Education Dept. Will Publish List of Colleges With Title IX Exemptions

The U.S. Department of Education will publish a list of religious colleges that have received exemptions from some provisions of the gender-equity law Title IX, the assistant secretary for civil rights, Catherine E. Lhamon, said in a letter on Wednesday.

Dozens of religious colleges have been granted waivers that exempt them from having to enforce provisions of the law that run counter to their religious tenets. A report released in December by the Human Rights Campaign drew attention to the number of colleges — 56, it asserted — that had sought and received exemptions related to parts of the law dealing with gender identity and sexual orientation.

In her letter, to Sen. Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, Ms. Lhamon said the department would post on its website documents related to Title IX exemptions — including a list of colleges that have been granted them — “in the coming months.”