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Student-athletes: men
do worse than women
OVERLAND PARK. Kan (AP) — Female athletes who started col
lege in 1985 her anus Letter students than their male counterparts,
according to an NCAA study released Wednesday.
Relatively poor classroom perfonnanie by males even caused the
overall graduation rate among all 1985 student-athletes to fall below
that of the student IhmIv in general
Hut a general trend of improving graduation rates of male and
females was shown over the previous survey, which accounted for
athletes who enrolled in t984
Vf he Information wm i ontained in the NCAA’s second annual report
on graduation rates of Division I schools. The first report concerned
students who enrolled in 1984
The report will appear annually, giving the graduation rates of Divi
sion I schools of the freshman class that started college several years
earlier The survey assumes si x years for students to earn their degrees.
The information was broken down by race, gender and NCAA sub
division
Fifty-four percent of all students enrolling in 1985 got their degrees,
compared with 52 percent of all athletes. Female students' gradua
tion rate was 55 percent, compared with (it percent for all female ath
letes
Male students entering in 1985 graduated at a 52 percent rate, while
48 percent of male student-athletes got their degrees
Block athletes' 36 percent graduation rate was slightly better than
the 33 perc ent of all black students. Broken down by gender, black
females showed a 44 percent graduation rate and black males 34 per
cent The percentages of all hint k students getting their degrees was
36 for females and 30 for males
The survey said 56 j»-n ent of white students entering in 1985 grad
uated. compared with 59 percent of white student-athletes.
White females graduated at a 65 percent rate, while all white female
students' rate of graduation uas 58 pert ent White male students and
white male athletes I mill graduated at a 55 percent rate.
In Division l-A. the major football schools, athletes' graduation rate
of 53 peri ent was lower than the 57 percent of all students.
Among Division I football and male basketball plovers, academe
honors go to footballers The survey said 48 percent of major col
lege football plavers got their degrees alter enrolling in 1985. com
pared w ith 43 percent of male basketball plovers
But ail were eclipsed by the 57 percent graduation rate of Divi
sion I women's basketball players
The survey showed a marked difference among bias k and white
football and men's basket trail players. White males showed gradua
tion rates of 62 percent in flasket I mi 11 and 58 pert ent in football, com
pared with the 3.3 percent for black male bosketballers and 34 percent
in football
The rates for male basketball players was up from the 53 percent
reflected last year for the 1984 class. The rate of male athletes rose
slightly from 47 |M>n.unt to 48 percent over the 1984 freshman class.
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