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Grad Rates for Black College Athletes Increase

by Associated Press , April 7, 2009

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A gap remains in graduation rates between White and Black athletes, but the study found it is shrinking. The federal rate for White athletes entering school in 1984 was 59 percent, 24 percentage points higher than for Black athletes. The gap had decreased to 15 percentage points for students entering in 2001, when the federal rate for White athletes was 68 percent.

The report also found that African-American athletes are graduating at higher rates than Black college students as a whole. The most recent federal rate for all Black students was 45 percent, compared with 53 percent for athletes.

 



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