GRADUATION RATES PAINT STARK IMAGE OF STUDENT-ATHLETES NORTH SPORTS FINAL, C Edition
If graduating is the premise justifying so-called student-athletes at America's colleges, too many athletes are not students at our institutions of what is apparently higher perspiration, not higher learning. But the colleges can't hide now that the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
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Published in | Chicago tribune (1963) |
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Format | Newspaper Article |
Language | English |
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Chicago, Ill
Tribune Publishing Company, LLC
06.07.1995
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Summary: | If graduating is the premise justifying so-called student-athletes at America's colleges, too many athletes are not students at our institutions of what is apparently higher perspiration, not higher learning. But the colleges can't hide now that the National Collegiate Athletic Association has issued graduation rates at its 302 Division I schools for all the freshmen students and student-athletes (men and women) who entered college in the 1988-89 school year. Based on its graduation numbers, Penn State (77 percent student-athletes, 79 percent all students) deserved to be the top-ranked football team last season, not Nebraska (59 percent student-athletes, 48 percent all students). |
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ISSN: | 1085-6706 |