NCAA Graduation Rates

In the Article “NCAA Athlete Graduation Rates: Less than Meets the Eye” by E. Woodrow Eckard the author explains that the NCAA is telling the public that the student athletes have higher graduation rates than regular students. In this article it will discuss the NCAA’s misleading claims, the real evidence and claims and how the audience feels about the author’s statements. The Article itself explains that according to the NCAA, student athletes are “completing their bachelor’s degrees at rates higher than the American College student population at large.”(Eckard 209) The author then talks about how the NCAA does not take into account, the large portion of college students who are part time. These statistics in according to the NCAA are looking at students who start in the fall of a given year, then graduate four years later; they do not take into account the part time students who start naturally will not be done in 4 years. Part time students will likely finish at …show more content…
Rather the article gives precise numbers and formulas on how they calculated their work so we as an audience do not believe that E. Woodrow Eckard is giving us false information. Mr. Eckard is very thorough with is information and he gives people the idea that his evidence is more accurate than the biased NCAA evidence and statistics. In my opinion the author makes a good effort to challenge the NCAA and the audience with the evidence and information he brought to the table. The overall article in my opinion was very hard to read, because the author put very detailed formulas and ways he came up with those formulas that was really boring. Half of the article was the author explaining how he got these formulas and what he was going to apply it to and how. Over all the article is very informative and it does show that the NCAA will try to give misleading statistics so their record will look better.