Educational Amendments: Title IX

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reaching the House or Senate floors. In 1975 the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare had drafted the regulations for Title IX, including one section, which dealt with athletics. It requires institutions to "effectively accommodate the interests and abilities of members of both sexes(Cooper 2003)." This required drastic changes. Athletic facilities and support services for men and women now had to be provided on an equal basis. No longer could you focus all your marketing on male sports while ignoring the female sports. The same went for the facilities requiring that all locker rooms and playing fields be equal in quality.
Since the acceptance of Title IX the entire scope of high school and college athletics has changed dramatically. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, in 1971 there was approximately 3.7 million boys participating in high school sports but only 294,000 girls. In 2002, 3,960,517 boys participated but girls' participation ...

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is "fully and effectively" accommodating the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex (Reynolds 2003). The Departments Office for Civil Rights (OCR) encourages schools to look at the three-prong test and consider which of the tests best suits their institution. This allows each institution to have a range of flexibility in complying with Title IX. Although it seems that many schools felt the need to go along with the substantial proportionality prong and felt it was the only way to comply. This is what has led to the cutting of many men's programs in order to get the numbers to be equal to that of the student body. In fact, OCR is attempting to make it clear that each of ...

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