Sentence examples for credentials awarded from inspiring English sources

In fact, only about half of the credentials awarded by undergraduate institutions are traditional bachelor's degrees.

Last year, the nation's colleges awarded one million such certificates — more than triple the 300,000 awarded in 1994 and more than one-fifth of all postsecondary credentials awarded last year.

In the last three decades, the number of occupational licenses, industry certifications, and other post-secondary credentials awarded has jumped 800percentt.

The number of bachelor's degrees awarded in traditional arts-and-sciences fields (English, mathematics, and biology, for example) has tumbled from almost half of the undergraduate credentials awarded in 1968 to 26percentt in 2010.

Ms. Portman is one of a handful of high-profile actors who happen to have serious scientific credentials — awards, degrees, patents and theorems in their name.

Private two- and four-year nonprofit colleges and universities have also stepped into the game, with about 6 percent of their undergraduate credentials now awarded as certificates rather than degrees.

When the marks a student receives on each assignment or test count towards the final grade on which a credential is awarded, as familiarly happens in K-12, the awarding of course grades can no longer be used as an effective way for a student (and an instructor) to gauge progress.

Marcia F. Gowen, the center's marketing consultant and tenant coordinator, said that the center, which has about 130 credentialed physicians, typically awarded new credentials to about three doctors a month.

But the more open-ended J-1 visa for "exchange visitors" may be a better choice for researchers considering permanent residency, because the H-1B's 3.5-year limitation can kick in before a green card -- America's permanent-resident credential -- is awarded.

For the first time bloggers were awarded press credentials to the 2004 presidential conventions.

This issue has been moot until now, since no institution has awarded a credential for a MOOC, but that is in the process of changing.