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...according to Boston University Professor ofLaw Jane M. Cohen, an expert in Title IX law, theBunting Institute may not be safe from the law'sfar-reaching effects...
While Title IX contains an exemption fortraditionally all-women undergraduatecolleges--the law was never intended to challengeWellesley College or, for that matter,Radcliffe--courts have held that it is illegal forgraduate programs to discriminate on the basis ofgender...
Cohen explains that courts have ruled that ifeven one program at a given school receivesfederal money, all of that school's programs mustcomply with Title IX. That means that whenall-women undergraduate colleges also runsingle-sex graduate or post-graduate programs,they may then violate Title IX...
...Cohen, who herself read grant applicationsfor the Bunting Institute during the early 1990s,says much of Title IX law is open tointerpretation. With institutions like theBunting, technicalities can blur the meaning oflegal precedent...
Though Radcliffe has since changed its tune,Radcliffe College President Linda S. Wilson saidin December that the Bunting was not aneducational program, suggesting that Title IX didnot apply...