Continuing Education Units
WSU encourages Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for individuals to update or broaden their knowledge base, skills, or aptitudes.
CEUs awarded provide a framework for those who want to achieve long-term educational goals. These opportunities provide different options offered at your own pace.
The CEU is designed as a measurement for life-long learning activities.
Increasingly, CEUs are being accepted as evidence of educational attainment by employers, certification, and licensing agencies as well as professional organizations.
Progress toward such goals is verified and documented by official record of the CEU earned.
The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as participation in a learning experience, which includes:
- a formally organized instructional activity
- responsible sponsorship
- capable direction
- qualified instruction
- one CEU is awarded for every ten contact hours of participation (1.0 CEU = 10 contact hours exclusive of breaks; 0.4 CEU = 4 contact hours)
- verification of participation (actual contact hours)
- course content which is responsive to learner needs
- evaluation of instructor and course by each participant rather than evaluation of the participant
- a transcript record maintained in perpetuity
The CEU is different from traditional academic credit but provides a standard measure of non-credit learning and is used for record keeping.
It is not equal to academic degree credit nor can it be converted to academic credit.
CEU courses use various educational formats and media such as:
- workshops
- seminars
- symposiums
- conferences
- traditional face-to-face classes
- short courses
- teleconferences
- independent study
- in-house training
Some CEU activities are taught by WSU faculty, some by community resource persons, and others by visiting experts.
A record of participation is maintained for all who earn CEUs at Winona State University.
Verification of participation documentation will be provided on request by the Adult and Continuing Education Department.
Request a transcripts by contacting the Registrar’s Office at 507.457.5030.
You must state that a transcript of CEU activities is desired.
There is a fee for transcripts for CEU activities.
Creating CEUs
Any person with knowledge of the educational needs of a group or individuals may originate a CEU activity.
Often, consultation between the client group and the Program Coordinator of the Adult and Continuing Education Department will initiate the creation of a CEU.
In other cases, faculty members who are aware of educational needs in the community may recommend a CEU activity to the Adult and Continuing Education Department.
CEU activities may be taught by any person qualified to meet the needs of a specific client group. For that reason, recommendations by the client group are encouraged.
All CEU activities are self-supporting. Client groups can minimize the cost to attendees by:
- helping to provide resource personnel to teach or assist in teaching
- making needed supplies available
- providing instructional materials
- offering meeting space