May 13, 2005

Measuring Athletes' Academic Progress

By JOHN P. EVANS

Murray Sperber's piece titled "When 'Academic Progress' Isn't" (The Chronicle Review, April 15) seems to invite the reader to conclusions of the following sort: Graduation rates of student-athletes are unacceptably low; that is largely attributable to widespread use of transfer student-athletes; if steps now in process within the National Collegiate Athletic Association result in improved graduation rates, the results will be tainted because they will have been achieved through easy courses

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