African American Colleges?

LakeWashington
Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:40:09 +0000

And the 6-year graduation rate (the NCAA standard measure) is just as bad for African-American athletes. A bit of perspective; Congress passed a college athletics accountability act a few years ago, sponsored by former Senator Bill Bradley (former Princeton and NBA star) and Representative Ed Towns also a former HBCU ball player. That law requires colleges that receive federal funds to report the graduation rates for student-athletes. Sadly, for Black students the rate of graduation is low. Schools like the three I mentioned earlier (and many others) just didn’t give a hoot until the implementation of this law.

To be fair, HBCUs weren’t so squeaky clean in this regard either, but their record was not so offending as “mainstream” schools. Plus, at places like Grambling University the football program had pretty good results academically. I forgot the name of the Grambling [and Green Bay Packers] alum who was a protege of former Secretary of State and Bechtel Corp chief George Schultz. He is a prosperous businessman and sits on a few corporate boards. A great success story from an HBCU, wouldn’t you say?