{"id":22990,"date":"2010-11-19T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mark_yost-how_catholic_schools_do_a_better_job_graduating_student-athletes\/"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T22:12:14","slug":"mark_yost-how_catholic_schools_do_a_better_job_graduating_student-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22990","title":{"rendered":"Mark Yost–How Catholic schools do a better job graduating student-athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"

(We first posted on Sister Rose Ann Fleming<\/a> back in March–KSH).<\/i><\/p>\n

I’ve written much on these pages about the often problematic nexus of collegiate academics and athletics. Over the years, I’ve pilloried Kentucky and Memphis and their 30% graduation rates. By contrast, I’ve held up Catholic colleges like Notre Dame\u201d\u201done of the few schools where athletes have a higher graduation rate than the general student body\u201d\u201das examples of schools that refuse to accept academically unqualified students simply because they have good jump shots.<\/p>\n

My faith was shaken earlier this year when the New York Times interviewed Sister Rose Ann Fleming. She’s the feisty 5- foot-4-inch, 78-year-old nun who makes sure that the basketball players at Xavier University, a Jesuit Catholic college in Cincinnati, spend as much time in class as they do in the gym. Terrell Holloway, a sophomore guard at Xavier, praised Sister Rose in the Times article for keeping on him when he fell behind in a reading class during summer school.<\/p>\n

Reading? Summer school?<\/p>\n

It forced me to ask myself: Are the Catholic schools, after all, the same as Michigan or Temple when it comes to what kind of athletes they admit? The short answer seems to be yes. The critical difference is that schools like Xavier are making sure that their players receive diplomas.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(We first posted on Sister Rose Ann Fleming back in March–KSH). I’ve written much on these pages about the often problematic nexus of collegiate academics and athletics. Over the years, I’ve pilloried Kentucky and Memphis and their 30% graduation rates.…<\/span><\/p>\n

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