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To: Grainne who wrote (101114)	4/13/2005 9:16:09 AM
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Jump in football helps graduation rates match all-time high October 25th, 2004 The NCAA's latest Division I graduation-rates research for the entering class of 1997 shows a three-percentage-point increase in the rate at which Division I-A football student-athletes earned their degrees. Football's graduation rate of 57 percent for the 1997 class is the highest in the sport since the NCAA began tracking graduation rates with the 1984 class. Also, the overall student-athlete rate of 62 percent matches the all-time high set by the 1996 class. The graduation rate for the general student body rose by a percentage point (from 59 percent to 60) and closed the gap between student-athlete rates and student rates from three percentage points to two. But the student-athlete graduation rate continues to be at least equal to or higher than the overall student population, a trend that has been steady since 1986. The increase in Division I-A football was buoyed by a six-percentage-point jump for white football student-athletes (from 61 percent to 67). Rates for black football student-athletes stayed steady at 49 percent, which is 6 percentage points higher than the rate at which the overall black student body graduated, and 13 percentage points higher than black male students. The 65 percent rate for white football student-athletes is two percentage points higher than the white student-body cohort and five percentage points above white male students. Rates in men's basketball remained steady at 44 percent. Rates for black men's basketball student-athletes rose by a percentage point, from 41 percent in 1996 to 42 percent for the 1997 cohort. Rates for white men's basketball student-athletes fell, however, from 52 percent to 48. Rates for white women's basketball student-athletes realized a similar slip, from 70 percent in 1996 to 67 percent for the 1997 cohort. Though rates for black women's basketball student-athletes increased by a percentage point (from 58 to 59 percent), rates for the overall women's basketball cohort in 1997 dropped from 66 percent to 64 percent, the first dip for women's basketball since 1992. As expected from the fact that the overall student-athlete graduation rate is above that of the general student body, various student-athlete cohorts also compared favorably with their student-body counterparts. The following chart illustrates that only white male student-athletes in the 1997 cohort graduated at rates below those of the comparable student group... www2.ncaa.org