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Article: U. Oregon athletes' graduation rate not up to par
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- February 8, 2007
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Allie Grasgreen
University Wire
02-08-2007
(Oregon Daily Emerald) (U-WIRE) EUGENE, Ore. -- University of Oregon student-athletes have some catching up to do, but this time it's not on the field.
Student-athlete graduation rates have fallen to 15 percent lower than the national average of 62 percent. If 100 students entered the University as athletes in 2000, only 47 of them would graduated by 2006.
The latest data, released in November 2006, represents the 1999-2000 graduation rate. The graduation rate is "based on a comparison of the number of students who entered a college or university and the number of those who graduated within six years," according to the NCAA report.
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