Welcome to Prince Institute:

When you ask more from yourself, you receive more. If you want a balanced life filled with professional rewards and personal enrichment, a career as a real time court reporter, live and video captioner, or CART provider may be the ideal path for you.

The Prince Advantage:

Prince Institute is owned by Stenograph, LLC, a company committed to meeting information technology needs within the court reporting and captioning communities since 1938. Stenograph is also the lead developer of online training programs, giving our organization and our students a competitive edge.
Our instructors are passionate, knowledgeable, and experienced in what they teach. They understand you on a personal level and support you along your journey.
With small class sizes our students enjoy personal attention and one-on-one coaching from our experienced faculty.
This is your school—your opportunity. At Prince Institute our administration listens and values your opinions, ideas, and concerns.

Prince Institute—Rocky Mountains and Southeast campuses are participating partners with Vocational Rehabilitation, and are approved for VA. Benefits.

Programs Offered:

- Realtime Reporting: CART/Captioning Concentration

See for yourself: captioning can change people’s lives

In today’s age of instant access to news and entertainment, captioning has become a vital component in helping people all over the world receive information. Both realtime captioning and CART reporting bring information to more than 30 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people in the United States alone.

About Realtime Captioning
You may have been in a restaurant, gym, or airport where you watched live television with words—called captions—scrolling across the screen. What you see in those cases is realtime captioning. It is provided on all live broadcasts as “closed captions” which are opened by your TV if you choose “CC" on your remote. Specially trained reporters use technology to provide captions for news programs, emergency broadcasts, sports events, and a host of other live programs. Realtime captioning is especially important in times of weather disasters or national emergencies.

In 1996 Congress enacted the Telecommunications Act which mandated that by 2006, 100 percent of all new television programming had to be closed-captioned. This highlights the critical need of identifying and training skilled captioners to fulfill this important community service. The audience for captioning is expanding and now includes patrons in noisy environments such as restaurants and gyms.

About CART
CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation), also referred to as realtime open captioning or live-event captioning, is a way to translate the spoken word into readable text using a stenotype machine, notebook computer, and realtime software. A CART reporter often sits next to a deaf or hard-of-hearing person writing everything that happens on a computer screen so that this person can read it. A CART reporter is not just there to create a verbatim record, but to help the deaf or hard-of-hearing person understand the proceedings, which may mean paraphrasing, interpreting, and two-way communication.

These professionals can work in a variety of settings, enabling CART students to further their education and explore different career paths. The CART/captioning program at Prince Institute can help you gain the skills necessary to help clients in:

Courtrooms
Classrooms
Conventions and conferences
Personal appointments and meetings
Religious services and civic events
Cultural presentations and more

With the signing of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, CART/captioning will be of even greater importance, as this act requires that all Internet video that is broadcast on television must also be captioned on the Web.

This field is evolving and the Prince Institute CART/captioning program can help prepare you for the rewarding and diverse challenges that lie ahead.

- Realtime Reporting: Judicial Reporting Concentration

The verdict is in: court reporters garner respect and rewards

Court reporting is a highly respected and critical position in our local and national governments and our society at large. Even with unemployment hovering at record highs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a growth of 18% in this field—faster than average for all occupations through 2018.

For individuals seeking a long-term career with stability, flexibility, and full-time incomes that are solidly above the U.S. median, becoming a court reporter is the opportunity of a lifetime. Many of our alumni enjoy comfortable lifestyles filled with a wide range of career options and time to pursue fulfilling personal lives.

To help you embark on your own professional and personal journey to an ideal work/life balance, Prince Institute offers comprehensive realtime judicial reporting programs at three campuses across the country and online.

Our programs are designed to give you the knowledge, skills, and tools to excel as a court reporter. Expect to learn:

A machine shorthand speed of 225 WPM
How to prepare transcripts using computer-aided transcription (CAT) software
Realtime writing
Proficiency in English grammar
An understanding of legal principles and medical terminology
Interpersonal communication skills
Legal and business ethics
Professionalism

As technology continues to become more sophisticated, court reporting in the judicial environment will become more specialized. Prince Institute has excelled in court stenographer training for over 35 years, equipping our students with the tools needed to become successful graduates. According to the National Court Reporters Association, employment in the court reporting field is expected to grow much faster than the average profession and opportunities for well-trained certified court reporters will be plentiful all over the country.

- Scoping/Proofreading

Take note: scopists are invaluable to the reporting process

Court reporters and scopists are like peanut butter and jelly—they work great together. Scopists are responsible for proofreading and editing a reporter’s rough draft and creating a well-formatted transcript. To create these transcripts, scopists use sophisticated computer technology, application programs, and text transmittal application systems, making this position invaluable to realtime reporters.

As the demand for court reporters grows, so will the need for professionally-trained scopists. In fact, the occupational outlook for court reporters, stenographers, and transcriptionists is “excellent” according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

The scoping/proofreading program at Prince Institute is designed to meet this growing need for skilled scopists and proofreaders within the community of court reporters. Students who enroll in the realtime judicial reporting program who have demonstrated sound knowledge of theory principles and good skills in English and technology may choose this Scoping/Proofreading Certificate program as an alternative to completing the reporting program. The Prince Institute scoping/proofreading program covers:

Note reading
Keyboarding
Transcript formatting using a CAT system
Computer technology, application programs, and text transmittal application systems
Legal principles and terminology
Professionalism

Acquiring these additional skills gives students the flexibility to pursue employment in the realtime reporting profession in an auxiliary capacity.

Testimonial:

“Prince Institute has given me the opportunity to fulfill a dream after many years in a different career. The teachers and staff made the transition from workforce to school a breeze with their encouragement and commitment to me as a student to succeed.”
– KATHERINE B.