NCAA Votes to Release Athlete Grad Ratings
The NCAA voted overwhelmingly today to make public each school’s graduation rate for athletes beginning next year.
With only a handful of dissenters, delegates also agreed that schools must give graduation rates to prospective athletes during recruiting.
The NCAA has been under pressure from Congress, which is considering legislation to force the release of the rates.
“We either take this action for ourselves or we’ll have it done for us,” said Texas Christian University Chancellor Bill Tucker. “If it’s done for us, it will be done to us.”
The action came as a racially heated struggle over college entrance exams and black athletes continued.
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