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PROVOST’S TASK FORCE ON
CERTIFICATES |
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Patricia Bartscher,
University Counsel; Chair |
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LucyAnn Geiselman, Dean,
College of Extended Learning |
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Richard Giardina, AVP,
Academic Planning and Assessment |
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Karen Johnson-Brennan,
Professor, School of Nursing |
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Gerald Platt, Interim Dean,
College of Business |
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Jim Van Ness, Internal
Auditor, Business and Finance |
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Pamela Vaughn, Chair,
Academic Senate |
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Yenbo Wu, Director,
International Programs |
Basic guiding principles for all SFSU certificates:
All SFSU certificates must fall under one of three categories listed below
They must specify exactly what the certificate is for: e.g., the completion
of a Senate-approved academic certificate program; attendance at the
university; completion of a package of courses and experiences; recognition of
achievement
All certificates of similar type must use similar wording
Only Senate-approved certificate programs may use the phrase
"certificate program" as part of their official title
Only Senate-approved certificate programs may use the words "San
Francisco State University awards a certificate.…" All other
certificates must stipulate the name of a college, department, office, etc.
Wording for all certificate "pieces of paper" in all three
categories must be approved by the Office of Academic Affairs
The three categories of SFSU certificates:
Certificates for completion of university-approved, academic credit-bearing,
undergraduate, graduate, and extended learning "certificate
programs"
Certificates for completion of CEL-approved programs and course offerings
which do not fall under the Academic Senate certificate policy
Congratulatory certificates for achievement, appreciation, award, honor, or
recognition
I. Certificates for completion of university-approved, academic
credit-bearing, undergraduate, graduate, and extended learning certificate
programs
These, at present, include only the Senate-approved certificate programs
listed below:
- Athletic Coaching (Undergraduate)
- Biotechnology (Undergraduate)
- Conflict Resolution (Undergraduate and Extended Learning)
- Cooperative Education (Undergraduate)
- Counseling Deaf Persons (Graduate)
- Counseling Deafened and Hard of Hearing Persons (Graduate)
- Dietetics: Focus on Older Adults (Graduate)
- Early Childhood Special Education (Graduate)
- Educational Therapy (Graduate)
- Entrepreneurial Leadership in Health Care (Graduate)
- Family Nurse Practitioner (Graduate and Extended Learning))
- Genetic Engineering (Graduate)
- Holistic Health (Undergraduate and Extended Learning)
- Hospitality Management (Extended Learning)
- Independent Living Center Practices (Undergraduate and Graduate)
- Information Technology Auditing (Extended Learning)
- Integrated Services (Graduate)
- Interdisciplinary Digital Arts (Undergraduate)
- International Business (Extended Learning)
- Jewish Community Studies (Graduate)
- Legal/Court Interpretation (Extended Learning)
- Legal Nurse Consultant (Extended Learning)
- Meteorology for Broadcasters (Undergraduate)
- Middle/Junior High School Studies (Graduate)
- Music/Recording Industry (Extended Learning)
- Paralegal Studies (Extended Learning)
- Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Undergrad. and Extended
Learning)
- Rehabilitation Counseling (Graduate)
- Rehabilitation Engineering Technology (Graduate)
- Teaching Critical Thinking (Graduate)
- Teaching of Composition (Graduate)
- Teaching Post-Secondary Reading (Graduate)
- Technical and Professional Writing (Undergraduate)
- Training Systems Development (Graduate)
- Vocational Special Education (Graduate)
- Youth and Human Services Non-profit Agency Administration (Undergrad.)
Guiding Principles/Issues:
- Certificate program guidelines may be found in the following:
- Academic Senate Policy F80-63, "Procedures for Submitting Proposals
for New Options, Certificate Programs, Concentrations, Special Emphases,
and Minors"
- Academic Senate Policies S82-88 and S87-88, "Certificate Program
Guidelines" [For the latter, see
http://www.sfsu.edu/~senate/S87-88.htm
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Administrative Guidelines for the Preparation of Undergraduate,
Graduate, and Extended Education Certificate Programs: http://www.sfsu.edu/~academic/aaguide.htm
All CEL certificate awards will have to be standardized and made
consistent in wording and format with undergraduate and graduate
certificates
II. Certificates for completion of College of Extended Learning approved
course/program offerings which do not fall under the Academic Senate certificate
policy guidelines
The College of Extended Learning is authorized to offer courses/programs
which may provide academic credit, continuing education units, or neither credit
nor CEUs. A number of these course/program offerings include the awarding of a
certificate of completion.
