Recent and upcoming changes to National Collegiate Athletic Association rules -- including a new pilot program that will provide travel expenses to the families of basketball players who play in national championship games -- are rife with “serious Title IX complications,” a panel of gender equity experts said here Wednesday. “We’re seeing a sea change in college athletics and people are scrambling,” Erin Buzuvis, director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western New England University, said during presentation at the NCAA’s annual convention. "And the Title IX voice in all of this is not strong.” The NCAA announced last week that it will help cover the expenses of basketball players' family members who travel to the men's and women's Final Four games this spring. The NCAA also granted a waiver that allowed the College Football Playoff to help cover the expenses of families traveling to Monday's national championship football game.

January 15, 2015 ・ From Inside Higher Ed