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The School of Professional Studies at Columbia University offers fourteen master's degrees, courses for advancement and graduate school preparation, certificate programs, summer courses, high school programs in New York and abroad, and a program for learning English as a second language. Though the offerings are diverse, the programs are unified by a mission to mount innovative instructional programs unavailable elsewhere at the University that meet Columbia’s standard of excellence, take good advantage of its resources, and produce positive educational outcomes for the members of the diverse student body. ==History== Since 1995, Columbia’s School of Professional Studies has been administering and developing innovative programs that fill a diversity of student needs. Originally called the Division of Special Programs, Professional Studies began with several nondegree programs, one overseas program, the Summer Session, Summer High School Programs, the American Language Program, and a few inter-institution arrangements. Over the next five years, the Division expanded steadily, launching a series of new programs aimed at postgraduate students who needed to prepare for graduate school or career advancement and at undergraduates who wanted to study overseas for a semester, year, or over the summer. In 2002, the University’s Board of Trustees granted final approval for the creation of the School of Continuing Education, the first new school at Columbia in 50 years. With this new status, the School became both a Faculty and a Department of Instruction in the Arts and Sciences, and was granted authority to confer the master of science degree. Since 2002, the School underwent remarkable growth. Today the School administers fourteen professional master’s degree programs, postbaccalaureate study in over 50 subject areas, the Summer Sessions, the American Language Program, and Summer High School Programs. Its founding dean, Frank Wolf, presided over the transformation of the division into a degree-granting school, and had put in place eight applied masters programs when he retired from the University in 2006 to become Director of the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship. On November 12, 2015, Dean Jason Wingard announced that the School of Continuing Education was officially renamed the School of Professional Studies.〔http://sps.columbia.edu/press-releases/columbia-university-school-of-continuing-education-renamed-school-of-professional-studies〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Columbia School of Professional Studies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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