Faculty Information

The Skills Advantage Faculty Cohort

• For full time faculty in any program

• One semester (Fall or Spring), seven sessions

• Compensated

• Skills-forward pedagogy – best practices for teaching transferable skills

• Understand FGCU’s transferable skill badges

• Create 1 new assignment and modify 1 existing assignment

• Require assignment in a future course

• Click here to indicate your interest in a future cohort.

PAGES Faculty Cohort

For full time faculty in humanities & social science fields: English, Philosophy, Communication, Journalism, Art, Theatre, Music (BA), History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science, or Integrated Studies.

• One year (Fall & Spring), 7 sessions per term

• Compensated

• Fall term identical to Skills Advantage Faculty Cohort – assignment design, skills pedagogy

• Spring term covers liberal arts career education and career trends

• Spring activities: reading group, job trend data, career activities & assignments  

• Watch for an email from Dr. Whitehouse in Spring to apply for next year’s cohort

Badging Assignment Self-Training Course

Want to get started with badging right away? This course is for you!

• Provides the training needed to embed a badge-able assignment in your course.

• Includes badging instructions and other materials for your students

• Badge requirements, badge process, materials for your students

• To be invited to the course, please email The Skills Advantage

BadgeIt! Workshops

For faculty who are modifying an existing assignment to make it badge-able

• For full or part time faculty or offices that are directly involved with student workers/student life.

• Add a badging component to an existing assignment

• Participants complete the Badging Assignment Self Training course first

• Submit draft of assignment to peers before workshop

• One workshop session: Edit assignments to make them badge-ready.

• Click here for more information and to indicate interest in a workshop.