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Cutting Sports and Cutting Corners: The Effect of COVID-19 Sport Cuts on Title IX Compliance

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: College sports changed in March 2020 due to the fiscal impact of multiple seasons of lost revenue and increased health and safety costs created in part by a global pandemic. In the year following, NCAA institutions often looked to eliminating sponsorship of athletic teams to cut costs during a time of such financial instability. This article examines the impact of sport cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic on equity in participation opportunities, ultimately noting whether each institution that eliminated sports would likely be compliant with Title IX. Title IX was passed more than 50 years ago, and many colleges and universities are still non-compliant in providing equitable participation opportunities. College athletics is currently in a period of rapid change and fiscal uncertainty; this research provides a reminder and a road map for institutions to make programming decisions that will be compliant with Title IX in the future.

Source: Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport

DOI: 10.18060/28393

Authors: Katherine E. Hallahan, Barbara Osborne

Institutions: University of Massachusetts Boston, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Sports, Gender, and Society

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4407853113

FWCI: 1.899

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