Join President Timur at the Provost's Seminar Series | | |
The Provost's Seminar Series continues Thursday, January 15, 2026, with President Timur's talk entitled "Your University." This is a unique opportunity for students and the Eagle community to hear President Timur highlight FGCU’s 28-year journey from idea to impact, showcasing its growing influence on Southwest Florida and how we can continue to expand and meet community, workforce, and student needs.
Event details:
The Provost's Seminar Series provides unique opportunities for students and the Eagle community to meet and learn from experts with remarkable careers and subject-matter expertise. We invite the entire Eagle community to attend this exciting seminar.
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Canvas Quicktip 9:
SpeedGrader Studio Capture
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Using the SpeedGrader Studio Capture feature in Canvas to provide audio or video feedback offers a more personal, engaging, and effective way to communicate with students.
Unlike text comments, recorded feedback conveys tone, emotion, and nuance to help students better understand instructors’ intentions. It also strengthens instructor presence, fostering connection and support, especially in online and hybrid courses.
Studio Capture can save time by allowing instructors to speak naturally rather than type lengthy comments. Because it’s fully integrated and secure within Canvas, it provides a seamless, accessible way to deliver richer, more meaningful feedback that encourages students to reflect and apply what they learn.
Learn to use the Studio Capture feature: How do I record a webcam video, screen capture, or audio recording as a feedback comment in SpeedGrader?
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Check out past editions of the Academic Affairs newsletter: Academic Affairs Events
Questions? Email us: academicaffairs@fgcu.edu.
| | Have you seen a faculty member or academic team exhibiting academic excellence and going the extra mile for student success? Let us know! Click here to submit your story. | | |
Community Partner Announcement:
Lee Health’s 2026 Community Health Survey
A key component of Lee Health's 2026 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA), Lee Health's 2026 Community Health Survey will be open January 6 through March 3. It is a brief, primarily digital survey designed to gather direct community input on health needs, barriers to care, and local priorities.
| | Community feedback is critical to ensuring the CHNA accurately reflects lived experiences and helps guide future programs, services, and investments across our region. Please, scan the QR code or use this link to participate. | |
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Career Advancement Assistance Program
The Office of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce the Career Advancement Assistance Program. The purpose of the Career Advancement Assistance Program is to provide time for faculty members to engage meaningfully in activities that yield outputs and impacts enhancing FGCU’s scholarly impact and timely promotion of faculty members.
- Faculty categories included in this initiative are those on the professor and instructor tracks. The Career Advancement Assistance Program partially relieves teaching obligations to provide time for scholarly, research, or career development endeavors. During the Career Advancement Assistance Program, faculty teaching load and/or other assignments will be reduced, and no overload teaching will be permitted.
- The number of awards is contingent on the availability of funding through the Provost’s office.
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The deadline for the Fall 2026 Career Advancement semester is Monday, February 16, 2026. Please submit your application in its entirety to Julie Leyden (jleyden@fgcu.edu).
Access the application cover page and detailed information about the program here:
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The Lucas Center Symposium on Teaching & Learning
A Celebration of Passionate Teaching
Tuesday, February 17 & Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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You’re invited to join us for this year’s Lucas Center Symposium on Teaching & Learning, a two-day celebration of the dedication and care that educators bring to their classrooms every day.
This year’s Symposium shines a spotlight on the tremendous time, effort, and emotional energy invested in teaching and in cultivating meaningful relationships with students. Together, we’ll honor the work that makes transformational learning possible at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Through two days of interactive sessions, engaging presentations, and collaborative conversations, you will discover effective, easy-to-replicate, and low-cost strategies that promote student success. Sessions will feature teaching demonstrations, panel and roundtable discussions, and explorations of current research and innovative practices in higher education.
We hope you’ll join us in learning, connecting, reflecting and celebrating passionate teaching.
The Symposium is open to all FGCU community members; click here to register.
If for any reason the above hyperlink does not work, please use the following direct link: https://fgcu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3TMQwhw9dZBZ77M
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Apply for Grant-in-Aid Program!
🎓📚The application is open now 📚🎓
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FGCU is offering awards for the 2026-2027 academic year to support employees in advancing their education!
Whether you're a Support Personnel (SP), Administrative/Professional (AP), or Faculty member, this is your chance to take your learning to the next level.
🔹 Award Options: Full-time leave for one semester or Part-time leave for two semesters.
🔹 Eligibility: Open to Support Personnel (SP), Administrative/Professional (AP), and Faculty. Doctoral-level applicants must show satisfactory progress toward their degree.
🔹 Deadline to Apply: Tuesday, March 10, 2026, by 5:00 p.m.
🎯 How to Apply: Submit your application before the deadline to be considered for this incredible opportunity.
🔹 Read more about Grant-in-Aid and apply here:
🔗 https://www.fgcu.edu/ombuds/grantinaid#
Don't miss out on this opportunity to invest in your future! Apply now here.
| | Dendritic Institute for Human-Centered AI and Data Science | | FGCU AI-Awareness & Readiness Survey | | |
A key action within FGCU’s AI-Aware Initiative to assess campus-wide perceptions, use cases, training needs, and readiness for AI integration.
