{"id":234638,"date":"2026-03-24T20:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234638\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:41:30","slug":"federal-warning-issued-to-san-jose-state-for-failing-to-meet-title-ix-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234638\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Warning Issued to San Jos\u00e9 State for Failing to Meet Title IX Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>The U.S. Department of Education (the Department)\u2019s\u00a0Office for Civil Rights (OCR)\u00a0issued\u00a0a Letter of Impending Enforcement\u00a0Action\u00a0to San Jose State University (SJSU) for its ongoing refusal to comply with\u00a0Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Image: Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n

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U.S. Department of Education<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Education (the Department)\u2019s\u00a0Office for Civil Rights (OCR)\u00a0issued\u00a0a Letter of Impending Enforcement\u00a0Action\u00a0to San Jose State University (SJSU) for its ongoing refusal to comply with\u00a0Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In\u00a0January<\/a>, the Department found that SJSU\u2019s policies allowing males to compete in women\u2019s sports and access female-only facilities deny women equal educational opportunities and benefits.\u00a0OCR\u00a0submitted to SJSU\u00a0a proposed Resolution Agreement\u00a0with terms\u00a0that would have\u00a0resolved\u00a0its Title IX violations.\u00a0SJSU refused to sign it or\u00a0attempt to negotiate its\u00a0terms, and\u00a0has taken no\u00a0other\u00a0action to\u00a0ensure the\u00a0safety\u00a0of\u00a0its\u00a0female students\u00a0and deliver equal educational opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have provided SJSU with multiple opportunities to resolve its Title IX violations with common sense actions: separating male and female athletes based on their biological sex, keeping men out of women\u2019s locker rooms and bathrooms, restoring rightfully-earned titles and accolades to female athletes, and apologizing to the women forced to forfeit competitions to protect themselves. Yet, SJSU remains obstinate, choosing a radical ideology over safety, dignity, and fairness for its own students,\u201d\u00a0said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey.\u00a0\u201cWith today\u2019s action, the Department is putting the university on notice: comply with the law or\u00a0risk losing\u00a0its\u00a0federal funding.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

SJSU has\u00a010\u00a0calendar days to come into compliance or face enforcement action, including referral to the U.S. Department of Justice\u00a0(DOJ)\u00a0and\u00a0risk of\u00a0termination of SJSU\u2019s federal funding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Background\u00a0<\/p>\n

OCR found that beginning in 2022, SJSU actively recruited and allowed a male to compete on the women\u2019s indoor and beach volleyball teams and reportedly instructed members of the coaching staff not to tell the female players that the athlete was a male. As a result, female athletes on the team shared women\u2019s locker rooms and hotel rooms with the male student while being unaware that he is a member of the opposite sex.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In addition to privacy concerns, the presence of this male athlete presented a safety concern for female athletes and provided SJSU\u2019s volleyball team with an unfair physical advantage over opposing teams. On multiple occasions, the male athlete\u00a0spiked the ball so forcefully<\/a>\u00a0that it knocked females on the opposing team to the ground. During one season, seven all-women\u2019s teams from other universities forfeited their competitions, accepting a loss rather than competing against a male.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

OCR concluded that SJSU also violated Title IX by failing to promptly and equitably investigate Title IX complaints filed by SJSU female athletes about the presence of the male on their team and by taking action that discouraged women from participating in the Title IX process. In addition, days after a SJSU female volleyball player joined a Title IX lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), she discovered that the male student had conspired to have a member of the opposing team spike her in the face during an upcoming match. SJSU did not investigate the conspiracy, but later subjected this female athlete to a Title IX complaint for reportedly \u201cmisgendering\u201d the male athlete when discussing this incident in online videos and interviews.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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