College and Career Counseling Advanced Skills Microcredential

This microcredential program builds on the skills school counselors developed by providing instruction in employment data use and practical application opportunities.

Skills

SUNY Oneonta’s College and Career Counseling Advanced Skills microcredential provides employed city counselors and teachers with the following skills for skill-building instruction and learning:

• Collaboration on Career-Connected Learning in the Curriculum
• Data Literacy
• Career Navigation Skills
• Skills Gap Identification
• Ability to Network with Industry Professionals and Organizations
• Supporting Diversity & Inclusion

Required Courses

• CNED 5240 Using Workforce & Economic Data to Improve Outcomes in High School Counseling (Graduate, 3 credits)
• CNED 5245 Strategies for Facilitating Career Navigation (Graduate, 3 credits)

Competencies

Designed in response to needs identified by the NYC Office of Pathways (within NYC Education Dept), this microcredential provides employed counselors and teachers with skill-building instruction and learning. The first course in the pair comprising the microcredential concentrates on enhancing understanding of employment data; the second course builds additional strategies for using that data effectively in career and college advisement of high-school students.

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• Non-Degree Student
• Current Student

Non-degree student

To be eligible to take courses as a non-degree student for the College and Career Counseling Advanced Skills Microcredential, you must:

• have graduated high school or passed the GED/TASC; or
• have a cumulative average of a 3.0 from the last college attended.

If you have been dismissed from SUNY Oneonta, you are not eligible to take courses as a non-degree student.

Application Steps

All students applying for admission to the program are required to:

1. Submit the online Microcredential Application
2. Submit official transcript(s) from all post-secondary institutions attended
3. Submit a copy of your provisional, permanent, initial, or professional certificate(s) for classroom teaching service or counseling, or a screenshot of your TEACH account showing certification(s), including your full name.

Application Deadlines

• fall term - second Wednesday of August
• spring term - second Wednesday of December

Minimum GPA

You must maintain a 3.0 grade point average to be eligible to continue enrollment.

Code of Conduct

All microcredential and non-degree students are bound by the rules, policies and regulations outlined in SUNY Oneonta's Code of Student Conduct.

Microcredential Application

I'm not ready to apply, but I would like more information

Complete our Request Information form or reach out to us:

Contact Us

Learn more about the Extended and Community Learning Center by emailing excl@oneonta.edu or contacting us at one of our two locations.

SUNY Oneonta Campus location
215 Hunt Union
Phone: 607-436-2548
Fax: (607) 436-2692
Office hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Downtown Oneonta location
4 Dietz St
Phone: 607-436-2831
Office hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Current Student

Current students should contact the Academic Department who oversees this microcredential.