus on broader societal problems. Since Roger Goodell became the NFL commissioner in 2006, law enforcement authorities have pursued 50 domestic-violence cases […]

Guest AuthorAugust 25, 2014

As someone who has worked for institutions of higher education for more than four decades, it is especially embarrassing for me that colleges have the worst record in sports for hiring women and people of color. UCF’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport released the 2013 College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card this […]

Guest AuthorApril 14, 2014

Many people love college sports. No. Many people are obsessed with college sports. They wear their colors, paint their cars college colors, names their dogs or even their children after their favorite coaches. They live and breathe their college! Big-time college sports make big-time money. The National Labor Relations Board ruled on March 26 that […]

Tag: Title IX

Lauren Book bashes federal proposal to change Title IX sexual harassment rules

FAU tries to even score with Palm Beach Post after critical story

In mock court, UF law students argue case echoing infamous FSU ‘Jane Doe’ lawsuit

CD 4 Republican Bill McClure: ‘Outraged’ by presidential directive on school bathrooms

Lake Ray says Barack Obama’s transgender school bathroom position is unconstitutional

UNF, former women’s basketball coach settle Title IX lawsuit for $1.25 million

FSU to pay nearly $1 million to settle Erica Kinsman lawsuit

Richard Lapchick: Sports scandals put focus on many of society’s problems

Richard Lapchick: The failure of college sport as an equal opportunity employer

Jamie Miller: Unionizing college athletes will destroy college sports

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