College of Court Reporting gets $300,000 federal grant
The College of Court Reporting (CCR) has received a $300,000 grant from the United States Department of Education, according to the Times of Northwest Indiana.
Located in Hobart, Indiana, the CCR has been educating court reporters since 1984. What's unique about CCR, though, is that all classes are offered online. The school is run by Jeff Moody and had an exhibition at the NCRA 2012 Annual Convention and Exposition that was in Philadelphia earlier this month.
"The College of Court Reporting is honored to receive its second grant award from the U.S. Department of Education," said Jay Vettickal, executive director for the College of Court Reporting. "The combination of the college's ev360 technologies and dedicated faculty contribute to graduating and placing a record number of real-time ready students since the first grant awarded in 2011. And this new grant will help the college produce even more real-time providers within the next year and in the future."
While CCR may not be as old as the MacCormac College in Chicago, which turned 100 years old earlier this year, the school is a major court reporting college in the United States.
In addition to the $300,000 grant from the Department of Education, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that court reporters will experience a 14 percent growth over the next decade as needs for live event and broadcast captioning put more demand on the skillset.
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