Sports’ Academic Progress Rate unblemished

Thursday, April 16, 2009

For the first time in Kansas history, every sports team was above the NCAA’s requisite 925 Academic Progress Rate score. Kansas released the numbers to local media Wednesday morning.

The APR measures the standards for academic performance of athletics teams based on the eligibility of athletes, retention of athletes and the graduation rates of each student athlete on scholarship. The NCAA began releasing APRs five years ago.

Graphic by Mark Stevens

Here are the multi-year Academic Progress Rates (APR) for each of Kansas’ athletic teams. The arrows indicate whether or not the multi-year rates improved from last year’s rates.

Associate Athletics Director Paul Buskirk said 925 was the “magic number” for teams to achieve so they would not be subject to penalties or NCAA supervision.

An APR of 925 projects to an NCAA Graduation Success Rate of 60 percent.

Three years ago, football, baseball and women’s basketball all earned sub-925 APRs. As a result, football lost two scholarships and baseball lost partial scholarships.

The APR allows for exceptions if student athletes leave for a legitimate reason such as a transition to professional sports and medical or financial hardships, but only if they would have been academically eligible had they returned for another year.

Kansas released its data before the NCAA released the data for all Division I teams. The NCAA should release its data in the next few weeks.

“It’s better to be in control of your own release date,” Jim Marchiony, associate athletics director, said. “It’s our effort to educate the general public and media ahead of time.”

— — Edited by Andrew Wiebe

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Sports’ Academic Progress Rate unblemished

There was a football player in my women's studies class last semester who didn't even know what class he had enrolled in. Clearly he did not enroll himself, nor did he take the class very seriously. Perhaps athletes should not receive special treatment, but should take more responsibilty for their academics, rather than rely on tutors, or whatever extra help they may receive to make it through college. Just a thought.

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