Title IX.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the administrative history of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, Southern Region II. The AIAW Southern Region II included collegiate institutions from Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia so most documents originate from the aforementioned states. The materials highlight the AIAW and its Southern Region II's formation in 1972, their ten year existence, and eventual dissolution in 1983. The types of items in this...

Scope and Contents The Athletic Director's Office Records documents the evolution of athletics at Eastern Kentucky University, as well as the activities of team and individual sports programs. Also documented is the effect of Title IX on sports participation at the university. The collection includes statistics, scorebooks, schedules, scrapbooks, programs, correspondence, meeting minutes, press releases, news clippings, media guides, and other information related to the athletics department at Eastern Kentucky...

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This collection offers a good overall picture of the Women's Gymnastics Program at EKU during its short history. It includes photographs, news clippings, schedules, rosters and correspondence for every year of the program's existence. Program objectives, rules and routine requirements, statistics and even poetry written by and in honor of the gymnasts can also be found in this collection. Anyone interested in women's athletics at Eastern will find this collection useful.

Abstract The documents in this collection represent the dedicated grassroots movement that local girls and women's sports advocates developed in response to the sports equity component of the Title IX Statute of the Educational Amendments of 1972. The Kentucky Citizens for Sports Equity (KCSE), as the organization came to be known after an August, 1992 name change, helped to raise awareness for local Kentucky girls, coaches, officials, and administrators. The KCSE also attempted to organize and...