By: Jonathan Baker

Jonathan Baker
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 18:06:38 +0000

It was cited earlier that 84 Af-Am men were student-athletes in 2016. It was also mentioned that in 2016 only 9.2% of the Af-Am male population were student-athletes.

I do not believe that there were 900+ Af-Am men on campus in 2016. Are we including Af-Am men from all campuses??? In this instance it would be better to focus strictly on Columbus Campus, since that is the campus identified by student-athletes (esp. football & basketball).

In my estimation, almost 1/3 of Af-Am men on the Columbus Campus are athletes.
This stereotype has followed me into my career. People hear that I graduated from OSU and they ask if I played a sport….Now as a faculty member at OSU, I’m asking all of my students (esp. Af-Am men) to not settle for infrequent attendance and mediocre performance – there is too much at stake!

Dr. Baker
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