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Educational Non-Credit Activity Definition

• Any non-degree credit workshop, conference, seminar, short program, course or other structured educational experience in which participants register by name. Enrollment is not limited to campus faculty, staff and students.
• In general, such an activity will be one that includes prior planning of the event and designation of materials to be used in the activity, qualified instruction, a syllabus with stated objectives, and program evaluation.
• The institution sponsors or offers the activity if it reviews or develops the content for the activity.
• The institution hosts the activity if it makes available its facilities and/or provides support services to an outside sponsor, but has no responsibility for reviewing or developing the content for the activity.

Such activities are offered for the purpose of enhancing employment opportunities and job skills, improving citizenship skills, supporting economic or community development, or enriching personal understanding and skill development. They may, but need not, confer Continuing Education Units (CEUs)* or similar awards that formally recognize student participation. They may be offered synchronously or asynchronously. If they are inter-institutional programs, participant counts should be prorated or assigned to a designated "lead" institution. (December 12, 1997)

Examples of activities that should be included are computer training courses; in-service training courses for teachers, health workers, and other professionals; youth programs for educational enrichment; corporation-sponsored training; elderhostels; travel/study tours; training programs for schools and units of government; and noncredit offerings for students enrolled in degree-credit courses.

Examples of activities that should be excluded are lectures or other activities not open to the public, meeting held on the campus with no other institutional involvement and no registration process, cultural events and intercollegiate sports activities.

Important!

Educational activities that generate Continuing Education Units (CEUs) sponsored by NC State University and require prior approval from the office of the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Extension and Continuing Education should not be included in this process since that information is collected through a separate University software system.

However, those activities that provide continuing education recognition or related professional certification through societies/associations must be included along with all non-CEU offerings.