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NCAA Graduation Rates
Kelsey Harris
Why Graduation Rates?
Internship in Academic Support for Athletics
True understanding?
Controversy over schools with low scores Ex: National Champion UCONN
Why?
Federal Graduation Rate
Graduation Success Rate
Academic Progress Rate
Rates Defined
Rates Chart
Methods
Coaches Interview
How do you use Graduation Rates in your recruiting process? Or do you? Do you have a goal graduation rate (APR) for your program? How often do recruits ask you about graduation rates? Is it mostly parents? Do you feel like they understand what they’re asking (or do they just ask because they think they are supposed to)? Has a recruit ever asked about APR? Has the fact that individual head coach’s APR’s are published (through NCAA.org) changed anything you do?
Methods
Administrator’s Interview
Do we have a goal graduation rate for each team? What steps are taken every year within the athletic department to focus on the APR among teams? Do you believe that graduate rates and APR are important to Elon coaches?
Content analysis from NCAA.org and GSR information
Survey sent to current student-athletes Sample questions:
Are you aware of Elon’s current graduation rate? When you hear the term “graduation rate”, what does it
mean to you? Was Elon’s graduation rate a factor in you choosing
Elon as a school? Do you think collegiate athlete’s graduation rates are
higher/lower/same as the general collegiate population?
Methods
Results2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
75
77
79
81
83
85
87
89
91
93
Elon Overall GSRSOCON Avg
Overall Athletic GSR: Elon vs. SOCON Average
Results 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
80
82
84
86
88
90
92
Elon Overall GSRCAA Avg
Overall Athletic GSR: Elon vs. CAA Average
Implications
Elon’s academic culture speaks for itself Consistently higher than conference
averages
3.0 GPA goal for each team = high rates
Student-athlete misunderstanding of rates Or just don’t worry about it
Public APR rates have not changed internal process with coaches
Unhappiness with huge accountability
Differences between sport teams? Differences between race? Background?
Hometown?
Future Research