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Download full textColorado Department of Higher Education, 2025
The Colorado Re-Engaged (CORE) initiative, created under House Bill 21-1330, allows a four-year institution of higher education (IHE) to award an associate degree to former students who meet eligibility requirements -- including having already earned at least 70 credit hours before stopping-out of a bachelor's program. Under HB21-1330, each…
Descriptors: College Programs, Program Implementation, Associate Degrees, Stopouts
Anderson, Lexi – Education Commission of the States, 2015
States are taking several distinct approaches to implement reverse transfer policies. Although contextualized by state-specific factors, approaches to policy implementation commonly include determination of a group or regulatory body responsible for policy oversight, technology, funding and identification of students eligible to participate in…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Transfer Policy
Anderson, Lexi – Education Commission of the States, 2015
As states have begun to fully implement reverse transfer policies, their reported student-level outcomes data varies widely. Given the infancy of most reverse transfer policy, it is premature to pinpoint any single state action that has served to accelerate or hinder successful degree conferrals. However, taking a deeper look at exemplar state…
Descriptors: Reverse Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, State Policy, Outcomes of Education
Ganzglass, Evelyn – Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success, 2014
Postsecondary education and credentials are key to economic mobility for individuals and economic competitiveness for our nation. Although the economic return to credentials varies significantly by field of study, generally workers with higher levels of education have higher wages, work more hours, and suffer lower rates and shorter durations of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Credentials, Program Implementation, Educational Policy
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Direct linkPatton, Jane; Pilati, Michelle – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
In 2010, California's then-governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 1440, called the "Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act" (Padilla, 2010), into law. This bill mandated that the state's 112 community colleges (CCCs) develop a new type of associate degree, an "associate degree for transfer," that specifically prepares a…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Transfer Students, Reflection, College Faculty
Daale, Hans – Community College Review, 2010
Since 2006, the Netherlands has been actively engaged in a process of developing, piloting, and institutionalizing a new 2-year, short-cycle higher education degree, titled the "associate degree". This initiative evolved as a collaborative grassroots effort spearheaded by several Dutch national higher education and business organizations…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Associate Degrees, Foreign Countries
