Scholarships

The Court Reporting Program at Del Mar College has partnered with several companies to provide various scholarships for both prospective students and students currently in the program.

For further information on any of the scholarship opportunities, contact Court Reporting Instructor Suzette Weis at 361-698-1419 or sweis@delmar.edu.

Veritext Legal Solutions

Veritext Legal Solutions partners with local reporting schools throughout the country to support their court reporting programs. Veritext has now partnered with Del Mar College Court Reporting program.  Scholarships are available to new and returning students; both to those seeking to learn stenography theory and to those who are advancing through training programs, working on speed and accuracy in order to achieve completion.

Veritext awarded it's first scholarship to a Del Mar Court Reporting student on August 19, 2019.

LEXITAS LEGAL

In a continuation of efforts to encourage the continued growth of the local court reporting community, Lexitas Legal has become a financial partner to the Court Reporting Program at Del Mar College.

NCRA

Students who have completed an NCRA A to Z® Intro to Steno Machine Shorthand program and are enrolled in a court reporting program are encouraged to apply for consideration of one of 15 $750 NCRF A to Z® scholarship awards.

Congratulations to Caroline Coggins, one of the recipients of NCRA's $750 Scholarship for the A to Z program. Congratulations, Caroline!

With more than 12,000 members, the National Association of Court Reporters is internationally recognized for its impact on legislative issues and global marketplace and have industry-recognized court reporting, captioning, educator, and videographer certifications.

Project Steno

Project Steno’s Basic Training program is a free introductory six-week program designed to introduce you to the rudiments of machine shorthand theory, the system used by professional court reporters and captioners to capture high-speed speech using a stenotype machine. In just a couple of hours of “class” time each week plus at-home practice time, you’ll learn how to write simple words in machine shorthand and become familiar with the steno keyboard. By the end of the program, you’ll know whether a career in court reporting or captioning appeals to you! Completion of one of these programs is required for Project Steno’s tuition assistance program.  To register, visit projectsteno.org/students.

Once you have decided that court reporting is right for you, you can apply to Project Steno’s tuition assistance program.  Project Steno offers tuition assistance to students we believe have the time and motivation to finish school in two years. Not all applicants will be accepted. All applicants will be interviewed by members of the Project Steno board and/or advisory council.

U.S. Legal Support

U.S. Legal Support has partnered with Del Mar College for the first incentive-based program in the history of Del Mar's Court Reporting Program.  The first student that passes a speed of 160 words per minute or above in one semester will be awarded $1,000.00.  The first award for the Del Mar Program was given in December 2019.

Congratulations to Paige Bennett for receiving the $1,000 scholarship awarded by U.S. Legal Support for the spring 2024 semester!

U.S. Legal Support is proud to partner with Del Mar College on this incentive-based program for court reporting students to help encourage and grow the stenographic community. We look forward to our continued partnership as we remain committed to the recruitment and education of the next generation of professional stenographers nationwide.

Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded in 1996, U.S. Legal Support is a privately held company with over 85 offices located across the United States.  As one of the leading providers of litigation services, U.S. Legal Support is the only litigation support company that provides a full suite of court reporting solutions, record retrieval, interpreting & translations, trial services, and transcription services to major insurance companies, corporations, and law firms nationwide.