Mission Statement: The CAT program provides specialized training leading directly to employment or allowing employed individuals to retrain or update skills for promotion. Major goals include

• training for professional clerical and administrative/executive careers
• education in deportment and skills required for hire
• retraining for skills update and/or promotion

Program Certificates: The CAT program offers seven certificates. The Executive Office Management Certificate may also be obtained by completing the short–term Office Assistant, Administrative Office Professional, and Executive Office Professional certificates listed below. It is suggested that each of these smaller occupational certificates be completed in the recommended order. The skills obtained in the recommended order build to from basic to advanced-level skills.

1. Office Assistant
2. Administrative Office Professional
3. Executive Office Professional

Legal Secretarial Program: The City campus is located just minutes from the downtown courthouse and legal community. The Legal Secretary Studies Certificate program is comprised of 4 classes, offered online, and is geared toward quick acquisition of skills needed to obtain employment or updated training for working legal clerical professionals in just 2 semesters.

Office Fast Track Certificate: This new, short-term completion certificate provides entry-level skills. All classes in this certificate program are offered in an individually-paced format under instructor supervision.

Online Courses: Due to strong demand many of the CAT program courses are offered online and in hybrid modes. This Web-dependent delivery method reflects the needs of the local labor market and has the support of local employers who serve on our advisory committee.

Courses Offered Exclusively Online: CAT 36A, 36B, 37, 38, 40, 57, 58, 61, and 62

Courses Offered Fall Semester Only: CAT 40 and 61

Courses Offered Spring Semester Only: CAT 62

Certificates and Graduation: Certificate and graduation requirements apply to students enrolled for the school year catalog when they began from the time they began attendance of 1 semester for each academic year. Please contact CAT faculty (Contact Link at this Web site) for addtional information regarding your program completion.