Re: grad stats

[Darryl Gilliam]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!  I just forwarded the email to everyone that I know.  Coach Huggins and the staff needs to be commended for the tremendous amount of improvement.  
We should get a list of all the writers who wrote negative articles about the low graduation rate and send out a mass email.  This is great news for the program.
 John Hall wrote:

Good news from ucbearcats.com. Do you think the 100% stat will get as
much publicity as 0% did a few years ago?


- John in Mn



CINCINNATI, Ohio -- The University of Cincinnati is represented very
favorably in the latest NCAA Graduation Rates Report.

The 2002 NCAA report, which evaluates the class which entered as freshmen
in the 1995-96 academic year, reveals that 61 percent of UC's
student-athletes from that class graduated within the six-year window.
That is the university's highest mark since the NCAA began the reporting
process.

UC's 61 percent graduation rate for student-athletes is higher than that
of the national average (60 percent) and higher than the rate for all UC
students (57 percent).

Moreover, the graduation rate for Cincinnati's men's basketball team for
that year is 100 percent.

The football team had a graduation rate of 73 percent with 78 percent of
its African-American players earning their degrees.

"I think we are beginning to see the results of our efforts in this area,"
stated UC director of athletics Bob Goin. "These rates should continue to
improve, based upon the recognition our more recent teams have received,
when those classes become factored in. I congratulate our coaches and our
academic support staff for their diligence."

UC's 61 percent graduation rate follows the 59 percent rate of the 2001
NCAA report, which dealt with the 1994-95 entering class.

During the 2001-02 academic year, Cincinnati's men's basketball team won
the Conference USA Sport Academic Award as having the highest team grade
point average among the league's teams. Four members of last year's team,
Rodney Crawford, Jimmy Hubbard, Donald Little and Leonard Stokes,
completed their undergraduate degrees over the summer.






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