Facing Title IX Lawsuit, East Carolina University Agrees to Reinstate Sports Programs, Develop Gender Equity Plan

East Carolina University (ECU) has agreed to reinstate its women’s swimming, diving, and tennis teams, develop a gender equity plan, which would bring it into full compliance with Title IX and avoid a threatened class action sex discrimination lawsuit. On May 21, 2020, ECU announced that it was eliminating its women’s (and men’s) varsity swimming & diving and tennis teams. On November 16, 2020, attorneys representing members of the affected women’s team wrote to ECU’s Interim