- Between 2007 and 2010, Black men were 3 percent of full-time, degree-seeking undergraduate students, but 57 percent of football teams and 64 percent of basketball teams.
- Across four cohorts, 50 percent of Black male student-athletes graduated within six years, compared to 67 percent of student-athletes overall, 73 percent of undergraduate students overall, and 56 percent of Black undergraduate men overall.
- 96 percent of these NCAA Division I colleges and universities graduated Black male student-athletes at rates lower than student-athletes overall.
- 97 percent of institutions graduated Black male student-athletes at rates lower than undergraduate students overall. On no campus were rates exactly comparable for these two comparison groups.
- At one university, Black male student-athletes graduated at a comparable rate to Black undergraduate men overall. On 72 percent of the other campuses, graduation rates for Black male student-athletes were lower than rates for Black undergraduate men overall.
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- Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education