{"id":15982,"date":"2017-10-19T03:56:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=15982"},"modified":"2017-10-28T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T16:56:09","slug":"state-sets-record-for-college-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/10\/19\/state-sets-record-for-college-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"State Sets Record For College Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15983\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/10\/19\/state-sets-record-for-college-credentials\/imageso77io04i\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/imagesO77IO04I.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"259,194\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"imagesO77IO04I\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/imagesO77IO04I.jpg?fit=259%2C194&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/imagesO77IO04I.jpg?resize=259%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15983\" \/><br \/>\nKentucky&#8217;s public and independent colleges and universities conferred a record 70,146 degrees and credentials during the 2016-17 academic year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The state Council on Postsecondary Education says that figure is up more than 6 percent from the prior year and is a nearly 35 percent gain from 10 years ago. Council President Bob King says the results reflect the efforts on campuses to improve student success. The report shows one-year increases for career-oriented certificates and degrees at the associate, bachelor, master and doctoral levels.<\/p>\n<p>The gains come as Kentucky has set a goal of having 60 percent of its working-age population with a postsecondary credential or degree by 2030. The council says the percentage in 2015 was 45 percent in Kentucky, compared to a national average of 53 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky&#8217;s public and independent colleges and universities conferred a record 70,146 degrees and credentials during the 2016-17 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-49M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 02:12:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15985,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions\/15985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}