Converse and Southern Wesleyan Earn Prestigious Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence from NCAA
INDIANAPOLIS – Converse and Southern Wesleyan were both recipients of the prestigious Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence.
The award is presented to NCAA Division II member schools earning an Academic Success Rate of 90 percent or higher. Please visit
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“The Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence recognizes Division II member schools for their commitment to a balanced college experience that supports the academic success of college athletes,” said Sandra Jordan, Chancellor of the University of South Carolina Aiken and chair of the Division II Presidents Council. “Ten more institutions earned this award than last year, setting an all-time high for this program, but most importantly, this means college athletes at these schools are achieving academic success that will benefit them for the rest of their lives.”
In total, Conference Carolinas owns an impressive rate of 75 percent in the latest Academic Success Rates released by NCAA Division II.
Conference Carolinas had 2,514 of 3,367 (75 percent) graduate in the latest Academic Success Rates released by NCAA Division II (2010-2013 freshman cohorts).
The Academic Success Rate is the percentage of student-athletes who graduate within six years of initial collegiate enrollment and includes virtually all Division II student-athletes.
Unlike the federal rate, the Division II ASR includes nearly 34,000 nonscholarship student-athletes and accounts for those who transfer to a Division II school after initial enrollment elsewhere, while removing student-athletes who leave school while academically eligible. The national ASR for the four cohorts of student-athletes who entered college from 2010 to 2013 is 74 percent.
Division II student-athletes continue to graduate at a higher rate than the general student body. Even when using the less-inclusive federal graduation rate, the 2013 entering class of student-athletes graduated at a rate of 62 percent, compared with 53 percent for the general student body.