1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Correctly Recognizing Educational Achievements To Empower Graduates Act or the CREATE Graduates Act . 2. Create graduates Title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1133 et seq.) is amended by inserting after part B the following: C Create graduates 751. Purpose The purpose of this part is to award grants to States to support efforts at institutions of higher education or within systems of higher education to increase postsecondary degree attainment by— (1) locating, and conferring degrees to, students who have accumulated sufficient applicable postsecondary credits and maintained a sufficient grade point average to earn an associate's degree but did not receive one; (2) providing outreach to those students who are within 12 credits of earning an associate's degree