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The University of Georgia proclaims it is a powerhouse in academics and athletics.
The Georgia football team is certainly a perennial championship contender with back-to-back national titles in 2021 and 2022 and ranking as high as No. 3 after this season.
The program, though, is at the bottom of more than 130 FBS programs when it comes to the latest NCAA graduation rate metric.
Why is that?
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Only three years earlier, the school trumpeted that UGA athletics set a record with an 87 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) across all of its teams with 25 full-time staff members who worked in their Student Services department at the Rankin Smith Academic Center and more than 100 tutors and mentors.
In 2015, it sent out a press release that mentioned Georgia football’s 73 percent GSR rate were among its teams rated in the top seven in the SEC.
“At the University of Georgia, we are committed to supporting the success of our student-athletes on the field of play but also — and more importantly — in the classroom and in life after graduation,” UGA President Jere Morehead said then.
In the latest GSR rate released in December, Georgia football posted a 41 GSR rate, lagging far behind others in the conference. LSU was next closest in the SEC at 69.
“It hits hard and we know we need to do better,” David Shipley, Georgia’s faculty athletic representative since 2010, said last week in an interview. “In a way, I think we saw this coming with that particular cohort… you had a coaching change.”
The current data reflects six-year graduation rates for those entering the school from 2013-16 which were the final three seasons under coach…
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Author : Athens Banner-Herald
Publish date : 2024-01-16 09:01:29
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