The Issue Of Sexual Discrimination On College Campuses

CHAPTER 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) has been key to characterizing the issue of sexual discrimination on college campuses. Today, the force of Title IX has an intense focus on sexual misconduct and is present in the mind of not only the administrators responsible for compliance, but administrators throughout college and university campuses as well. While just a few short years ago it was normally known as the law relating to equity in athletics, this was not even its initial goal. Title IX was made as and remains a comprehensive equity law, not exclusively an athletic equity law. Notwithstanding, its focal part in characterizing athletics set imperative preparation and established the framework for its application to all types of sexual discrimination. As college and universities have been under expanded scrutiny to address sexual discrimination on campus, the force of Title IX related to sexual misconduct has increased. 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