Perkins Career Prep

The goal of the State's Career Prep program is to promote and support high school to college transitions for career and technical education students. Career Prep initiatives should be enhancing a high school student's technical and academic skills and providing opportunities for transition to postsecondary education or into the workforce.

Career Prep Coordinators by WTCS Technical Colleges (PDF file)

Ways in Which High School Students Can Earn Technical College Credit through Articulation

Articulation refers to aligning high school and postsecondry curricula to create sequences of courses offering skill attainment with unnecessary duplication. Articulation focuses on providing opportunities for high school students to take college level course work in order to get a head start on earning college credits while continuing to fulfill high school graduation requirments. The above link displays a chart which shows the differences between Advanced Standing and Transcripted Credit.

Use Links to the right to access the Career Prep Portion of the FY 2010-11 Perkins IV Grant Guidelines	MS Word	PDF
Use Links to the right to access the High School to College Transition Portion of the FY 2009-10 Perkins IV Grant Guidelines (Page 46 in the Guidelines)	MS Word	PDF

Additional Resources

Perkins Reserve Fund FY2011-12 Career Prep Planning Amounts (updated May, 2011).
National Career Pathways Network
NCPN, Formally the National Tech Prep Network, will provide resources for Programs of Study, Career Pathways and Clusters as well as strategies for smooth transitions from Secondary to Post Secondary Education.

For more information contact ann.westrich@wtcsystem.edu at (608) 261-4588.

Last modified: July 15, 2011.