  {"id":8270,"date":"2012-07-13T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=8270"},"modified":"2021-03-25T08:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:38:20","slug":"students-encouraged-to-take-15-to-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/13\/students-encouraged-to-take-15-to-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Students encouraged to take 15 to Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_1579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1579\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/p20-grads.jpg\" alt=\"students in graduation garb and lei\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1579\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Graduation Initiative, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System students are encouraged to take 15 credits per semester to graduate on time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> System<\/a> encourages full-time students at any of its two- or four-year campuses to take 15 credits per semester to graduate on time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of the university&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/vp-academic-strategy\/hgi\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Graduation Initiative<\/a>, which aims to increase the number of college graduates by 25 percent by the year 2015.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this goal, <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> hopes to encourage students to graduate on time, save tuition money and start their careers as quickly as possible simply by registering for more credits per semester.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A student who takes only 12 credits per semester at a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campus is technically a &lsquo;full-time&rsquo; student,&rdquo; explains <strong>Linda Johnsrud<\/strong>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> executive vice president for academic affairs and provost. &ldquo;That student, however, will not earn a two-year degree in two years or a four-year degree in four years. Plus the four-year degree may cost as much as $12,000 more because the student isn\u2019t taking advantage of the tuition cap.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Many <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System students have or will be receiving information on the benefits of enrolling in more classes as part of their registration or new-student orientation materials. <abbr>UH<\/abbr> students are able to add classes right up until the first day of classes on August 20.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=5190\">news release<\/a> or visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/vp-academic-strategy\/hgi\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Graduation Initiative website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full-time students at all 10 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> campuses are encouraged to take 15 credits per semester to graduate on time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[61,340,62,63,64,65,14,9,60,947,59,66],"class_list":["post-8270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaii-graduation-initiative","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137867,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions\/137867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}