NextGen Civic Leader Badge
Your UW Experience Is Building You as a Civic Leader.
Connect the experiences and contributions that matter to you, reflect on what you're learning and how you're growing, and earn recognition for your civic leadership along the way.
Make the experiences shaping you part of your UW story.
Civic leadership can grow through experiences across your UW life: serving a community, leading an organization, participating on a team, studying abroad, conducting research, completing an internship, engaging with an issue, or contributing to something you care about.
The NextGen Civic Leader Badge helps you bring those experiences together, reflect on what they mean, and recognize the civic leader you are becoming.
Two requirements. One civic leadership story.
The Badge combines the range of experiences you document through the Civic Health Scorecard with deeper reflection on one significant experience.
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Civic Health Scorecard
250 Points
Build a record of the different ways you learn, participate, connect, and contribute.
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Centerpiece Activity
100+ Hours
Go deeper with one significant civic leadership or community engagement experience.
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Build the Badge through experiences you're already having.
You do not need to follow one prescribed path. Start where you are and build over time.
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Engage
Take part in experiences that connect with your interests, communities, goals, and values.
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Reflect
Think about what you contributed, learned, questioned, and how your perspective developed.
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Connect
Bring your experiences together and recognize how they are shaping you as a civic leader.
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Civic leadership can grow across your UW life.
You do not need to study public policy or plan a career in government. Civic leadership develops across disciplines, communities, organizations, teams, workplaces, and interests.
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Serve & Support
Volunteer, mentor, tutor, participate in mutual aid, or contribute to a community organization.
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Lead & Organize
Lead an RSO, participate on a team, organize with others, or strengthen a community you belong to.
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Learn & Explore
Study abroad, conduct research, complete a capstone, or explore issues and perspectives.
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Work & Contribute
Complete an internship, engage in public service, volunteer, or contribute your skills.
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Build your Civic Health Scorecard.
The Civic Health Scorecard helps you discover opportunities and document the many ways you participate in civic and community life.
Complete Civic Actions, reflect on your experiences, and earn points as your civic record grows. Qualifying college-level Civic Actions may also be logged retroactively.
Go deeper with a Centerpiece Activity.
Your Centerpiece is a significant experience of 100 hours or more where you practice civic leadership and community engagement and have opportunities for reflection and/or mentorship.
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✓ Internship
✓ Sustained volunteering or service
✓ RSO or community leadership
✓ Research or capstone
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✓ Advocacy or issue engagement
✓ Study abroad
✓ Athletic team participation
✓ Another significant experience
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Recognition—and a clearer story about your leadership.
Completing the Badge recognizes your civic leadership while helping you develop language for talking about your experiences, contributions, learning, and growth.
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Physical Badge
A pin recognizing completion of the NextGen Civic Leader Badge.
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LinkedIn Badge
A digital way to share your achievement and commitment.
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Your Civic Story
A clearer way to share what you contributed, learned, and value.
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Want to introduce the Scorecard + Badge to a group?
CELE can help faculty, staff, programs, and student groups introduce students to the Scorecard and NextGen Civic Leader Badge or build them more intentionally into an existing learning experience.
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One-Time Session
Request a Workshop
Bring a Scorecard + Badge introduction or interactive activity to your class, student organization, team, cohort, or program to explore opportunities for civic engagement.
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Deeper Connection
Course/Cohort Integration
Connect existing learning, activities, reflections, or assignments with meaningful Scorecard participation, civic engagement opportunities, and progress toward the NextGen Civic Leader Badge.
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Use the NextGen Civic Leader Badge Guide.
The guide walks you through checking your Scorecard progress, identifying a Centerpiece Activity, preparing your Centerpiece reflection, and completing your Badge.
Recognize the civic leader you are becoming.
Start with the experiences you're already having, the contributions you're already making, and the communities and issues that matter to you.
