Assessing Two-Year College Student Athlete Retention and Persistence Rates Glendale College Conrad Amba: Research Analyst, Research and Planning Unit Edward Karpp: Dean of Research, Planning and Grants Chris Cicuto: Associate Professor, Assistant Athletic Director, Head Baseball Coach

Annual Student Headcount Fall Student Headcount

Credit Student Enrollment Status

Credit Student Gender and Age

Credit Student Ethnicity

Units Attempted Units Completed

English Placement Math Placement

Glendale College 2013-2016 Longitudinal study for three academic years Men’s Sports Basketball Football Soccer Cross Country Track and Field Tennis Golf Baseball Women’s Sports Basketball Volleyball Soccer Cross Country Track and Field Tennis Golf Softball During these years and currently, GCC offers 16 sports for men and women. 8/8 Only Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track share the same head coach. 14/16 Sports have had head coaches for five years or longer And 9/16 sports have had coaches in that sport for over 15 years. 10/16 sports have full-time Coaches- Additionally, we have 1 Full-time AD and 2 Assistants… The past 40 years, we have had only 4 Athletic Directors... This longevity and consistency provides stability to our program and student-athletes.

Governed by California Community College Athletic Associaiton Athletic Eligibility is a 16 page document under Bylaw 1 of Constitution. These are just the basic eligibility rules, each student may provide a different profile.

Non-Participant/”Redshirt”: Participation CCCAA Bylaw 1.5.1 Playing in a scheduled game, meet, or match shall be recorded as a season of competition, even if the student competed in a non-scoring position (i.e., the number 8 golfer). For student-athletes competing on behalf of the college in any game, meet, or match during a season, that shall be recorded as a season of competition in that sport. Non-Participant/”Redshirt”: Maintains Fr. Status- practices with team

Eligibility Clock NCAA DIVISION I 5 years to play 4 NCAA DIVISION II NCAA DIVISION III NAIA 10 FT Semesters NCAA Division I -5 years to play 4 years - Any time in school one day and attend class you have triggered your 5 year clock- initial eligibility. - 5 Exceptions: military service, 1 time pregnancy exception, religious mission, medical redshirt, Olympic redshirt (must apply for hardship through NCAA- 4 year school responsibility) 10 semester/ 15 quarter- full-time eligibility clock - Any time enrolled full-time in school that burns one semester / quarter of their eligibility, clock stops if enrolled in school part-time. NCAA Division III- same clock as Division II NAIA- same clock as Division II The amount of competition or practice does not matter – you are charged a season of eligibility for even a minute of competition or, in Division III, a minute of practice on or after the date of the first competition

Qualifier- Division I

Qualifier- Division II

NCAA Non-Qualifier Has not graduated from high school, or Has not earned the GPA in the core curriculum or the SAT/ACT score required to qualify Student cannot practice, play, or receive financial aid for one academic year after high school at a 4 year university

NCAA Performance Rates NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) Instituted in February of 2005 A metric established to measure the success or failure of collegiate athletic teams in moving student-athletes towards graduation A perfect score is equal to 1000 Collegiate sports teams that fail to achieve an APR score of 925 - equivalent to a 50% graduation rate - may be penalized with the loss of scholarships The APR is designed to measure semester-by-semester academic progress, and is separate from the Graduation Success Rate (GSR), which only aims to measure the actual percentage of student-athletes who graduate, thus omitting students who would have graduated but left school early for non-academic reasons (such as a professional career) NCAA Graduation Rates Graduation rates for scholarship athletes hold steady at 79% (Sander, 2010) Athletes continue to graduate at rates that exceed those of non-athletes, but some baseball, football, and men’s basketball teams still have exceptionally low rates Education Secretary Arne Duncan (January 2010) said “ Poor graduation rates among some college basketball programs would improve if the NCAA linked postseason play to the number of student-athletes getting their diplomas”

Center for Academic Success in Athletics CASA Center for Academic Success in Athletics

How to contact us??? Conrad Amba: camba@glendale.edu Edward Karpp: ekarpp@glendale.edu Chris Cicuto: ccicuto@glendale.edu