Apprenticeship Crosswalks

The Apprenticeship Crosswalks Project

Establishing clear links between the steps in a student’s education pathway is key to supporting credential completion, particularly in Career and Technical Education (CTE), where students use a variety of learning modalities to build their careers, including secondary and postsecondary classroom instruction and credentials, apprenticeships, internships, and employment experiences.

San Jacinto College led a 2017-2018 statewide project to make one of these links explicit through the creation of crosswalks between U.S. Department of Labor-registered apprenticeship training programs and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)-approved CTE courses. This work was supported by the Texas Workforce Commission and a THECB Perkins Leadership Grant.

Field experts were recruited to put together the Apprenticeship Crosswalks. In November 2017 and May 2018, technical faculty and representatives from various training organizations offering registered training programs met to define appropriate crosswalks from the skills and training taught in those programs and the courses in the THECB Workforce Education Course Manual, commonly known as WECM. Crosswalks in various CTE fields were developed through this consultative process. Additional crosswalks were developed in May 2021 and June 2025.

The Apprenticeship Crosswalks are designed to help Texas community colleges, employers, and training organizations work together to ensure college credit for individuals who have completed a registered apprenticeship program. Colleges may use these crosswalks and work within their own college guidelines to provide credit for prior learning to those journeymen who have completed a registered apprenticeship.

Resources

Apprenticeship Crosswalks are available in the following fields: