What ti Know:

1. The requirements for renewal of an Administrative Certificate are different from those needed for Administrative Certificate application.  If you need to apply for your Administrative, please return to www.oakland.edu/sehs/certrenewal and click on the “Applying for the Administrative Certificate” link.
   
2. To renew your Administrative Certificate, you need to have completed:
   
   1. 6 semester credit hours of appropriate coursework from an accredited Michigan higher education institution (including accredited community colleges),
      
   2. 6 semester credit hours of appropriate coursework from an out-of-state university that has a state-approved teacher preparation program,
      
   3. 18 State Board – Continuing Education Units (SB-CEUs), or
      
   4. a combination of semester credit hours of appropriate coursework and SB-CEUs.  Six semester credit hours are equivalent to 18 SB-CEUs.  Three SB-CEUs are equivalent to one semester credit hour.
      
3. The credits and/or SB-CEUs you use to renew your Administrative must not be more than 5 years old.
   
4. Oakland University’s Office of Professional Development (www.oakland.edu/pd) offers many courses for Administrative Certificate renewal.
   
5. Once you have completed the requirements to renew your Administrative Certificate (all grades must be posted),
   
   1. go to www.michigan.gov/moecs to apply for your new certificate, and
      
   2. send your completed Record for Continuing Education Credits for School Administrators form via fax (248-370-4245), e-mail PDF attachment (dillard@oakland.edu), or mail (address listed below).
   3. Your application will be processed within 8 weeks from the date you submitted it on MOECS.
      
6. If any of the credits needed to renew your Administrative were completed at another institution, you will need to drop off an official transcript in a signed, sealed envelope or mail it to: