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Title
African-American male student-athletes in Division I collegiate sports: expectations and aspirations for undergraduate degree attainment
Description
This descriptive qualitative case study explored undergraduate degree attainment by African American males in football and basketball at a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I institution in the Southwest. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with four participants at the institution to uncover experiences that helped or hindered their progress toward degree completion. Student perceptions of their environment, the role of athletics in determining future goals, and the role of the athletic institution and its constituent members in promoting or deterring degree completion is explored. Student aspiration to attain a degree, expectations for job prospects and financial opportunity after college is also discussed. Contextual and perceptual elements emerged as salient attributes in their experiences as students and athletes. The study results are consistent with previous findings linking academic engagement and motivation, to family and environment.
Date Created
2012
Contributors
- Kelly, Seanan (Author)
- Valverde, Leonard (Thesis advisor)
- Ewing, Kris (Committee member)
- Calleroz White, Mistallene (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Educational Administration
- Educational evaluation
- Black Studies
- African-American
- Collegiate-athletics
- Degree-attainment
- Division-1
- policy
- student-athlete
- African American college athletes
- African American male college students
- College graduates, Black--United States.
- College graduates, Black
- Academic achievement--United States.
Resource Type
Extent
xvii, 198 p. : ill. (some col.)
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14696
Statement of Responsibility
by Seanan Kelly
Description Source
Viewed on Dec. 17, 2014
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2012
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (146-179)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Higher and postsecondary education
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