udent athletes who do meet the requirements and attend college versus the normal student body. Even before the induction of Prop 48, student athletes maintained a higher graduation rate than the regular student body. This statistic still holds today. The most recent study shows the entering college class of 1992 where 58% of the approximately 67,000 graduated in six years versus their general counterparts’ graduation rate of 56%. Although the rate of graduation for male and female basketball players had slipped in the past several years, a minimal amount it can be attributed to the high success rate of the African American Athlete in professional sports such as the NBA or NFL. Though this may sound negative, the black female athlete is still graduating at a rate 12 percent higher than that of the her general counterparts and the black male at a rate 10 percent higher than his. Although the proportion of black student athletes dropped after Proposition 48, the actual number of graduating black student athletes increased. This supports the fact that those students entering college since its induction, have had a much higher success rate than those before. ...
