The Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education has informed Temple University in Philadelphia that it has launched a Title IX investigation of the university's athletic programs. Recently, the university announced the elimination of five men's and two women's varsity sports.
Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, announced that it is adding women's softball as a varsity sport. It is also adding athletic scholarships for women in fencing, rowing, swimming and diving, and track and field.
The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education has published a 72-page booklet describing the progress that has been made since Title IX was enacted.
Women made up nearly 60 percent of the undergraduate students at Butler University in Indianapolis. But women were only 36.5 percent of the university's student athletes.
The Education Department concluded that "women made up 49.7 percent of the student body, but were provided only 28.9 percent of the athletic opportunities."
