"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
Katrina Jagodinsky will be teaching a course for Fall 2022 covering the history of the Title IX bill in celebration of the landmark legislation's 50th anniversary. The course, "History of the Present (HIST112)," fulfills an ACE 5 Humanities credit and can be taken for HIST or WGS credit.
"Title IX implementation has varied widely in its 50-year history," she said, "and our course will explore its many facets together. Widely associated with gender equity in athletics and with sexual assault and harassment policy at the collegiate level, Title IX impacts administrative, curricular, employment, and funding policies at all levels of education."
The legislation was co-authored by Birch Bayh of Indiana and Husker alumna Patsy Mink.
"Title IX is also part of a suite of legislative reforms aimed to expand educational access and employment equity for women over the past 50 years that are important to acknowledge," Jagodinsky, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of History, added. She recently received a Mentoring Award from the College of Arts and Sciences, which honors exemplary mentoring activities.
Students can conduct research in partnership with public Title IX programming while learning more about the history of education, employment law, and gender equality in higher education and K-12 settings.
