Conservative websites this weekend announced what they said was a major victory in the battle against discrimination against men in higher education.
“Female Lawyer Gets Tulane University to Stop Discriminating Against Men” was the headline on PJ Media. The article says, “Tulane University has agreed to stop financially discriminating against male students in an unprecedented response to a Title IX complaint made against the school.” Mark J. Perry, a professor at the University of Michigan at Flint who has filed many complaints against colleges that maintain scholarships or programs for women, proclaimed victory on the website of the American Enterprise Institute. He sent an email to reporters about this win against “Tulane University’s ongoing, systematic and illegal gender discrimination.”
But Tulane officials and other experts on higher education law suggest that what the university has committed itself to is only to review various programs to make sure that they don’t discriminate against men, and to make changes if needed. And many legal experts say that there is no evidence — as the complaint against Tulane suggests — that having some programs for women is inherently illegal under federal antibias laws….