TexasTerror
April 7th, 2006, 08:47 AM
Interesting fact page here for all the Texas Div Is as it relates to the graduation rate for the black student-athletes at Div I schools in Texas compared to all black students graduation rate. A chart is provided on the page comparing the Texas and A&Ms to the SHSUs, PVA&Ms and TxSo's.
Black athletes' academic success hailed
Graduation rates increase to 52 percent in most recent study
08:27 PM CDT on Thursday, April 6, 2006
By JEFF MILLER / The Dallas Morning News
Richard Lapchick has been tracking the academic performance of major college athletes for almost a generation. He calls the revelation that black athletes in NCAA Division I are now graduating at a rate 17 percentage points higher than their counterparts 14 years earlier the best news that he has seen on the subject.
Lapchick is the director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, which released those findings on Thursday. The report stated 52 percent of the black athletes who entered Division I schools from 1995 through 1998 graduated within six years, according to federal graduation rates. That compared with 35 percent in the first group included in the federal study, those who entered school from 1981 to 1984.
Lapchick said he believes the scrutiny that athletic departments have been under by media outlets and groups such as his has helped create better environments for black athletes to succeed academically.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/040706dnspogradrates.dc0e1cc.html
School Black athlete FGR '98-99 vs. previous year vs. campus black FGR '98-99 Black athlete GSR '98-99
Lamar 44 +7 +21 50
Prairie View A&M 72 +10 +35 64
Sam Houston State 52 +6 +16 56
Stephen F. Austin 46 +2 +13 51
UT-Arlington 54 same +23 49
UT-San Antonio 40 +3 +13 54
Texas Southern 33 -20 +19 34
Texas St-San Marcos 51 +16 -1 61
Black athletes' academic success hailed
Graduation rates increase to 52 percent in most recent study
08:27 PM CDT on Thursday, April 6, 2006
By JEFF MILLER / The Dallas Morning News
Richard Lapchick has been tracking the academic performance of major college athletes for almost a generation. He calls the revelation that black athletes in NCAA Division I are now graduating at a rate 17 percentage points higher than their counterparts 14 years earlier the best news that he has seen on the subject.
Lapchick is the director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, which released those findings on Thursday. The report stated 52 percent of the black athletes who entered Division I schools from 1995 through 1998 graduated within six years, according to federal graduation rates. That compared with 35 percent in the first group included in the federal study, those who entered school from 1981 to 1984.
Lapchick said he believes the scrutiny that athletic departments have been under by media outlets and groups such as his has helped create better environments for black athletes to succeed academically.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/040706dnspogradrates.dc0e1cc.html
School Black athlete FGR '98-99 vs. previous year vs. campus black FGR '98-99 Black athlete GSR '98-99
Lamar 44 +7 +21 50
Prairie View A&M 72 +10 +35 64
Sam Houston State 52 +6 +16 56
Stephen F. Austin 46 +2 +13 51
UT-Arlington 54 same +23 49
UT-San Antonio 40 +3 +13 54
Texas Southern 33 -20 +19 34
Texas St-San Marcos 51 +16 -1 61