Career & College Directions

Program History

Career and College Directions, a U.S. Department of Education TRIO Talent Search program, began in 1978 when Oakland City University sent its first Talent Search grant proposal to the U.S. Department of Education. The original name of the program was Educational Talent Search, and in its early years, the program served 600 participants in the counties of Crawford, Daviess, Gibson, Perry, Pike, and Spencer in Indiana. The program has been in continuous operation since that time. In the 2002-2003 school year the name was changed to Career and College Directions to make the purpose of the program more clear. Directions currently serves 750 students in schools in the counties of: Crawford, Daviess, Gibson, Martin, Perry, Pike, Spencer and Vanderburgh in Indiana and Daviess County, Kentucky. Directions also serves high school dropouts and high school graduates who have postponed enrolling in college, as well as college dropouts.