Perkins Grant – Assistance for CTE Students

Perkins is a Federal grant for Career and Technical Education students and is designed to improve the quality of career and technical education in the U.S. To qualify for Perkins at John A. Logan College, you must be enrolled in a Career and Technical Education (CTE) program and meet the qualifying requirements.

Step #1 – Are You a CTE Student?

Career and Technical Education, also known as Workforce Education or just CTE, is designed to provide students with the knowledge and workplace skills necessary for certification and immediate employment in a given career or technical field, such as nursing, law enforcement, construction, or business management. Programs in these fields are usually two years or less in length and provide graduates with the credentials (degree, certificate, and/or licensure) necessary to immediately enter the workforce. CTE programs at John A. Logan College use real-life environments and hands-on exercises to appropriately prepare students for work in the 21st Century. Students in these programs are trained to "adapt, innovate, and lead the way" as problem-solvers and productive team-members in their chosen careers.

To find out if you are enrolled in a CTE program at John A. Logan College, just click on one of the department links below, and then on "Degrees and Certificates" (from the left-hand list) to find your program. When you click on your degree or certificate program you will be taken to the curriculum guide for your program. If your program is not listed under one of these departments, check with your Academic Advisor for more information (go to the Admissions window to make an appointment).

Step #2 – Qualifying for Perkins Assistance at John A. Logan College

Perkins Assistance is one component of the Perkins Program at John A. Logan College and has been available to students each year since 1993. This grant is awarded to qualified CTE students who are serious about dedicating the appropriate resources for completing their CTE programs on time. These students set valid goals for entering the workforce and develop objectives for reaching these goals. Perkins Assistance is designed to remove specific obstacles to completion and is limited each semester to the reimbursement of a specific amount of textbook, mileage and/or childcare expense for each qualified student.

Perkins Services is the other component of the Perkins Program and includes an array of career services for CTE students such as goal setting, resume writing, and the development of appropriate interview and workplace skills. Unlike Perkins Assistance, these services are available to all CTE students. Click on the following link to find out more about Perkins Services.

Being enrolled in a CTE program is the first step in qualifying for Perkins Assistance (Step #1, above) – the two remaining qualifiers are listed below:

CTE students must be in at least one of the six Special Populations groups below, as defined by the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006 (go to SPECIAL POPULATIONS for details).
- Displaced Homemaker – if managing your household has been your primary occupation, and your primary source of income has changed (possibly due to illness, injury, death, divorce), you may be considered a “Displaced Homemaker”
- Individual with Limited English Proficiency – if English is your second language, you may be considered an “Individual with Limited English Proficiency”
- Individual with a Disability – if you have a disability that interferes with a major life function, you may be considered an “Individual with a Disability”
- Individual with an Economic Disadvantage – if you are receiving financial aid, public aid, or living at or below the national poverty level or the self-sufficiency level for the State of Illinois, you may be considered “Economically Disadvantaged”
- Individuals Preparing for Nontraditional Occupations for their Gender – if you are preparing for an occupation where your gender comprises 25% or less of the employees in that occupation, you may be considered an “Individual Preparing for a Nontraditional Occupation”
- Single Parents, including Single Pregnant Women – if you are unmarried or legally separated and 1) have minor children for whom you have custody or 2) are pregnant, you may be considered a “Single Parent”
CTE students must be enrolled full-time (taking 12 or more credit hours from their major's curriculum guide) and must maintain a 2.0 or higher Undergraduate GPA. (For students enrolled in a Certificate Program, an official Part-Time Degree Program, or in the last semester of a CTE program, the full-time requirement is lifted provided the student is following the prescribed load for that curriculum.)

Step #3 - Applying for Perkins Assistance

The Perkins application process is now online and is structured as a Moodle learning module. There is no cost or credit associated with module enrollment, and you will be enrolled automatically when you click on the application link below. If you are not logged-in to Moodle, you will be prompted with the LOGIN screen. Click here for an instructional video of the Moodle login process. NOTE: you must activate your VolMail account before proceeding because Moodle is tied to VolMail. To activate your account, go to Volmail for JALC students and follow the prompts.

Perkins Assistance is allotted to qualified students on a first-come, first-served basis, so the earliest (and best) time to apply for Perkins Assistance is the day you register for your classes. In order to provide fair access to Perkins funding, all qualified students must submit a new application each semester.

If you are a CTE student (see Step #1) and meet the Special Populations and student qualifications (see Step #2), your next step is to go online and fill out Part A of the Perkins application (paper applications will be accepted by special permission only, please contact the Perkins Coordinator in G103 if you have any questions).

You will need the following information on-hand to complete Part A of the Perkins Application:

Your student number
A copy of your curriculum guide - you can get a copy from your advisor or print from the Department link above
A copy of your class schedule - you can get a copy from your advisor or print from
WEBLINK (link is on the bottom of the JALC homepage – password is the two-digit month, two-digit day, and two-digit year of your birth)
Your CTE Program Code and Major - found under "View My Schedule", directly below Year/Term
Your Undergraduate GPA - found on WebLink, under Academic History

When you are ready, please click on the following link: PERKINS APPLICATION - Part A to begin.

If you have any questions, please contact the Perkins Coordinator, Gary Spoerre at garyspoerre@jalc.edu or call extension 8226. When you have completed Part A, submit Part B to the Perkins Coordinator in Room G103 to complete your application. Part B must include paper copies of the following:

Your Curriculum Guide
Your schedule
Your driver's license or State ID
Your financial aid award letter (showing valid semester and award amount) or public aid award statement (showing current or applicable date.

If requesting chilcare assistance, you must also include paper copies of:

Your child's birth certificate showing relationship to applicant, and
The State license of your childcare provider or Registration with Dept. of Human Services.

You must have Adobe Reader to view PDF’s.

Once an award has been granted, you will be contacted via email at the addresses you have listed with Admissions. Please fill out the printable Perkins Mileage Form (PDF), Perkins Textbook Form (PDF), or Perkins Childcare Form (PDF) as necessary and return them to G013.

All information is confidential, as with the paper application process. John A. Logan College does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, or gender orientation.