In 1870, Wellesley College opened its doors with a singular mission: to educate women who would go on to make a difference in the world.
For 150 years, that mission held. Wellesley became one of the "Seven Sisters" – a group of elite colleges built to give women the education men had long denied them.
Then, in 2015, Wellesley quietly changed the rules...
The college now admits anyone who "identifies and lives as a woman," including males.
This means that university policy is for men who identify as women to share intimate spaces like restrooms and locker rooms as well as dorm rooms with female students, without their consent or knowledge.
I'm Nicole Neily, founder and president of Defending Education. We investigate what's actually happening inside schools and universities, and when the facts warrant it, we take legal action.
On June 25th, we filed a federal civil rights complaint against Wellesley College, alleging clear violations of Title IX. The law is not ambiguous on the point that schools that receive federal funds and claim single-sex status have to actually operate as single-sex institutions.
Wellesley does not, and it still accepts roughly $12 million a year in federal support while it looks the other way.
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Wellesley’s decision underscores the ultimate irony of the modern gender movement: universities originally formed to empower women have made the conscious decision to prioritize men.
This is not the first time we've caught a "Seven Sister" school abandoning the women it was built to serve.
Last year, we filed a nearly identical complaint against Smith College. The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights opened an investigation into Smith earlier this year.
Defending Education is one of the few organizations that reads the fine print of these admissions policies, documents violations, and presents them to federal regulators.
That is how a policy change becomes an investigation.
Your support funds the next complaint, the next investigation, and the next school we hold to the law.
If you'd like to help us keep filing these complaints, please donate today.
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