Students who left college before graduating may get a second chance at earning their degree.
The Institute for Higher Education Policy and the Lumina Foundation for Education announced a joint program on Wednesday to find formerly enrolled college students whose academic records qualify them to be awarded associate degrees retroactively.
The three-year, $1.3-million effort, called Project Win-Win, also plans to identify former students who are fell just short of an associate degree, by nine or fewer credits, and re-enroll them to earn a degree.
The project has the potential to be a real game-changer in terms of the nation's efforts to achieve the college-completion goals set out by President Obama, the nation's governors, and Lumina. The president has repeatedly called for more Americans to earn college certificates or degrees so that by 2020 the United States can once again have the world's highest proportion of college graduates.
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Author: Jennifer Gonzalez
