HBCU Football Graduation Rates Student Athletes: Diverse continues its analysis of student-athlete graduation rates, this time focusing on Division I and II football programs at historically Black colleges and universities. We looked at 19 Division I teams and 18 Division II teams, but were unable to do a complete trend analysis from 2002 to 2006 because of insufficient data from one-fourth of the institutions. From 2002 to 2006, nearly 46 percent of all HBCUs increased their Black male graduation rates on average by 12 percent. The 24 percent of schools that saw a decline in graduation rates decreased on average by 9 percent.
