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PlanetaryOrbit

(155 posts) Fri Apr 25, 2014, 06:54 PM Apr 2014

How do women's-only colleges qualify for federal funding? [View all]

Sorry if the answer is really obvious and I missed it, but I have a layman question about higher education:

How do women's-only colleges qualify for federal financial aid if such funding prohibits gender-based admissions? Is there an exception in the rules?

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How do women's-only colleges qualify for federal funding? [View all] PlanetaryOrbit Apr 2014 OP

Try here: cthulu2016 Apr 2014 #1

What funding? MineralMan Apr 2014 #2

Right, and the women's college has largely gone the way of the buggy whip Warpy Apr 2014 #3

The Seven Sisters only lost Radcliffe and Vassar. pnwmom Apr 2014 #5

Bennett College. mwooldri Apr 2014 #6

Grants and loans fund students, not schools. MineralMan Apr 2014 #10

+1 :) nt mwooldri Apr 2014 #13

oh Yay... Some new MRA bullshit... Ohio Joe Apr 2014 #4

your question is misleading alp227 Apr 2014 #7

I'm not really sure. NaturalHigh Apr 2014 #8

because it's a public school that can get federal grants, alp227 Apr 2014 #9

Title IX exempts colleges that accept students of only one sex. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #11

Interesting. So private liberal arts colleges are exempt? PlanetaryOrbit May 2014 #14

Colleges that were single-sex at the passage of Title IX are exempt. lumberjack_jeff May 2014 #15

I don't hate women.. Iggo Apr 2014 #12