Serving
Adams, Wells, Jay and
Huntington County High Schools
Meeting Student and Local
School Corporation/Community Needs
A Life-Long Learner Lives to Learn and
Learns to Live
Area 18
Administrative Board
Jim Craig
Cathy Egolf
Dr. Tim Long
Dr. Scott Mills
Michael Pettibone
Tracey Shafer
Wylie Sirk
Dr. Julie Wood
Judy Emshwiller
Area 18 Director
Area
18
Career & Technical
Education
Mission Statement:
All students will
be given the opportunity to reach their fullest
potential and to be successful in life. Through
involvement and participation, participating school
corporations will provide a positive, safe, and
supportive environment for students to learn and
achieve. A collaborative partnership among parents,
teachers, staff, and the business community will assume
responsibility for the future success of our students.
ABOUT AREA 18
In
1963, Indiana passed a law which allowed schools to cooperate with each
other in order to provide a cost-effective method for joint delivery of
specialized and expensive vocational/technical programs.
Area 18 Vocational Education (now known as Area 18 Career & Technical
Education) was created in 1982 with Adams Central, Bluffton-Harrison,
South Adams and Southern Wells forming the partnership. North Adams
lined the group in 1988, Jay County in 1994, Northern Wells in 1997, and
Huntington in 1999.
Area
18 Career & Technical Education has gone from an enrollment of only a
few students in 1982 to over 6,400students in the 2008–2009 school
year.
COOPERATIVE DATA
Area 18 covers 1,469 square miles serving a population of more than
121,000 residents working mainly in manufacturing, farming, and service
industries. Of the almost 20,000 students enrolled in the Area 18 K-12
schools, about 6,500 were enrolled in the public high schools and over
6,400 of
them were in Area 18 programs (2008–2009 statistics).
Area 18
Career & Technical Education Office
# 1 Tiger Trail
Bluffton, IN 46714
Judy Emshwiller - Director
260-824-4602