A. Continuing Education Unit [CEU] course offerings:
The College of Extended Learning awards certificates for completion of such
CEU-bearing course packages as:
- AutoCAD Training
- Client/Server Technology
- Clinical Laboratory Scientist Continuing Education
- English for Professional Purposes
- Executive Leadership
- Geographic Information Systems
- Human Resource Management
- Information Technology
- Phlebotomist Certification
- Professional Meeting Planning
- Multimedia Studies
- Substance Abuse Assessment and Treatment
- UNIX System/C/C++ Programming
- Wedding Consultation
Guiding Principles/Issues:
- The university’s extended learning activities are subject to Academic
Senate Policy S81-71, "Continuing Education Policy and Procedures"
- The awarding of CEUs is governed by Academic Senate Policy S77-20,
"Policy on Continuing Education Units"
- All CEL certificates awarded for the completion of CEU-bearing course
packages will have to be standardized and made consistent in wording and
format
B. Non-credit, non-CEU seminars, workshops, and traineeships:
Included here are:
- Various non-credit, non-CEU seminars, workshops, and traineeships, and
other programs offered by the College of Extended Learning
- Non-credit, non-CEU, self-supporting, "instructional" programs
offered by any college or department of the university under the aegis of
CEL, including the intensive program of study in English offered by the
American Language Institute
Guiding Principles/Issues:
- The College of Extended Learning should oversee the offering of ALL
non-credit, non-CEU, self-supporting, instructional programs (see
endnote)
- CEL oversight should include review of budgets and maintenance of
records of student participation
- The College of Extended Learning should oversee the awarding of any and
all certificates of completion in this area, after review and approval by
the Office of Academic Affairs
- Any certificate awarded for completion of an
"instructionally-related" program offered through a university
auxiliary must bear the name of the auxiliary and not that of the
university (see endnote)
C. Academic credit-bearing course offerings provided for cohort groups:
Credit-bearing course offerings [including either pre-determined or
individually-tailored "packages" of coursework] which are provided to
cohorts of students through CEL’s Open University include the following:
- College of Business course of study for cohort groups of Japanese students
in China who take courses at SFSU
- College of Business course of study for cohort groups of students from the
University of Oslo who take courses at SFSU
- Office of International Programs course of study for cohort groups of
managers from Guangdong Province in China who take courses at SFSU
Guiding principles/Issues:
- The College of Extended Learning should oversee the offering of ALL
credit-bearing packages of coursework provided to non-degree,
non-credential, cohorts of students
- The College of Extended Learning should oversee the awarding of any and
all certificates of completion in this area
- Certificates of completion awarded to cohorts of students are NOT for the
completion of a Senate-approved academic program but for attendance at the
university or, at the very most, for the completion of a set of specified
courses
- Congratulatory certificates for achievement, appreciation, award, honor,
or recognition
Typically, these certificates are given to individuals who are:
- Graduating from a degree, credential, or internship program
- Graduating from the university as an international student or a member of
another student group
- Awarded a prize, scholarship, or fellowship
- Accepted into an honor society
- Accepted into or completing an exchange program or a program abroad
- Recognized for academic achievement or service
- Completing a departmental student teaching requirement
- Completing a period of volunteer service to the university
Examples of such certificates include:
- Certificates of completion of various degree programs [e.g., the
Geography, Political Science, International Relations, and other degree
programs]
- Certificates of completion of the single and multiple subject credential
programs
- Certificates of completion of the 30-unit Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Internship Program offered by the Center for Biomedical Laboratory Science
- Presidential scholar certificate
- Phi Beta Kappa certificate
- Certificate for acceptance into one of the CSU international programs
- Certificate for acceptance into one of the SFSU bilateral exchange
programs
- Various Creative Arts awards
- Communicative Disorders examination certificate
- Distinguished graduate student awards
- Certificate for completing student teaching in the Mild/Moderate
Disabilities Program
- Certificate of recognition of "academic accomplishments" [aka
"graduation"] of international students
- Certificates awarded by the Office of International Programs to cohorts of
Russian entrepreneurs who complete a non-credit Community Connections
Program with San Francisco businesses
Guiding Principles/Issues:
- All Category III certificates should be reviewed for appropriate wording
by the Office of Academic Affairs
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Endnote
Although this report focuses its attention only on courses and programs
offered by the university itself, it is recognized that, in certain instances, a
university auxiliary may administer "instructionally-related" programs
[e.g., workshops, conferences, and institutes]. It should be noted, however,
that system policy requires a formalized review process to determine which
programs are deemed to be self-supporting "instructional" programs
[always offered through CEL] and which are deemed to be
"instructionally-related" programs [possibly offered through an
auxiliary]. [See CSU audit report entitled "Continuing Education/San
Francisco State University/Report No. 99-16.]
In compliance with the CSU audit report, the provost issued a memorandum to
all college deans on June 28, 2000 ["Addendum and Clarification to my
Memorandum of February 17, 2000 Regarding Self Support Instructional
Programs"]. Key paragraphs from this memorandum are quoted in their
entirety:
"In accordance with a major recommendation from
the CSU audit of the College of Extended Learning conduced in 1999, all campus
sponsored, self-support instructional programs must be operated under the
supervision of the College of Extended Learning.
DEFINITION OF CAMPUS SPONSORED SELF-SUPPORTING INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS WHICH
MUST BE MANAGED BY CEL:
A self-support instructional program is any class, seminar, laboratory,
workshop, field trip, independent study, directed study, training session or
other format for instruction which:
- Is funded by non-general fund sources
- Bears the SFSU name as the program sponsor
- Includes teachers and learners
- Charges an approved university fee
- Delivers university-approved instruction
- Requires that a permanent university record be maintained
This definition allows departments and colleges to seek SFSU Foundation
sponsorship for scholarly, scientific or other conferences and workshops
which do not meet the criteria listed above."
Any certificate awarded for completion of an instructionally-related program
offered through an auxiliary must bear the name of the auxiliary and not that of
the university. This is in compliance with CSU Executive Order 794 dated
November 12, 2001 ["Financial Management of Extended Education"] which
states: "Self-supporting, instructionally related programs and activities
conducted by CSU auxiliary organizations shall not use the California State
University name or representation in any manner."
It should also be noted that the three categories of certificates have been
established for the sole purpose of organizing, systematizing, and standardizing
current and prospective activities that may involve the awarding of
certificates. Neither the categories nor any other aspect of this document
addresses the issue of or implies any determination regarding the placement of
funds in any particular fund account or sub-account.
February 2002
