Faculty: Today is the last day to complete mandatory training | | |
Final Reminder - Today is the last day to complete your annual compliance training. The training is mandatory, and faculty had the flexibility to complete the on-demand training between August 8 and October 7 through Workday Learning. The estimated time to complete all the courses is 3 hours.
The training consists of the following courses:
- Get Secure! Cybersecurity Awareness Training
- Active Assailant Annual Training
- Discrimination and Harassment Awareness and Prevention Training
- Reasonable Accommodations and Disability Discrimination
- General Ethics
- FGCU Code of Conduct
- Clery Act Training
- EH&S Annual Training: Slips, Trips, and Falls
Throughout the completion window, chairs and deans will be provided with detailed reports outlining employees’ noncompletion.
FGCU requires all employees to complete compliance training annually.
Questions? Contact the Workday Learning Team.
Becky Broome
Human Resources Generalist and Campus Learning Lead
Jana Sabo
Employee Relations & Employee Development
Nestor Del Valle
Workday Learning
Administrator
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Now Open! Faculty Excellence Award Nominations Due November 21
Dear Eagle Family,
It is the time of year that we are given the opportunity to recognize the excellent work of our adjuncts, advisors, instructors, librarians and professors.
FGCU faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit nominations for the Advising, Librarianship, Scholarship, Service and Teaching Excellence Awards. The Faculty Senate-approved guidelines, which outline the nomination process and characteristics for each award, are available on the Faculty Senate Awards webpage.
All nomination forms must be received by 5 p.m. November 21. Please consider participating in this very important process!
Stay tuned for future announcements about additional award opportunities.
Award winners will be announced at the Celebration of Excellence awards ceremony Wednesday, April 22, 2026, and will be kept confidential until that time. More information on this exciting event will be sent to the university community as we get closer to the date.
Debbie M. Thorne, Ph.D. | Executive Vice President and Provost
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Provost's Seminar Series | Friday, December 5, 2025
Location: Seidler Hall, Room 114
Click the Eagle Link for additional details
| The series kicks off with Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy Research and Innovation Office, University of Minnesota, discussing pandemic preparedness. | | Check out past editions of the Academic Affairs newsletter: Academic Affairs Events | | Have you seen a faculty member or academic team exhibiting academic excellence and going the extra mile for student success? Email us: academicaffairs@fgcu.edu. | | |
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Lucas Center Symposium on Teaching & Learning
A Celebration of Passionate Teaching
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Tuesday, February 17 & Wednesday, February 18, 2026
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sunday, October 26, 2025
This year, we wish to recognize the tremendous time, effort, and emotional energy that is invested in teaching and in cultivating meaningful relationships with students. The symposium serves not only as a space for professional growth but also as a celebration of the dedication and care that educators bring to their classrooms every day.
We invite proposals that explore critical issues, research findings, and practical applications related to teaching and learning in higher education. We hope to highlight effective, easy-to-replicate, and low-cost strategies that promote student success. Session formats may include interactive teaching demonstrations, panel and roundtable discussions, and presentations on the scholarship of teaching and learning.
All FGCU community members are invited to submit proposals that highlight the ways in which their teaching-related activities are contributing to student success. Proposals that focus on practical, student-centered approaches to teaching and learning and that include achievable goals, relevance to the Symposium theme, and clear writing will receive the highest consideration from the review panel. Reviewers will also make every effort to accept proposals from a wide range of disciplines and topic areas to attract participation from across the university. (If you’re interested in submitting a proposal but are unsure if your topic fits the above Call for Proposals, we encourage you to reach out to lucascenter@fgcu.edu to discuss further.)
Call for Proposals open to all FGCU community members until October 26th!
Click here for more information and to submit your proposal!
If for any reason the above hyperlink does not work, please use the following direct link: https://fgcu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_br6UUZuvjtNGRq6
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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 Summer 2026 Career Advancement semester is Monday, November 17, 2025. Summer semester is now available for 12-month AND 9-month faculty. Please see the guidelines for details. For 9-month faculty, if selected, they will receive 25% of their base salary as additional summer pay. No summer teaching will be allowed for those in the program during the summer career advancement semester.
Access the application cover page and detailed information about the program here:
Please submit your application in its entirety to Julie Leyden (jleyden@fgcu.edu).
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Service-Learning & Civic Engagement
CALLING ALL FACULTY! The Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement is looking for full-time and adjunct faculty members to join the FGCU Fall 2025 Cohort for the Service-Learning Faculty Academy.
Service-Learning is excited to announce that applications are open for the Fall 2025 Service-Learning Faculty Academy, a distinguished program with thirty-one active faculty alumni. Through this campus-wide invitation, ten participants will be selected from the pool of applicants. This semi-annual cohort invites both full-time and adjunct faculty who are currently incorporating Service-Learning into their courses—or are interested in doing so—to engage in a collaborative, enriching experience. New this year - we will also be partnering with Career Development Services to offer additional course-integration opportunities!
