title ix training

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On Internet:
What is Title IX  –  In 1972 an amendment was devised for the national education system: “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.”    (CUT AND PASTE)
 
Questions:  Is your college receive Federal FInancial assistance? 
If so, what can they not do according to the Title IX amendment?
Men can be offered a specific program from the college that women can not? Y / N     N
Women can be offered a special scholarship that is only available to a woman?   Y / N     N
 
Why do research on schools violating Title IX? – To practice researching Title IX infractions. On our end, to alert colleges to infractions so they can remedy them. 
 
The Process / Order = Researcher (you) sends to Parth who reviews and then sends to Jim Ellis @ JimEllis1103@Yahoo.com – who may send it forward on depending if you find any indiscretions. If you do, it will move forward in a process that could potentially rectify any violations by the colleges.  


What we research – 1. A School’s Basic Information  2. Sex-specific Scholarships  3. Sex-specific Programs 


Helpful Research Tips:    

  • Here is a litmus test for violations. Consider this:  Ongoing discriminatory single-sex, female-only or male-only programs with a documented history and a documented future.    
    • Question – if a program was offered to both males and females equally would it be infraction of Title IX?
  • Scholarships or programs use the 180-day rule. No need to identify any program or scholarship if it is no longer available and stopped being offered longer than 6 months ago. No need to note any program or scholarship if it ended over 6 months ago.  
    • Question –  if a women only scholarship was offered in 2012 and stopped being offered in 2015, would it be a violation? 
  • For events or programs, if both genders are invited to the event, these are not violations of Title IX.
  • There are such things as Internal scholarships (sponsored by the college) as well as External scholarships (sponsored by an agency outside of the college). Definitely list the “internal” scholarships in your documentation, but you CAN list “external” scholarships IF THEY ARE PROMOTED as single sex by the University website.   
    • Question – A men-only scholarship is offered through a Rotary Organization, not affiliated with the school, targets students at that college. Is this a violation?
  • No need to list scholarship regarding single-sex sports.   
    • Question – Women’s Tennis is offered by the school. Is that an infraction? 
  • No need to list “women’s centers” as a violation of single-sex program.
  • Title IX Overview  https://www.hhs.gov/civil-rights/for-individuals/sex-discrimination/title-ix-education-amendments/index.html
 
HELPFUL DOCUMENTS:
  1. TRAINING Title IX Sex-Specific Search Strategies NOV 2021  (The Search Criteria – How to Do Research)
  2. TRAINING Title IX Project – Search One Sheet NOV 2021  (One pager made simple)
  3. TRAINING Example Title IX Research NOV 2021  (Example of Final Deliverable)
  4. OCR Offices 2021  (For looking up the local Office of Civil Rights)
 
Documentation to use: 
  • Fill out the form using the template: Sex specific Scholarships Programs Example 2021.  Change the filename after filling out the form, before sending it to Jim Ellis.
  • Use the 2 documents as a guide (the One Sheet is a simplified checklist to use) 
  • To determine which Office of Civil Rights to note on the form, use the Excel spreadsheet OCR offices 2021 by looking up the corresponding state in which the college exists.  
 
 
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ACTUAL TRAINING:
 
BASIC  (for CSUN)   NOT NECESSARY?  ASK IF IT IS….
1.     Google USnews plus the school name.   https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/california-state-university-northridge-1153
              i.     Is it “Public” 
ii.     Search for list of Undergraduate students.
iii.     Search for % of students of each gender. 
2.     On school site and Internet:  
i.   University president – email, mailing address, links   https://www.csun.edu/president
ii.  Title IX coordinator with email, mailing address, links https://www.csun.edu/eqd/title-ix-campus-resources 
iii.  Name and title of the General Counsel (the lead legal ) with email, mailing address, and links.  Search CSU general counsel in google:  https://www.calstate.edu/digital-briefing/Pages/office-of-general-council.aspx

iv.  OCR Contact Information. Office of Civil Rights  (See excel sheet “OCR offices 2021”)  

Scholarship Searches  

 
1.     Google search for: university name plus scholarships.   
 
2.     Google search for university plus “male”, ”men”, ”father“, “female”, “women”, or “mother.”   
For Women’s scholarship
FOR MIT     https://web.mit.edu/   and search “women’s scholarship”
Awesome
FOR MIT
https://web.mit.edu  and search “women in stem scholarships”
Second one down.
Go to the University website, and search main list of all scholarships and their subheadings.  CAL STATE LONG BEACH   https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-engineering/scholarships
ALICE AND JP WANG AWARD
Desire to participate in the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
3.     Google “Academic works” plus school name.  Often none.   For Rowan   https://rcgc.academicworks.com/     type in “women.”   https://rcgc.academicworks.com/opportunities/3187    
 
MALE ONLY SCHOLARSHIP  –  You can give it a try. Same thing.                    

 

Program Searches  (For MIT)

Go to Google.
Go to School Website – search “women” “men” male-only  and “women-only” “female” “girl” “mother”
          Go to website for school – https://www.mit.edu
          Type in women    
               Search women in stem.     https://innovation.mit.edu/resource/mit-resources-for-women/
               
        MALE ONLY PROGRAM  – Fullerton –  http://www.fullerton.edu/   Type in Male    male success initiative https://www.fullerton.edu/msi/