Home Degrees & Programs CMU & MI Works! Online Certificate Training Programs
I Am Ready to Work with CMU
Note: Each Michigan Works! Service Center varies in how funds are approved
for training. Be sure to check the Michigan Works! website for your local Service
Center to learn if they have defined steps for you to follow. You can locate your
Service Center at the link below:
Zip Code locater for Michigan Works! Service Centers:
http://michiganworks.org/
General steps to work with Michigan Works!:
- Schedule an appointment to attend
an Orientation at your local Michigan Works! Service Center.
Zip Code locater for
Michigan Works! Service Centers
- Identify an occupation
or occupations for which you are interested in obtaining
training.
- Select an approved training program from the Michigan Consumer Education
Career Report (MI CECR – www.mycareereducation.org )
- Scroll down the list of providers
in the CECR until you get to Central Michigan University. You will see that listings
include a number of CMU off campus locations (e.g. Central Michigan University – Auburn Hills; Central
Michigan University - Troy). Select a CMU Center location within
your Michigan Works! Service Center region.
Note that CMU certificate training programs
are completely online even though you search for programs by CMU off campus locations.
- After you select a training program offered by CMU, go to the drop-down menu
below, locate the program and print the Program Information Sheet for it.
Take the sheet to your Michigan Works! Case Manager to assist in completing
forms to advance your application for training funds.
General steps to work with Central
Michigan University:
- Forms you receive from your Michigan Works! case manager
that are to be completed by the Training Institution may be faxed to
Central Michigan University for completion. Before faxing forms to CMU, complete as much as possible yourself the
Customer or Sponsored Student sections of the form, including the name of the program
in which you wish to enroll. Be sure to include a phone/fax number for you and your
case manager.
- Fax completed forms to CMU to the attention of: CMU Workforce Program at (989)
774-1188. Be sure to include a fax number for CMU to return completed forms. You may also scan
and email your forms to provdev@cmich.edu.
- CMU will complete the Training
Provider sections of the forms and contact you when the forms are completed so you
can return them to your Michigan Works! case manager.
- After you receive notification
from your Michigan Works! case manager that you have been approved for funding please
contact CMU's Workforce Program staff by e-mail at
profdev@cmich.edu, or phone at (800)
950-1144, ext. 7141. When CMU receives authorization for payment from your
Michigan Works! case manager, or you are issued a comp card to use for payment,
CMU will process your registration and enroll you in the program.
- Upon registration, you will receive a welcome e-mail from ed2go.
- You
will have six (6) months to complete the online program, starting from the day you
are registered. You may request a one-time extension from ed2go.
- Upon successful complete of the training, you will receive a certificate of
completion from CMU.