{"id":996,"date":"2004-12-13T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/13\/virginia_news_h_1\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T21:01:00","slug":"virginia_news_h_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/13\/virginia_news_h_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News: Higher Ed Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Virginia colleges expecting an increase of about 10,000 Virginia students wanting a college education in the coming years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyprogress.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1031779630173&#038;path=!news\">new ideas<\/a> are needed.  With a good community college system, one hopes state legislators would be willing to force the better institutions to commit to taking any student who gets an associate degree at a community colleges.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a new agreement with Old Dominion University, some Piedmont Virginia Community College students who were late in deciding to go for a bachelor&#8217;s degree will be able to transfer seamlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Students with associate degrees in applied sciences &#8211; awarded for completion of occupational and technical programs &#8211; will be able to automatically transfer into ODU as juniors if they have at least a C average.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, only students with associate degrees in arts and science could transfer automatically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Virginia colleges expecting an increase of about 10,000 Virginia students wanting a college education in the coming years, new ideas are needed. With a good community college system, one hopes state legislators would be willing to force the better institutions to commit to taking any student who gets an associate degree at a community&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/13\/virginia_news_h_1\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}