APPLY TODAY: Fall 2025 Service-Learning Faculty Academy Information coming soon!
The Fall 2025 Cohort will be held November 7, 14, and December 5. Faculty must apply by October 7, 2025.
Participants will receive monetary compensation of $1000 for attending all in-person sessions along with integrating an approved Service-Learning assignment within their course.
Mandatory Meeting Dates:
Fall 2025 Cohort will be held November 7, 14, and December 5
Questions and application materials can be sent to Jamie Wilson, Coordinator of Faculty and Community Partnerships at jawilson@fgcu.edu by November 1st to be considered for the Fall 2024 Service-Learning Academy.
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Digital Learning Online Workshop
Integrating GEN AI In Your Course
| Scan the QR Code to Enroll | |
Digital Learning EDUBITES
Scan the QR Code to register or contact kiconroy@fgcu.edu
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Office of Research and Sponsored Programs 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):
1. A proposal must be initiated in Streamlyne. Streamlyne is FGCU’s internal proposal routing/approval process. Work with ORSP’s pre-award team if you need assistance.
2. Three (3) 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.
2. Ten (10) business days are required for subrecipient documentation when FGCU is the prime for the proposal.
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/#ProposalPreparationPreAward
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October 14, 2025
Gulf Scholars Invitation: Dr. Jack Davis (Pulitzer Prize Author)
Academic Building 9, Room 106, 2:00 PM
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Join Jack E. Davis for his lively long historical view of the Gulf, drawn from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea.
Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Davis starts from the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence and takes his audience on a compelling journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines, and majestic estuarine bays, profoundly beautiful and life-giving.
At the center of his talk is the way people, from pre-Spanish natives to present-day coastal residents, have organized their societies and individual lives around nature, and how Gulf nature has been a positive force in human events.
Please RSVP on Eagle Link! https://getinvolved.fgcu.edu/event/11657440
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October 15, 2025
Apocalyptic America and Revelation
Library Data Viz Wall, 11:30 AM
This is presentation is sponsored by the Department of Communication and Philosophy
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FGCU University Library
Events on October 15 and 16
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October 22, 2025
All students and faculty are welcome to attend this event hosted by the English Honor Society. Please RSVP at https://getinvolved.fgcu.edu/event/11724156
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Sunday, October 26,2025
Norman Krieger, piano
U. Tobe Recital Hall
Purchase tickets online: https://www.fgcu.edu/concerts/
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October 28, 2025
Graduate & Professional School Fair
Academic Building 9, Room 138
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
The entire Eagle community is invited!
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This fair is open to all FGCU students interested in exploring graduate and professional school opportunities. Three easy ways you can help:
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Promote the event by adding it to your undergraduate course syllabi as an assignment, a class activity, extra credit, or an announcement.
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Encourage attendance by highlighting the value of early graduate and professional (law, medicine, etc.) school exploration.
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Showcase your graduate program by attending the fair and engaging with prospective students who are eager to learn more about FGCU’s graduate offerings.
Questions? Contact Dr. Dawn Kirby, Shannon Acosta, Jessica Rhea
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November 3, 2025
President Aysegul Timur cordially invites you to An Interactive Panel Discussion with Prominent Southwest Florida Entrepreneur, Sandy Stilwell Youngquist. The event takes place on Monday, November 3, 2025 from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM at the Water School at FGCU. Details are below.
RSVP HERE by October 20, 2025, or by clicking the invite below. Wings Up and Go Eagles!
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November 4, 2025
How $1,000 Drones
Are Rewriting Superpower Warfare
The Water School, Room 106
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November 14, 2025
Fall Faculty Fest
Faculty:
join us for food, fun, drinks, and friends!
EagleLink:
getinvolved.fgcu.edu/event/11559895
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November 17, 2025
Global Engagement Office
28th Annual International Reception
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PAST ANNOUNCEMENTS
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| | FGCU Golisano Intellectual Developmental Disabilities Initiative (GIDDI)| American Sign Language Classes. Expand your communication skills and cultural understanding by joining our beginner American Sign Language (ASL) classes. FGCU GIDDI MOD 2, Wednesdays 1:30 PM- 2:30 PM. No commitment needed. | Click here to join. | | 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. | | New attendance tool in Canvas | Click here for the complete announcement. | | OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR STUDENTS | | |
This Week
Thursday, October 9
10 a.m.- 2 p.m.
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Daveler & Kauanui School of Entrepreneurship
Sustainable Future Challenge
Ideas Centered on Sustainability and Real Impact
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Tuesday, October 28
Graduate & Professional Students Fair
The Water School (AB9), Room 138
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Students will:
- Discover on- and off-campus graduate and professional school programs
- Learn about admission requirements and processes
Encourage your students to attend! Eagle Link
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School of Resort & Hospitality Management | | | | |
