Thursday, April 06, 2006

More Black Athletes Earning Diplomas At NCAA Division I Schools

A study out today says the number of black athletes getting diplomas across all NCAA Division I sports jumped 24 percentage points from 1984 to 2004. That marks big gains for a demographic that once recorded just 35 percent graduation success.

Black athletes were at least 15 percent more likely to graduate if they entered college in 1998 instead of 1984, according to the report by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.

Female black athletes remain more successful than their male counterparts, graduating 73 percent of the time compared with 54 percent for men. The same is true of whites, with 73 percent of women graduating and 66 percent of men.

Graduation success for all whites still outpaced black athletes 66 percent to 52 percent, according to federal graduation rates cited in the study.

- Study: Black Athlete Graduation Rises (Forbes)
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