This June marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark law banning ... In 1979, HEW released what is commonly known as the three-prong test that lets athletic departments show compliance ...

The commonly used three-prong test to determine Title IX compliance emerged in 1979. An educational institution receiving federal funding must meet at least one of the three elements of the test.

It raises fundamental questions about what Title IX compliance looks like half ... effectively laid out how UK failed each prong of the three-part test — by a concerningly wide margin ...