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25 years ago
1982 — The satisfactory-progress rule is applied for the first time during the 1982-83 academic year. Legislation sponsored by the NCAA Council at the 1981 Convention established the first national policy requiring student-athletes to make satisfactory progress toward a degree. Under the provisions of Bylaw 5-1-(j)-(6), student-athletes were required to complete an average of 12 hours each term or 24 semester hours between seasons of competition.
1982 (April 30) — The NCAA News increases its frequency to 46 issues annually from 18 and begins accepting advertising for the first time in its 17-year history. Other features also are added, such as basketball and football statistics, special sports previews, reports on trends and issues of national significance, and more opinion and editorial columns.
10 years ago
1997 (April 21) — The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of Cohen v. Brown, a prominent Title IX case involving Brown University. The case began in 1991 when the university imposed budget cuts on the athletics program and eliminated funding for men’s golf and water polo and for women’s gymnastics and volleyball. Women athletes claimed the decision violated Title IX.
A U.S. district court found in March 1995 that the university did not meet any part of the three-part Title IX compliance test prescribed by the Office for Civil Rights and was therefore violated the law. The district court decision was upheld in November 1996 by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Deborah L. Brake, senior counsel for the National Women’s Law Center and a member of the legal team that represented the women athletes before the appeals court, said the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case effectively ended the lawsuit.
“Now that the Supreme Court has rejected Brown’s challenge, I think it’s very unlikely that another circuit will split off. It is extremely unlikely that the court will ever hear a case challenging the three-part test because there is no confusion about the law,” said Brake.
1982 — The satisfactory-progress rule is applied for the first time during the 1982-83 academic year. Legislation sponsored by the NCAA Council at the 1981 Convention established the first national policy requiring student-athletes to make satisfactory progress toward a degree. Under the provisions of Bylaw 5-1-(j)-(6), student-athletes were required to complete an average of 12 hours each term or 24 semester hours between seasons of competition.
1982 (April 30) — The NCAA News increases its frequency to 46 issues annually from 18 and begins accepting advertising for the first time in its 17-year history. Other features also are added, such as basketball and football statistics, special sports previews, reports on trends and issues of national significance, and more opinion and editorial columns.
10 years ago
1997 (April 21) — The U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal of Cohen v. Brown, a prominent Title IX case involving Brown University. The case began in 1991 when the university imposed budget cuts on the athletics program and eliminated funding for men’s golf and water polo and for women’s gymnastics and volleyball. Women athletes claimed the decision violated Title IX.
A U.S. district court found in March 1995 that the university did not meet any part of the three-part Title IX compliance test prescribed by the Office for Civil Rights and was therefore violated the law. The district court decision was upheld in November 1996 by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Deborah L. Brake, senior counsel for the National Women’s Law Center and a member of the legal team that represented the women athletes before the appeals court, said the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case effectively ended the lawsuit.
“Now that the Supreme Court has rejected Brown’s challenge, I think it’s very unlikely that another circuit will split off. It is extremely unlikely that the court will ever hear a case challenging the three-part test because there is no confusion about the law,” said Brake.
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