{"id":45692,"date":"2016-11-16T09:21:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=45692"},"modified":"2016-11-16T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:41:47","slug":"nau-student-athletes-continue-graduate-high-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-student-athletes-continue-graduate-high-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU student-athletes continue to graduate at a high rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Northern Arizona University\u2019s NCAA Graduation Success Rate of 84 percent leads the Big Sky Conference, according to a national report released Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">NAU\u2019s rate is the second-highest in the state of Arizona among\u00a0the Regent\u00a0institutions. The NCAA\u00a0<span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/about\/resources\/media-center\/news\/african-american-men-s-basketball-players-succeeding-classroom-highest-rates-ever\">developed the GSR<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<\/span>Division I institutions in 2002 in response to college and university presidents who wanted more accurate graduation data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI am very proud of our student-athlete\u2019s accomplishments and their dedication to academic excellence,\u201d said NAU President <strong>Rita Cheng<\/strong>. \u201cCongratulations to our coaches, Dr. Campos and her staff, and of course our athletes, for achieving an 84 percent graduation success rate for the second year in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The results of the GSR\u00a0are a product of our student-athletes, coaches and administration\u00a0working together to promote a positive learning environment, while providing educational resources and tools to help the student-athletes excel in the classroom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Three teams posted a 100 percent graduation success rate for NAU. Women\u2019s golf and women\u2019s tennis received perfect marks for the third consecutive year, while women\u2019s soccer recorded a perfect score for the second year in a row. The men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams both earned a 90 percent or better GSR. The men\u2019s basketball program and men\u2019s tennis team both climbed 18 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The latest Academic Progress Rate that was released in April showed that all 15 NAU sponsored sports continue to exceed NCAA academic standards for the seventh-straight year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">NAU finished the 2015-16 academic year with a 3.12 overall cumulative grade point average. Fifty-eight student-athletes graduated last school year, while 197 Dean\u2019s List honors were bestowed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-student-athletes-continue-graduate-high-rate\/\">Northern Arizona University\u2019s NCAA Graduation Success Rate of 84 percent leads the Big Sky Conference, according to a national report released Tuesday. NAU\u2019s rate is the second-highest in the state of Arizona among\u00a0the Regent\u00a0institutions. The NCAA\u00a0developed the GSR\u00a0for\u00a0Division I institutions in 2002 in response to college and university presidents who wanted more accurate graduation data.\u00a0&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":45705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}