The Faculty Center Badging Program assists faculty with documenting professional growth in teaching, research, scholarship, and leadership development.
Nine (9) badge tracks with six (6) training levels each allow faculty to show breadth of training across topics. Action Plans and Capstone Reflections allow faculty to show evidence of and showcase commitment to professional growth.
New!
We are glad to announce that starting September 1, 2025, we’re launching two brand-new badges to our Badge Track Program:
Teaching with Artificial Intelligence (TAI)
Accessible and Affordable Learning (AAL)
These badges are designed to help faculty grow their expertise, showcase their innovation, and take charge of their professional development narrative. Earning badges is more than training – it’s a way to highlight your commitment to teaching excellence and student success.
Track your progress, tell your story, and thrive with Faculty Center Badges!!
Badge Tracks
Descriptions for badge tracks can be read by clicking on a badge track in the following list.
The Accessible and Affordable Learning badge helps faculty design courses that remove barriers to student success while lowering costs. Faculty will learn strategies for creating and maintaining accessible course materials, applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, and leveraging open resources and other affordable content options. By completing this badge, faculty will gain practical tools to ensure their courses meet USG accessibility requirements, and offer accessible and affordable learning for stronger student achievement, engagement, and success.
Workshops in the EBT track will assist faculty with evidence based teaching practive for a better learning experience and greater student engagement.
Workshops in the HIPs badge track will assist faculty in exploring, designing and implementing High-Impact Practices (HIPs). HIPs are active learning practices that result in deep learning by promoting student engagement. High Impact Practices include: First-Year Seminars and Experiences, Common Intellectual Experiences, Learning Communities, Writing-Intensive Courses, Collaborative Assignments and Projects, Undergraduate Research, Diversity/Global Learning, ePortfolios, Service Learning, Community Based Learning, Internships and Capstone Courses and Projects.
Workshops in the MMA badge track will assist faculty in building knowledge and skills necessary to conduct program or course-level assessment of student learning with a emphasis on designing processes that are manageable for participating faculty and that yield meaningful data to inform decisions about teaching, curriculum, and student success.
- Analyze, interpret, and utilize assessment data to make targeted improvements to teaching and curriculum in support of student learning goals.
- Defind learning outcomes and expectations for students in your academic program or course.
- Design and implement assessment methods to reack student learning outcomes achievement
The MSC track will assist faculty in building knowledge of and skills in Scholarly Communications. Workshops will cover topics throughout the research and publication lifecycle: author identifiers and scholarly profiles; journal quality and impact; author metrics and impact; researchers’ rights as authors and the role of the University’s institutional repository, Digital Commons; and data management planning and curation services.
Workshops in the PGL track will assist faculty with their professional growth related to career development and maintaining appropriate well-being. Career development will include topics such as preparing documentation for annual reviews, tenure and promotion and leadership development. Work/life balance and self-care topics such as emotional, psychological, and social well-being may be addressed.
Workshops in the RGS track will assist faculty and staff in the acquisition, performance, and administration of projects and programs funded by external sources through research administration, research integrity and compliance, award management, public service, instruction, and other scholarly activities.
The Teaching with AI badge supports faculty in exploring and integrating artificial intelligence tools into their teaching practice. Participants will gain hands-on experience with AI technologies, learn strategies to enhance course design, student engagement, and assessment, and critically evaluate the ethical and pedagogical implications of AI in higher education. This badge empowers faculty to stay ahead of emerging innovations, equipping them to make informed choices about when and how to use AI to support student learning.
Workshops in the TWT track will assist faculty with teaching and learning technologies that can be used in the learning environment.
How to Earn A Badge
- Attend four Workshops in the same badge track
- Complete an Action Plan within one month of each workshop attended
- Complete a Capstone Reflection within one year of workshop completion
- A Badge will be awarded. Badges are being awarded through Smartsheets. Any previous badges can be found at Badgr-Parchment: instructions for accessing your badges
- Repeat this process for additional badge tracks or to “Level Up.”
Badging Process Details
The Faculty Center Badging Program is designed to assist faculty in documenting professional growth in teaching, research, scholarship, and leadership development.
- Register for a Faculty Center workshop on the Workshop Calendar webpage
- After attending the workshop, you will receive an automated email with the following Action Plan prompts:
- Write a 2-3 sentence summary covering the workshop’s highlights and what content was the most informative and useful for you.
- Describe how you will implement a tool, strategy, or idea from today’s workshop in your teaching or professional context.
- After submitting 4 Action Plans in a badge track, you will receive an automated email with the following Capstone Reflection prompts:
- What strategies and/or knowledge gained from this workshop most influenced your approach to teaching?
- Review the action plans you created after attending each workshop for this badge. List implemented ideas and briefly describe the process of implementation.
- Assess the effects of those implemented changes. What was successful? Provide concrete evidence of how student learning improved or benefitted from your changes (student behavior, test scores, feedback received, etc.)
- Explain plans for future growth, implementation, further training, incremental improvements, etc.
The Faculty Center has partnered up with other departments across the university to offer workshops in their fields of expertise.
- Georgia Library Resources and Services for Faculty
- The Office of Institutional Assessment and Accreditation
- The Office of Research
- MomentumU (USG)
- GS HIPs Implementation Team
- Learning Technology Services (LTS)
- Institutional Support and Resouces Center
- No Cost/Low Cost Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Office of Adult and Online Learning
- Schloarly Communications Library Guides
If you have any questions about the badging program or would like to become a partner, please contact the Faculty Center at facultycenter@georgiasouthern.edu.