[NU Sports] Must-read

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I agree that the additional help that minority athletes get seems to
have a positive effect.

The NCAA ads that are running now during the tourney promote that fact
without mentioning the racial gap in athletic graduation rates. 

Jeff


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From: hakirsch at aol.com [mailto:hakirsch at aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:54 PM
To: Dennis W. Brandt; Beamsley, Jeff; Jonathan Hodges
Cc: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com; Northwestern Wildcats
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Must-read

Not sure who is at fault. But if Jeff is correct that the graduation
rate for African American student athlete is that much higher than non
athletes it suggests to me that the universities on average are doing
everything they can to help the kid get through and remain eligible at
least until his final season's semester/quarter.  If so, then athletics
are a net positive for bridging the race education gap 

Harry

Harry
------Original Message------
From: Dennis W. Brandt
To: Beamsley, Jeff
To: Jonathan Hodges
To: Harry
Cc: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
Cc: Northwestern Wildcats
ReplyTo: Dennis W. Brandt
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Must-read
Sent: Mar 15, 2012 5:54 PM

<The REAL issue is that there is a 28% difference between white (88%)
and 
African American graduation rates (60%) at NCAA sanctioned schools, and
the 
graduation rate for African American male <students who aren't athletes
is 
22% lower than that.

<This isn't an indictment of universities or athletics in particular,
but 
rather a question of how we as a diverse society can expect to prosper
when 
we are failing to prepare our minority kids for the most <reliable path
to a 
good job - a college degree.

And this is entirely the fault of the American education system? 



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