Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) have introduced a bill to enable the awarding of associate\u2019s degrees to students who transfer from community college programs to four-year colleges and universities without attaining a bachelor\u2019s degree. The CREATE Graduates Act would create state incentives to encourage four-year institutions to adopt \u201creverse-transfer\u201d programs to enable transfer students from two-year institutions to obtain the associate\u2019s degrees they would have earned had they remained at the two-year institutions and completed the required credits. The goal of the bill is to allow eligible students to obtain an associate\u2019s degree despite having to leave a four-year program prior to graduation in order to take a job, care for a family member, or because they can no longer afford the cost of college, for example. The legislation would build on the success of a grant-funded pilot program currently underway at schools in 15 states, which is expected to enable thousands of students to obtain associate\u2019s degrees.<\/p>\n
Client Tip<\/strong>: Institutions should monitor the outcome of this bill, and, if passed in its current form, consider reviewing the incentives offered for adopting a \u201creverse-transfer\u201d program for transfer students who leave the institution before obtaining a four-year degree.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) have introduced a bill to enable the awarding of associate’s degrees to students who transfer from community college programs to four-year colleges and universities without attaining a bachelor’s degree. The CREATE Graduates Act would create state incentives to encourage four-year institutions to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n