Cuyahoga Valley Career Center

The Cuyahoga Valley Career Center is an extension of Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School and offers students a variety of career and technical education programs during their junior and senior years. These programs are designed to provide students with marketable technical skills and preparation for a career or further education making use of those skills. Upon graduation from high school, students are ready for immediate employment or for continued training in their chosen field in an apprenticeship, at a technical institute or at a two- or four-year college. Entry to CVCC programs is by application online at www.cvccworks.edu.

Earning College Credit

Career-Technical Credit Transfer (CT)2: Students are guaranteed the transfer of applicable credits among Ohio’s public colleges and universities and equitable treatment in the application of credits to admissions and degree requirements. (CT)2 helps more high school and career-technical students to go to college and enter with college credit; technical credit saves students money and time; and Ohio business and industry will benefit from more employees with higher education and advanced skills. This site provides information on career-technical course work that students can complete and transfer. It also provides information for campus staff to facilitate program approval for their career-technical programs.

Students who successfully complete specified technical programs are eligible to have technical credit transfer to Ohio public colleges and universities. This transfer of credit is described in Career-Technical Assurance Guides (CTAG). CTAGs are advising tools that assist students moving from Ohio secondary and career technical institutions to Ohio public institutions of higher education.

Ohio College Tech Prep program is a seamless, non-duplicative, integrated pathway of education and experience that begins in 11th grade and continues through college and beyond. The curriculum reflects real-world technical careers in high demand today and prepares students to be college and career ready. The Tri-C Tech Prep program connects high school and college education to high-skill and high-demand technical employment. Students are enrolled in the Tech Prep program through their high school district.

Bilateral Articulation Agreements are created between a high school career technical program and a specific Ohio college or university. These agreements are established, written, and agreed upon by both educational institutions to grant college credit opportunities to high school students. Cuyahoga Valley Career Center has Bilateral Articulation Agreements with the following colleges and universities for select programs: • Hocking Technical College • Stark State • The University of Akron • Kent State University • The Culinary Institute of America • University of Northwestern Ohio.

Academics/Scheduling

CVCC programs are two years in length and carry 4 units of elective credit per year, although some programs carry a mix of academic and elective credits (credits are listed with each program description). Students generally attend CVCC for half of each school day to take a technical course, and take regular academic courses at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School for the other half of the day. Exceptions are noted in the course descriptions. Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School provides bus transportation to and from CVCC.

Admissions Requirements

Students enrolling at CVCC must have completed two years of high school by the year in which they begin a program. Students on track for graduation at the end of their sophomore year, by having completed at least seven of the fifteen core academic credits required for graduation by the Ohio Department of Education, are assigned “priority” status for enrollment. The credits must include two in Language Arts, two in Mathematics and any combination of three credits in Science, Social Studies, Health or Physical Education. Students not meeting this standard are assigned “regular” status and are accepted after all priority status students have been placed. For each regular status student, the guidance office must submit a written plan for completing graduation requirements and have received approval by the CVCC administration by the first day of school. Several CVCC programs have unique admission requirements (pre-requisite courses, grade point average, interviews, etc.) See the individual program descriptions for details. In accordance with best practices, admission of students with disabilities should be the result of an IEP/transition team meeting to which the appropriate CVCC representative has been invited.

Campus Wear

All CVCC students are required to purchase or rent prescribed campus wear, which must be worn while class is in session. Students in Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Dental Assisting, Health Careers, Medical Administrative Specialist and Public Health & Safety purchase uniforms from uniform supply stores.

Hotels & Resorts students purchase pants on their own, but jackets and caps are purchased through CVCC. Students in Auto Body, Auto Service Technology and Power Equipment Technology rent uniforms through CVCC. The cost is included in the class fee. All other students purchase program shirts through CVCC. Except where noted, uniform costs are not included in the listed program fees.

Please note: Program fees may be subject to change.