Why does Title IX not apply to single-sex colleges?
<p>Does Title IX specifically exempt single-sex colleges like Wellesley? In 1990 the US Department of Justice sued the Virginia Military Institute for discrimination for not admitting women; does this provision only apply to public institutions, and not private ones?</p>

<p><a href="http://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/edlite-34cfr106.html#S15" rel="nofollow">34 CFR 106.15</a> covers admissions, and (e) says</p>

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  <p>Subpart C does not apply to any public institution of undergraduate
  higher education which traditionally and continually from its
  establishment has had a policy of admitting only students of one sex.</p>
</blockquote>

<p><a href="http://www2.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/edlite-34cfr106.html#C" rel="nofollow">Subpart C</a>, then, kind of redundantly prohibits "discrimination on the basis of sex in admission and recruitment", so that means there is no prohibition against single-sex public institutions of undergraduate education. The remainder of Title 9 applies, though. "Public" institution does not mean "government-run", it means "open to the public", which Wellesley is, although it is not government-run. I am not positive, but I think <a href="http://www.dliflc.edu/" rel="nofollow">DLI</a> is not a public school (even though it is operated by the US Army).</p>

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