Four-Year Program
Career and Community Studies offers a four-year, non-degree program designed to prepare students for adult life through academic pursuits, peer socialization, and career discovery and preparation.
Career and Community Studies offers a four-year, non-degree program designed to prepare students for adult life through academic pursuits, peer socialization, and career discovery and preparation.
Career and Community Studies prepares students to become self-determined and autonomous adults. Our alumni work in various career fields, from hospitality to childcare. Check out some of their stories!
From working in the May 4 Visitors Center to social media, our students are gaining real-world experience in various careers on- and off-campus.
For more than 10 years ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø at Ashtabula has built a partnership with the technology company ID Networks, giving information technology students real-life experience in their field and helping to connect them to a potential employer. ID Networks is a software company located in Ashtabula, Ohio, that provides public safety, law enforcement and identification-based software to law enforcement agencies across the United States. The company supports Ashtabula’s Information Technology program by recruiting students for internships and also by looking at the campus...



Sounds of joyful singing could be heard coming from Oscar Ritchie Hall, when a group of nine students and their professor from the University of Fort Hare in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa, were welcomed to ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø as part of an exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in South Africa. During a welcome ceremony at Oscar Ritchie, the Fort Hare students were asked to introduce themselves, and several began their introductions by singing, explaining that in their culture, it is customary to begin such a presentation with a song or poem that reflects the person who ...