While graduation rates for Division I men’s basketball players competing in the NCAA tournament have increased over all, the gap between those of white and black players has widened, according to a report released today. In the report, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, at the University of Central Florida, found that 84 percent of white basketball players graduate, compared with 56 percent of black players. The gap is four percentage points larger than it was last year.
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5 Responses to Racial Gap Widens In Basketball Tournament’s Graduation Rates
johnburningham - March 16, 2010 at 11:24 am
What I would like to know is a school’s overall black/white graduation compared to the players black/white graduation rate. Is the players graduation rate better or worst than the school’s overall numbers?
nextgeneration - March 16, 2010 at 11:51 am
Excellent question, johnburningham. These data needs a comparison point to the general student body. However, the comparison to last year is a bit damning.
tc2004 - March 16, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Does this take into account the amount of black players leaving to go pro? Or merely students just dropping out because college is not the right fit? Most students do not leave college because of the lure of multi-million dollar contracts, which a percentage of college basketball players do…
jon6707 - March 16, 2010 at 12:54 pm
“not the right fit?” How generous of you. In my observation, most of these “students” leave college because they never belonged there in the first place.
eacclibrary2 - March 16, 2010 at 1:38 pm
jon6707 – I will have to agree with you. I have been teaching for twenty-nine years and it seems that more and more students enter college who have not ideal of why they are there. They are lost and have no motivation to find themselves. Not everyone should go to college. A college education is something of valve that should be earned.