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alp227

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7. your question is misleading

Reply to PlanetaryOrbit (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 10:07 PM

Apr 2014

since the only women's colleges in existence now are private colleges, those colleges do not receive federal financial assistance directly, so title IX doesn't apply. Federal financial aid goes to students to pay for tuition, not directly to schools, hence the reason why there's this student loan crisis.

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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