A Blackboard module focused on Title IX for all but first year students was quietly activated without notification from the university, which should have alerted students that the module is mandatory and serves to inform them. This week, students will...
Further education and increased awareness on sexual assault, and language that promotes it, is needed to end this unacceptable and illegal behavior many individuals continue to be victims of.In 2005, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spoke...
DeKALB | As of Feb. 2015, 40 percent of NCAA women athletics were being coached by women, compared to 1972, the year Title IX was introduced, when more than 90 percent of women athletics were being coached by women.Title IX states no person in the U.S....
Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law the Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act, which creates a set protocol on how public colleges across the state handle sexual assault.The act, signed Aug. 21, creates stricter requirements on how public universities,...
NIU is changing its training and policies in an effort to improve how it prevents sexual assault and to better support survivors.NIU has already mandated online training for sexual assault awareness for incoming freshmen and transfer students. By May,...
Since 1972, women's athletics has been on a journey from athletic afterthoughts to prime time players. The fact remains, however, it has only been 38 years since Title IX originally gave women the legal right to play sports at any federally-funded school,...
