NCAA uses graduation rates to strip scholarships

[chitownBUB]

What Valley school will be the first to get stripped of scholarships?

http://cbs.sportsline.com/general/story/9582821/rss

Here is the latest NCAA data for the past two years

Men-Student Athletes Graduation Rates (this year's data, last year's data)
Bradley 77%, 74%
Drake 64%, 69%
UNI 62% 55%
Evansville 61%, 52%
Creighton 70%, 51%
SIU 61%, 51%
Indiana State 57%, 49%
ISU 61%, 48%
Missouri State 57%, 46%
Wichita State 51%, 38%

I will take a wild guess and say it won't be Bradley, but it might be one of the bottom five schools.

[Da Coach]

It is amazing how the private schools stand out against the public schools over the past 2 years. In combined graduation rates, the bottom 5 schools are all esteemed public institutions of learning. Only UNI, among public schools, is in the top 5. And only Drake and Bradley are significantly above that dreaded 50% level the past year.

Is maybe football part of the reason?

[Mr. Jazz]

Where is this data published?

[MacabreMob]

I wonder if this kind of stuff gets written in other local newspapers suggesting the bad outweighs the good...

[flipper]

man i read the headline too fast. i thought they were going to give schloarships to dancers who use poles.

[chitownBUB]

Glad you asked Jazz.

First, you could have done a search right on BradleyFans for "graduation rates" and you would have found this thread telling of the most recent data.

http://www.bradleyfans.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2016

This thread also lists numerous links to the NCAA to find all the data you want.

But to find past years' data, just look in each of the past several Bradley Media Guides.
Near the end of each guide is a section on academics, and ehere is the link to the online version of the 2005-2006 pages, and each preceding media guide has the same stuff from years before:

http://www.bubraves.com/pdf4/21018.pdf?ATCLID=201568&SPSID=19336&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400