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ERIC Number: EJ593357
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-5982
Graduation Rates Hit Lowest Level in 7 Years for Athletes in Football and Basketball.
Suggs, Welch
Chronicle of Higher Education, v46 n3 pA58-A59 Sep 10 1999
Graduation rates of football players and men's and women's basketball players at National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I colleges have reached their lowest level in seven years, with fewer black athletes graduating than at any time since the mid-1980s. Eight universities graduated at least 90% of athletes enrolling between 1989 and 1992. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Athletes, Basketball, Black Students, College Athletics, College Graduates, Educational Attainment, Educational Trends, Females, Football, Higher Education, Males, Racial Distribution, Tables (Data), White Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Graduation Rates; National Collegiate Athletic Association