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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 3606797, member: 549"] [MEDIA=twitter]1281266647102341121[/MEDIA] [URL='https://outline.com/LgjWFD'][B]Alternate Access Link<[/B][/URL] >>UConn women's rowing coach Jen Sanford said she isn't looking for a villain to blame for the school's cost-cutting decision to eliminate her program. She just wants to find a way to save the athletic opportunities her program provides for about 60 women each year. That is why she is exploring the possibility of a Title IX lawsuit.<< >>Valerie McMurtrie Bonnette is a former equal opportunity specialist with the federal Office for Civil Rights who now consults with schools on Title IX issues. She said just because UConn is eliminating a large women's team doesn't mean it is violating the federal civil rights law, which was enacted in the 1970s to ensure equal opportunities for women in education, including in athletics. “When schools are cutting women's teams along with men's teams, the goal is participation proportionate to enrollment,” she said. “A lot of schools are cutting teams right now. It's a very difficult time for all schools.”<< >>Elaine Lee is a sports science professor at UConn who rowed there as an undergraduate and later served as an assistant coach. She said the team routinely has one of the top GPAs in the athletic department, is among the most racially diverse and has produced numerous doctors, lawyers and other leaders in their fields. “I know hard decisions have to be made,” she said. “But we have a community that is well connected to potential donors if there's an opportunity for that. So we're waiting to see what we can do, if anything." To save the program, the team would need to raise enough money to endow it, at an estimated cost of $1.4 million a year, and to find a way to add back male scholarships to keep gender proportionality.<< [/QUOTE]

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