David Turner
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American
Degree Requirement Change
As part of the SAE committee, I wanted you to be aware of the upgrade in
American Degree requirements starting in 2015. If you could distribute
among your state to make sure everyone is aware of the upgrade in requirements.
This is in addition to the community service upgrade, effective 2011.
The applicants for the 2015 American Degree need to start
planning for the financial requirement change to go into effect calendar year
2015.
Start Records as a:
Freshman – 2011
Sophomore – 2012
Junior – 2013
Senior – 2014
Apply for American Degree – 2015
• A
student after entering agricultural education must have:
1) earned at least $ 10,000.00 and productively invested at least
$7,500.00; or
2) earned and productively invested $2,000.00 and worked 2,250 hours
in excess of scheduled class time.
• Any
combination of hours, times a factor of 3.56, plus actual dollars earned
and productively invested must be equal to or greater than the number 10,000.
• Hours
used for the purpose of producing earnings reported as productively invested
income shall not be duplicated as hours of credit to meet
the minimum requirements for the degree.
If you have any questions, please let me know.