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Article: Graduation rates hold steady for scholarship athletes. (NCAA reports that graduation rate for black scholarship athletes remained at 46% for 1997)(Brief Article)
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- July 21, 1997
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Scholarship athletes have maintained graduation rates for the fifth consecutive year and have done better than nonathletes in the classroom since the NCAA raised its standards in 1986 through Proposition 48.
The proposition's act of raising academic standards for entering freshman athletes to Division I schools was challenged as being racially biased and is the subject of a legal challenge.
However, according to its annual report on graduation rates in Division I colleges, the NCAA reported that the rate for Black athletes held steady at 46 percent this year.
Black athletes also had better numbers than their peers in the general student ...