Continuing education units

Office of Workforce Training and Continuing Education · Room A-112 · ext. 2310 · workforce@bellweather.tech

The continuing education unit (CEU) is a record of participation in non-credit instruction. The College awards one CEU for each ten contact hours, recorded to the nearest tenth of a unit.

Award

• CEUs are awarded for non-credit offerings of the Office of Workforce Training that have stated objectives, a qualified instructor, and recorded attendance, including short courses and customized training delivered under contract where the offering qualifies.
• A contact hour is sixty minutes of instruction. Meals, breaks, and travel are not counted.
• CEUs are awarded for full attendance only. Partial attendance is not prorated.
• CEUs are not awarded for credit courses, for clock-hour certificate programs, which are recorded in clock hours, or for third-party examinations hosted by the College.
• License renewal continuing education is reported in the contact hours the applicable board requires; see license renewal.

Example. A twelve-hour course delivered in three four-hour sessions carries 1.2 CEUs; see case studies.

The non-credit transcript

CEUs are recorded on the non-credit transcript maintained by the Office of Workforce Training. The transcript lists each offering completed, its dates, its contact hours, and the CEUs awarded. It is separate from the academic transcript issued by the Registrar and is available at no charge.

Requests are made by the participant in writing to workforce@bellweather.tech or in Room A-112, and are ordinarily fulfilled within five business days. A transcript is released to a third party, including a licensing board or an employer, only on the participant’s written authorization, except as law requires. Where an employer sponsored the training under agreement, the roster and attendance records provided to the employer are as stated in the agreement (see customized training). Replacement certificates of completion are available on request.

Records are retained under the College’s records retention schedule.

Acceptance

The College is not an accredited provider of the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Participants whose employer, board, or association requires CEUs from an accredited provider should confirm acceptance before registering.