Participation from faculty, staff, and students is essential to guide next steps in governance, training, and resource planning. (Scan the QR code to take the survey.)
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NIH Biosketch Updates
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Notice OD-26-018 requires updated NIH biosketches for applications due on or after January 25, 2026. Applicants are required to use SciENcv (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/) to populate their biosketch. If the updated form is not used, there will be an error generated which will need to be fixed prior to acceptance of the application. The general instructions are as follows:
NIH will require the use of SciENcv to complete Common Forms (i.e., Biographical Sketch, Current and Pending (Other) Support) and the NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement to produce digitally certified PDF(s).
- All individuals required to submit one of the above documents to NIH must:
- Obtain an Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID iD).
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Link their ORCID iD to their eRA Commons account. For information on linking an ORCID iD to the eRA Commons account see the ORCID iD topic in the eRA Commons online help.
- Confirm their ORCID iD is displayed in the Persistent Identifier (PID) section of the Common Forms.
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NIH will require certification from each individual (not their delegate) of their own form(s) in SciENcv acknowledging information is: 1) current, accurate, and complete and 2) at time of submission, they are not a party to a malign foreign talent recruitment program.
*Please reach out to ORSP PreAward early to ensure that your biosketch complies with the new notice.*
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Required Training for NSF Submissions
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has required training starting December 2, 2025. The new requirements set forth in NSF Important Notice No. 149 will take effect.
What you need to know:
- Proposals submitted before December 2, 2025, including those submitted during the recent lapse in appropriations, are not subject to those requirements originally set to take effect on October 10, 2025.
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As of December 2, 2025, such new certifications are required at the time of proposal submission within the Cover Sheet, Biographical Sketch, and Current and Pending (Other) Support forms. These include new certifications related to:
o Completion of research security training by all senior/key personnel; and
o An institution of higher education’s status regarding contracts or agreements with any Confucius Institute.
- Organizations are required to provide supporting documentation, including copies of grants, contracts, and agreements, upon request by NSF.
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You are instructed to take this course, download and save your completion certificate and provide it to ORSP_preaward@fgcu.edu. This certificate must be uploaded with your proposal to NSF.
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To assist research organizations and investigators, NSF has published a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) web page summarizing the new requirements, certification procedures, and relevant timelines. Access the FAQs here.
Training can be done using the following link and takes 45-60 minutes: https://www.secure-center.org/ctm.
If you have questions, please reach out to ORSP.
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Application Deadlines
There are posted deadlines for ORSP applications. For time-sensitive opportunities, ORSP will attempt to accommodate requests but cannot guarantee submission unless the following are met:
For FGCU to meet sponsor requirements and provide added value to each proposal, the following standard internal deadlines have been established for electronic and paper submissions (these lead times do not include time required by the relevant unit(s) for their review/approval):
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Five (5) business days (days when FGCU business operations are open) prior to submission deadline: The final complete budget, additional administrative materials, and draft narrative are due to ORSP.
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Fourteen (14) business days are required for subrecipient documentation when FGCU is the prime for the proposal.
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Two (2) business days prior to submission deadline: The final complete proposal is due to ORSP, including the final proposal narrative. Final changes between the two deadlines are limited to tweaking of the narrative that has no impact upon the budget and other administrative documents.
The deadlines are in place so that last minute errors/warnings can be addressed in advance of the sponsor’s deadlines. If error/warnings are received close to the sponsor deadline and cannot be adjusted, applications may not be submitted if we are not able to remedy the issue(s).
More information can be found at:
https://www.fgcu.edu/academics/research/files/orsp-deadlines.pdf
| FGCU Institutional Review Board (IRB) Announcement | | |
In accordance with the IRB regulations and FGCU IRB Guidelines, IRB approval must be obtained BEFORE any research projects involving human subjects may proceed. The Board cannot retroactively approve the collection of data which falls under our definition of research. However, the regulations recognize that there are instances where data are collected without the intention to conduct human subject research.
To approve the use of these data, the IRB will evaluate the data collection process to ensure it meets the same ethical and regulatory standards required for any research involving human subjects, including the requirement for informed consent. If the IRB determines that the data were not collected in accordance with these standards, the Board will NOT approve the use of these data.
The IRB’s role is to provide ethical and regulatory oversight for research involving human participants, safeguarding their rights and welfare while also supporting the integrity of the research, the research team members, and the interests of the University.
For detailed guidance on conducting research with human subjects, please refer to the FGCU IRB guidelines or contact the IRB office.
Questions? Please email Sherry Alexander at sralexander@fgcu.edu.
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The Lucas Center Symposium on Teaching & Learning A Celebration of Passionate Teaching. Tuesday, February 17 & Wednesday, February 18, 2026
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| | FGCU's Office of the Ombuds is here to assist faculty, staff, and students! Employees who may be experiencing a university-related concern or conflict are encouraged to reach out to the Ombuds Office as an informal and confidential resource | Visit the Ombuds’ webpage for more information. | | |
Bower School of Music & the Arts
TODAY! US Air Force Concert Band performance
Monday, January 12 at 7:30 p.m.
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U. Tobe Recital Hall, Music Building, FGCU Campus
This concert is free and open to the public
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University Library
Scholar Series: January 28, 2026
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