{"id":16487,"date":"2013-02-04T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T21:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=16487"},"modified":"2013-02-04T22:32:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:32:55","slug":"tampa-bay-college-students-can-earn-degree-after-transfering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/02\/04\/tampa-bay-college-students-can-earn-degree-after-transfering\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay College Students Can Earn Degree After Transferring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16488\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/02\/04\/tampa-bay-college-students-can-earn-degree-after-transfering\/2-4-reversetransfer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16488\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16488\" title=\"2-4 ReverseTransfer\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/02\/2-4-ReverseTransfer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/02\/2-4-ReverseTransfer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/02\/2-4-ReverseTransfer-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John O&#39;Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillsborough Community College president Ken Atwater signs a &quot;reverse transfer&quot; agreement Monday as University of South Florida president Judy Genshaft looks on. The agreement allows students who transfer to the University of South Florida to earn credits toward an associate&#39;s degree from one of four Tampa Bay colleges.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students who transfer to the University of South Florida can still earn a degree at their former school.<\/p>\n<p>USF and four Tampa Bay colleges signed a &#8220;reverse transfer&#8221; agreement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>That means when a student completes a class a USF, the credits can count toward an associate&#8217;s degree at Hillsborough Community College, Pasco-Hernando Community College, Polk State College and St. Petersburg College.<\/p>\n<p>HCC president Ken Atwater says students who earn enough credits at USF will automatically receive their degree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great opportunity, because just think about this: This is almost seamless for the students because this will all be electronically done,&#8221; Atwater said. &#8221; The students records will be electronically transferred to us. We&#8217;ll analyze the records. And if they earned a degree we&#8217;ll award the degree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If a student does not complete their degree at USF, they still might earn enough credits for an associate&#8217;s degree.<\/p>\n<p>Workers with an associate&#8217;s degree are more likely to find a job and earn about $500,000 more over their career, according to studies.<\/p>\n<p>HCC officials expect about 200 students will earn a degree due to the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students who transfer to the University of South Florida can still earn a degree at their former school. USF and four Tampa Bay colleges signed a &#8220;reverse transfer&#8221; agreement Monday. That means when a student completes a class a USF, the credits can count toward an associate&#8217;s degree at Hillsborough Community College, Pasco-Hernando Community College, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1096,1023,774,1070,403,1090],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16491,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16487\/revisions\/16491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}