UNC-Chapel Hill’s Embarrassing Problem
Admitting athletes who aren’t prepared for college work is a recipe for cheating.
The Trouble with Title IX
Jan 3, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 purports to guarantee nondiscrimination in education. Nevertheless, it has been subject to a succession of bureaucratic “interpretations” that have practically twisted it into the legal trappings of a quota system. It may now be poised for reform.
Of Title IX and 30 years of bureaucratic miasma
May 31, 2002 ·
Jon Sanders
Just from reading the preamble to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, one would not suspect it was the preamble to 30 years’ of controversy, fights over interpretation, compliance tests, and the noxious slew of bureaucratic miasma that followed: “No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal aid.”
Cut Athletic Scholarships, Reduce Number of Athletic Contests, Professors Say
Apr 6, 2000 ·
Martin Center Staff
A group of professors from across the United States wants to reform college athletics and expose the corruption behind college sports.
‘If You Were Governor, What Would You Do?’
Jul 22, 1999 ·
Martin Center Staff
“The pathway to success is to keep the doors of our colleges and universities open to all, and to open them even wider,” North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt said in a recent editorial to The Chronicle of Higher Education, a national magazine that examines news and issues concerning colleges and universities nationwide. Hunt’s editorial appeared in the “Opinion & Arts” section of the July 16, 1999 edition of The Chronicle.