{"id":3770,"date":"2012-02-21T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T01:05:55","slug":"maui-students-commit-to-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/02\/21\/maui-students-commit-to-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui College students commit to complete degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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UH<\/abbr> Maui College students signed a banner and pledged their commitment to completing their degrees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 150 University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Maui College<\/a> students recently pledged to complete their degrees or certifications as part of a national community college movement to promote college completion.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Maui College’s chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society<\/a> led the Commit to Complete<\/a> pledge signing ceremony and event as students gathered to sign the pledge banner now housed in the campus’ student lounge.<\/p>\n

One student who signed the UH<\/abbr> Maui College pledge banner remarked, “I already made this promise to myself, but it feels more real now that I signed the pledge.”<\/p>\n

Statistics show the surest way for anyone to land a job in their chosen field is to finish college and earn a degree or certificate. By signing the pledge, UH<\/abbr> Maui College students promised to complete their degrees and certifications before leaving community college for transfer or to enter the job market.<\/p>\n

About the Community College Completion Challenge<\/h2>\n

In April 2010, leaders of six national organizations representing the nation’s 1,200 community colleges, their governing boards, their faculty and their 11.8 million students pledged in a statement of commitment to increase student completion rates by 50 percent over the next decade. Leaders of the American Association of Community Colleges<\/a>, Association of Community College Trustees<\/a>, League for Innovation<\/a>, Center for Community College Student Engagement<\/a>, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development<\/a>, and Phi Theta Kappa<\/a> signed the Democracy’s Colleges Call to Action statement to engage all stakeholders in supporting community college completion.<\/p>\n

In October 2010, the first White House Summit on Community Colleges was hosted by Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden and a community college professor. President Barack Obama, philanthropist Melinda Gates and a host of speakers praised community colleges for serving almost half of the nation’s college students and playing a pivotal role in educating the workforce. President Obama has called for community colleges to produce an additional 5 million degrees and certificates in the next 10 years, part of his goal to restore the United States as the world’s leader in college graduates.<\/p>\n

The Community College Completion Challenge website showcases the missions, action plans and strategies developed by each organization to involve their constituency in a joint venture to produce 5 million more associate degree and certificate holders by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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