Title IX and Athletics: Practical Ways to Comply

June 15, 2011

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Overview

Learn efficient ways to ensure Title IX compliance.

Many athletic administrators and other campus officers have a basic knowledge of Title IX but struggle with ensuring they are in compliance due to various constraints (budget, equal interest in women's sports, protocols, etc.). This archived webcast will provide a clear primer about Title IX with specific practical suggestions for compliance.

Whether you have very little or extensive Title IX experience, and regardless of your institution's athletic level, competitive goals, or resources, this archived webcast will provide practical ideas for achieving and maintaining compliance. A downloadable checklist will be provided to assist you in remembering and applying these lessons.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Athletic administrators from all NCAA, NAIA, and NJCAA institutions; faculty athletics representatives; and non-athletics administrators who have athletics responsibilities or who are concerned with Title IX's application to athletics.

Agenda

Learning Outcome:

After viewing this archived webcast, you will be able to identify efficient ways to comply with Title IX in your intercollegiate athletics program.

Recorded on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 :: 90 minutes

Introduction and overview
Issues of the day: Examples from four basic areas of Title IX compliance that are common to all institutions, with a Q&A opportunity in each section:
- How do we define - and achieve - participation objectives for men's and women's teams?
- How do we find the resources we need, and how do we know that we're using them correctly and effectively?
- How do we integrate planning and budgeting for Title IX purposes into our overall athletics program?
- How do we integrate Title IX awareness and responsibility into overall and ongoing institutional governance and administration?
Final Q&A: An extended opportunity for questions about the aforementioned "issues" or other issues of interest to the participants

Want more information about this event?

Contact Marla P. Whipple, Senior Conference Director if you'd like additional information about the program agenda.

Instructors

Jeffrey Orleans

Senior Associate

Alden & Associates Inc.

Jeff served as executive director of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents and commissioner of the Ivy League from 1984 to 2009, following nine years as a special assistant to University of North Carolina President William Friday and four years as a federal civil rights attorney, during which time he helped write the original regulation for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. He has been active for many years in governance of the NCAA and in the Collegiate Commissioners Association, as well as in the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and he is a past editor of NACUA's Journal of College and University Law. He was also named an NACUA "Fellow" in 1999. Jeff has been a senior associate at Alden & Associates since fall 2010, and he is also a consultant on financing college athletics with the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. He was a panelist at the spring 2011 NCAA Gender Equity forum, has conducted a number of recent conference and institutional Title IX programs, and speaks and writes frequently about athletic and other issues in higher education.

Andrea "Andi" Seger

Senior Associate

Alden & Associates Inc.

As a long-time athletics administrator in NCAA Division I, Andi focuses on feasibility studies, Title IX reviews, compliance reviews, and strategic planning. Andi had a 27-year career at Ball State University as an assistant professor, assistant athletics trainer, and, starting in 1983, director of intercollegiate athletics for women under the school's split department system. In 1995, after a 12-year tenure heading the women's athletics program, the university combined its men's and women's programs and selected Andi as the first-ever director of intercollegiate athletics for its newly combined program. She served for eight years on the NCAA Committee on Athletic Certification and four years on the NCAA Division I Management Council and served as Interim Executive Director for NACWAA (National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators) from January through March of 2010.

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