2017-18 PBC YEARBOOK
Flagler College receives Third
Straight Presidents’ Award for Aca-
demic Excellence
ST. AUGUSTINE – Flagler College is
one of 32 NCAA Division II member
institutions to be honored as part
of the Presidents’ Award for Aca-
demic Excellence for achieving a
four-year Academic Success Rates
of 90 percent or higher. This is
the seventh year of the program.
Flagler remained the same from
the previous year with an Aca-
demic Success Rate (ASR) of 94
percent. Last year was Flagler’s
third year in the 90th percentile.
Flagler is one of six schools in
the state of Florida to receive the
presidents’ award and it was tied
with Eckerd College, in ASR, as the
best in the entire state. The St.
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Augustine-based school is the lone
Peach Belt Conference member
institution to receive this award.
“We are thrilled to be ranked in
the top tier of all Division II schools
in our Academic Success Rate,”
said Flagler College President Dr.
Joseph G. Joyner. “I am extreme-
ly proud of all of our student-
athletes for their character and
scholarship.”
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 stu-
dent-athletes, including transfers
and those not receiving athletics
scholarships.
The Division II ASR captures about
48 percent more student-athletes
than the federal graduation rate.
Unlike the federal rate, the ASR
counts non-scholarship student-
athletes and those who transfer
to a school after initial enroll-
ment elsewhere, while remov-
ing student-athletes who leave
school while academically eligible.
Nationally, the ASR is 72 percent
for Division II student-athletes
who entered college from 2007
through 2010, an increase of one
percentage point from the 2006-
09 groups.