BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 RDATE:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200831T000000 RDATE:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:eaf3a1e70016c82ca2178f8444f7e27a CATEGORIES:Community Calendar SUMMARY:Virtual Court Reporting Technology Info Session DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:
Lake Land College to host virtual Court Reporting Technology information session
Lake Land College will be hosting a virtual in formation session for its new Court Reporting Technology Degree special adm ission program September 1 at 6 p.m. Attendees will learn about the career opportunities available to court reporters.
The introduction of the program follows the increased high demand for cour t reporting and closed-captioning professionals throughout the nation.
< p style="font-weight: 400;">“Court reporting creates several opportunities for rewarding career paths for students who are interested in developing th is skill set,” Lisa Earp, business instructor/director of court reporting/o ffice professionals program coordinator, said.Instructors for the program will be available to answer questions, and all are welcome to attend. To register, visit lakelandcollege.edu/visit/.
The program will train students for careers in the judicial se tting as either official or freelance court reporters. The program also pro vides students with the option to attain a captioning specialization, which prepares students for careers providing captioning for broadcast televisio n and internet programs and working with the deaf or hard-of-hearing popula tion by providing an accurate word-for-word text translation in education, civic and corporate settings.
Requirements for application to the program include admission to Lake Land College and c ompletion of an interest survey, English and grammar exam and a timed typin g exam. Those interested must complete a Laker Profile at lakelandcollege.edu/enroll/ and s ubmit an intent to enroll at Lake Land College indicating the Academic Prog ram (major) as AAS.CRT.TRK. The next cohort of students will begin in Sprin g 2022.
Interested students may begin the p rogram with a typing speed of 40 words per minute. Keeping up with the pace of regular speech, the program is designed to train students on a speciali zed 24-key shorthand keyboard used by court reporters and captioners called a steno machine. Rather than typing out each word, letter for letter, as o n a traditional keyboard, stenographers spell out syllables phonetically on a steno machine. This form of specialized shorthand allows court reporters and captioners to capture speech with near complete accuracy.
Students will purchase or rent-to-own a steno machine.< /p>
Upon graduation, students will be prepared to sit for the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporter (CSR) or the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) Registered Skilled Reporter (RSR) and Re gistered Professional Reporter (RPR) certification exams.
For more information about the special admission Court Repor ting Technology Degree program, contact Earp at learp@lakelandcollege.edu.