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RE: Former HBCU athletes sue NCAA over APR
The underlying issue is disparities in graduation rates among black and white athletes. At many non-HBCU schools with acceptable APR, the black athletes are graduating at the same rate as at some of these low performing HBCUs, but this is masked by the higher grad rates of white athletes.
(This post was last modified: 12-11-2020 10:52 PM by quo vadis.)
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RE: Former HBCU athletes sue NCAA over APR
(12-11-2020 10:51 PM)quo vadis Wrote: The underlying issue is disparities in graduation rates among black and white athletes. At many non-HBCU schools with acceptable APR, the black athletes are graduating at the same rate as at some of these low performing HBCUs, but this is masked by the higher grad rates of white athletes.
You work at an HBCU. Does this subject come up in the classroom or faculty meetings?
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RE: Former HBCU athletes sue NCAA over APR
(12-11-2020 11:44 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: (12-11-2020 10:51 PM)quo vadis Wrote: The underlying issue is disparities in graduation rates among black and white athletes. At many non-HBCU schools with acceptable APR, the black athletes are graduating at the same rate as at some of these low performing HBCUs, but this is masked by the higher grad rates of white athletes.
You work at an HBCU. Does this subject come up in the classroom or faculty meetings?
Absolutely. Southern has been hit hard with post-season bans due to poor APR - just six months ago our men's track and cross country teams were banned from post-season activity for poor APR.
But the discussions have focused on improving our internal processes, such as tracking academic progress of athletes for early intervention, not complaining about the APR standards.
My point was, though, that HBCUs are not the only schools that are failing to graduate a high percentage of African-American athletes. Many non-HBCUs, including P5, are too, it's just being masked to an extent by the higher rates of their white athletes.
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2020 08:41 AM by quo vadis.)
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RE: Former HBCU athletes sue NCAA over APR
(12-11-2020 11:44 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote: (12-11-2020 10:51 PM)quo vadis Wrote: The underlying issue is disparities in graduation rates among black and white athletes. At many non-HBCU schools with acceptable APR, the black athletes are graduating at the same rate as at some of these low performing HBCUs, but this is masked by the higher grad rates of white athletes.
You work at an HBCU. Does this subject come up in the classroom or faculty meetings?
As someone who works at a university... my impression is that things that are brought up in classrooms or faculty meetings mean very little to the administrators who run the campus.
Most administrators are failed academics who have low opinions of teachers and even lower opinions of researchers. They get a PhD, skate on the coattails of their PhD advisors to get tenure, and can't hack it on their own after that. They also come from the lowest paying departments. It would be a pay cut for an engineering or accounting professor to take an admin role lower than assistant dean, so most of the admin roles are usually from the art history or gender studies type of departments.
This is a generalization, of course. It's not true for all administrators. But I've definitely seen lots of examples of administrators like this.
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