To renew your three-year Certified Control Systems Technician^® (CCST^®) certification, select one of the following options:

Option 1: Recertify by Meeting Requirements

1. Agree to commit to the ISA Code of Conduct; and
2. Have accumulated least a total of 90​ Professional Development Points (PDPs) over the last three years (if you work more than 1,500 hours per year, you earn 30 PDPs); and
3. Acknowledge that you are subject to a random verification audit and will fully agree to provide the supporting documents that prove your qualifications.

If you can self-certify that you meet and can document the above-described accumulation of PDPs, click the button below to agree to the terms and pay your recertification fee. (Note, this will add the recertification fee to your cart.)

Within five business days after making your payment, you will receive an email from isa_badges@isa.org that allows you to access your digital badge, and your status will be updated and displayed in the ISA Credential Directory, if you have set the appropriate permissions.

Pay Recertification by Meeting Requirements Fee

Option 2: Recertify by Exam

If you cannot meet the appropriate number of PDPs but still want to recertify, then you may recertify by exam. (Note, selecting this option will add the exam registration fee to your cart.) Within three business days of paying the exam fee, you will receive a Notice to Schedule examination email from candidatesupport@scantron.com. that contains information on how to schedule and take your exam with Scantron at a testing center or online.

Pay Recertification by exam Fee

Along with this recognition, the UNG Gainesville Campus received a $25,000 grant to increase support for adult learners. The grant was subsequently renewed in 2012 for an additional $25,000. The intent of the grant was “to galvanize [adult Georgians] to change their situation, thereby boosting the state’s economic growth” (University System of Georgia). 

As part of this same initiative, in March 2011, the University System of Georgia’s Office of Military Outreach awarded the UNG Gainesville Campus the Soldiers to Scholars grant enabling the university to better serve military personnel in its service area. With the ALC grant funds, institutional funds, and faculty/staff support, the University of North Georgia has continued to grow its support for veterans and adult learner students.  

With a growing number of both student veterans and adult learners, UNG created the Center for Adult Learners & Military (CALM) in 2012 in an effort to better serve these non-traditional student populations. CALM was renamed in January 2017 to Veteran & Adult Learner Programs (VALP). 

In August 2020, VALP and Orientation and Transitions Program (OTP) merged to form a new department:  Nighthawk Engagement and Student Transitions (NEST). This merger has increased the number of dedicated staff trained to serve Veterans and Adult Learners. NEST is now able to provide a dedicated team of staff members for Veterans and a dedicated team for Adult Learners. Having specific staff dedicated to each of these programs allows NEST to continue all previous VALP programs with an addition of new programs better geared toward each specific population. These programs will help Veterans and Adult Learners connect, prepare, and navigate their college career. 

NEST is the point-of-contact concierge for the Veteran and Adult Learners and provides advisement as requested, ACE transcript reviews, portfolio counseling, career advisement, and mentoring. NEST also works with faculty and staff by providing them training opportunities concerning Veteran and Adult Learners. 

Yes. Courses must be taken together as a full set of associated courses.  However, learning communities leave room for you to take additional classes. You'll select these classes when you meet with your academic advisor during your SLU 101 visit. If you have prior credit for a course or the course does not fit your major academic course plan, you can request an exemption from a learning community course. There are four general reasons that a learning community student may be excused from one or more of their learning community courses. 

1) The student has prior credit; advanced placement/dual enrollment/transfer credit.
2) The student has not met a prerequisite for the learning community course.
3) The learning community course conflicts with a requirement for their major; including a course sequence issue (please note: all other learning community course options and scheduling options must be exhausted before an exemption is given to the student).
4) The student is a student-athlete; in the Billiken Success Program; or in the INTO program and has a programming conflict.

School models are, for the most part, outdated–and very overdue for replacement. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students who do successfully navigate their schooling emerge with only a specific (and often narrow) skillset that may or may not match their strengths or interests.

Conventional schooling often leaves students disillusioned, questioning their intelligence and value as it is framed by a system that needs an overhaul.

Learner-centered education can play a critical role in reshaping education systems, offering a more holistic approach to meeting learners’ needs and helping students find fulfillment in their academic accomplishments.

K-12 Value Networks: The Hidden Forces That Help or Hinder Learner-Centered Education, a report from the Clayton Christensen Institute and authored by CCI senior research fellow Thomas Arnett, offers insight into understanding why schools struggle to change their instructional models, along with tips to establish and support learner-centered education models.

Program leaders, sponsors, learners and their families, staff, community partners, and funders are all critical to the success of these learner-centered education models.

The report describes how five different learner-centered education models–The Met, Virtual Learning Academy Charter School, Iowa BIG, Village High School, and Embark Education–were able to launch and grow their models by assembling value networks congruent with their vision for learner-centered education.

1. The Met: The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, known as The Met, is a network of six small, public high schools located in Providence and Newport, Rhode Island. The hallmark of The Met’s learner-centered model is that its learners go out in their communities for two days out of the week to lead real-world projects as interns for partner organizations. For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio.

When learners join the Met, they and their families work with an advisor to identify their strengths, needs, and interests, and then develop an individualized learning plan with an internship as its centerpiece. Learners are responsible for researching potential internship opportunities and communicating with partner sites to arrange their internships. Advisors coach them as they do their research and outreach to ensure that internships match their needs and interests.

2. Virtual Learning Academy Charter School: The Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a statewide virtual school created in 2007 that serves K–12 learners throughout New Hampshire. The concept for the school came from the superintendent of the Exeter Region Cooperative School District, who saw an opportunity to take advantage of a new charter school law to apply for a statewide charter. Rather than create another conventional school, however, the superintendent recognized the distinctive value of using a virtual school model to offer a wide array of flexible, part-time and full-time learning options unavailable through brick-and-mortar campuses.

VLACS’s competency-based model is highly adaptable to learners’ needs and interests. It offers a range of options for learners to earn credits: through online courses, learner-designed projects, and out-of-school learning experiences such as internships and travel. Learners who take online courses move through those courses at their own pace and earn credit whenever they’re able to demonstrate mastery of designated competencies. For projects and other learning experiences, VLACS aligns these experiences with state learning standards and then measures learners’ mastery of standards using performance-based assessments.

Related:
What data tells us about student-centered learning
5 ways peer networks lead to better student support systems

To renew your three-year Certified Control Systems Technician^® (CCST^®) Specialis certification, select one of the following options:

Option 1: Recertify by Meeting Requirements

1. Agree to commit to the ISA Code of Conduct; and
2. Have accumulated least a total of 90​ Professional Development Points (PDPs) over the last three years (if you work more than 1,500 hours per year, you earn 30 PDPs); and
3. Acknowledge that you are subject to a random verification audit and will fully agree to provide the supporting documents that prove your qualifications.

If you can self-certify that you meet and can document the above-described accumulation of PDPs, click the button below to agree to the terms and pay your recertification fee. (Note, this will add the recertification fee to your cart.)

Within five business days after making your payment, you will receive an email from isa_badges@isa.org that allows you to access your digital badge, and your status will be updated and displayed in the ISA Credential Directory, if you have set the appropriate permissions.

Pay Recertification by Meeting Requirements Fee

Option 2: Recertify by Exam

If you cannot meet the appropriate number of PDPs but still want to recertify, then you may recertify by exam. (Note, selecting this option will add the exam registration fee to your cart.) Within three business days of paying the exam fee, you will receive a Notice to Schedule examination email from candidatesupport@scantron.com. that contains information on how to schedule and take your exam with Scantron at a testing center or online.

Pay Recertification by exam Fee