About CPE courses - Continuing & Professional Education

Whatever purpose brings you through our doors, we can help you fulfill it. Continuing & Professional Education has served the Chattahoochee Valley for more than fifty years—non-credit certificates and exam preparation, English language study, youth programs, personal enrichment, and testing services, all from Columbus State University.

Who we are

We are Columbus State University’s front door for learning beyond the degree. CSU students add industry credentials to what they are already learning in the classroom. Working adults build the next skill their careers require. International students begin academic life in our English Language Institute. Employers train whole teams. And sometimes a child’s first experience of Columbus State is a summer camp that makes a university campus feel like a place they belong.

Some learning pays off in a paycheck. Some is its own reward. All of it belongs to the learner forever—that is what Learning that Works means to us.

The Activ8 summer staff—CPE staff and student employees—gathered at orientation

What we do

Professional education & credentials—PMP® and CAPM® exam preparation as a PMI Authorized Training Provider, CompTIA, NASM, real estate, healthcare, and more
English Language Institute—intensive English, the Bridge pathway into university study, and community evening courses
Youth programs—Activ8 summer camps, the Dance Preparatory Academy, and the JROTC STEM Leadership Academy
Personal enrichment—affordable classes for adults trying something new, a mile from home
CSU Testing Center—nationally certified exam services for students, professionals, and the region’s public-safety hiring pipeline
Custom & employer training—programs built around an organization’s talent pipeline, on campus, online, or on site

Meet our team

Our team is not large, but the work is—and CPE staff, instructors, student employees, faculty partners, and colleagues across CSU carry it together.

The CPE team celebrating the holidays together at the Elizabeth Bradley Turner Center

Shanina Guyton, SFC, USA (Retired), M.Ed.

Student Success Manager

Advising and coaching · professional education and personal enrichment · Army Credentialing Assistance and MyCAA · student assistant supervision and training

M.Ed., Higher Education Leadership

guyton_shanina@columbusstate.edu