Our Fall 2002 issue of On Campus with Women reflected on "Title IX at 30" and the dramatic gains that women and girls in all areas of education have attained. This issue of On Campus with Women focuses on the disturbing current efforts to undermine Title IX's power.

The Director's Outlook, by Caryn McTighe Musil, examines the two-pronged assault on Title IX and race-conscious affirmative action. Musil asserts that it is part of a larger threat to progress we have made in the United States toward becoming a multiracial, gender inclusive democracy.

Our feature article assesses the creation, process, and results of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, appointed in June of 2002 by Secretary of Education Roderick Paige. On February 26, 2003, the Commission issued a report, "Open to All: Title IX at 30," to the Department of Education. The report contains a set of recommendations to the Department of Education on how Title IX might be amended. Although the Commission was setup to examine fairness in athletics, from the outset it seemed skewed to undermine Title IX.

The feature story provides Talking Points on Title IX and a special Data Page on misinformation surrounding Title IX. This issue's Data Connection highlights information from The American Woman 2003-2004: Daughters of a Revolution, Young Women Today, prepared by the Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI) and published by Palgrave.

National Initiative for Women in Higher Education

"The world we live in requires us to have a deeper and more complex understanding of differences, and it is through the expression of our multiple voices that the complexities of the human experience can begin to be addressed. We have to have the courage to change our thinking as we listen to new voices in the academy that are seeking our guidance and wisdom." These words by Rusty Barceló, executive committee member of the National Initiative, are excerpted from the speech The Courage to Lead, that she delivered at the Association of American Colleges & Universities annual meeting in January 2003. Barceló argues that higher education can be transformed if women come together across their differences to work collectively towards common goals.