Stay up-to-date on topics important to your profession. NIU's professional development and training courses are taught by skilled NIU faculty and professionals with real-world experience.
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Professional development and continuing education courses are non-credit, meaning they do not apply towards an academic degree. They do, however, provide appropriate continuing professional education units (CPEs/CEUs).
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For more information, contact Donna Mann at (815) 732-6249 or dmann@niu.edu.
The Illinois Veterans Grant and the Illinois National Guard Grant programs cover tuition and certain fees for eligible students. Charges for non-credit programs offered by NIU-Outreach are not based on university-wide tuition and fee calculations determined by the university and approved by its governing board. The Illinois Veterans Grant and Illinois National Guard Grant do not cover these charges.
If you are currently unemployed and receiving benefits from the Illinois Department of Employment Security, you may qualify for WIA funding for this program. For more information visit www.wia.niu.edu.