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Continuing Education Units (CEU's)

CEU Brochure

CEU Application

About

At Norfolk State University Continuing Education, the mission is to provide outreach services and educational opportunities for traditional and non-traditional young students as well as adults.  Adults are generally defined as those persons working on a career path for recertification, retraining or simply self-enrichment.

Advantages to Awarding the Continuing Education Unit (CEU)

The advantages to awarding the Continuing Education Unit (CEU) are:

• Document continued learning experiences
• Incentives for advanced training
• Educational programs for the "Life-Long Learning"
• Affiliation with accredited institution of higher learning.

Maintenance and Availability

• A permanent record of participation is maintained by Continuing Education for each individual to whom CEU's are awarded.
• Cumulative records of all CEU's earned by each participant will be available for issue as an official statement or transcript upon request by the participant.

Registration and Fees

Prior to the learning experience, each organization requesting evaluation for C.E.U. credit must provide Norfolk State University with the following:

1. Purpose and intended learning outcomes
2. Requirements for satisfactory completion
3. Content description and level, format, instructional methodology
4. Instructor resume
5. Time schedule showing contact hours

Fees are in increments of $15 in accordance with hours of instruction and any fraction thereof:

• up to 1.0 CEU = $15
• 1.1 to 2.0 CEU's = $30
• Example: 1.4 CEU's = $30

Awarding the CEU

• One CEU is awarded for each ten (10) contact hours of instruction

• The number of complete instructional hours is considered in assigning CEU's.  For example, 1.7 CEU's are assigned for a learning experience with a total of 17, or 17.75 instructional contact hours.