Among the women, both Connecticut and Stanford University graduate 100 percent of their basketball players, the University of Louisville 80 percent and the University of Oklahoma 69 percent.
Lapchick unabashedly says he loves coming to work every day at the Institute, which is the NCAA’s official diversity management training program and also provides diversity management training for professional sports leagues and teams. He hopes that the reports aren’t merely read but that they cause a reaction and that people ask, “What can we do to change things?”
“We use the publication of the data to get ideas out there how things can become different,” Lapchick says. “Part in hiring practices, part in graduation rates and the academic success of the student-athletes.”
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