★ Bronze

◇ Silver

✦ Gold

◉ Platinum

Workshop 12.05

Badge Program Builder

Culture Change Planning Workbook — designed to be used live during the workshop and later as a stand-alone planning tool. Work through each section at your own pace.

How This Workbook Works

Designed for ideation and contextual design. Not to copy Purdue Global — but to help you build what best-in-class basic needs support looks like in your environment.

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Ideation Tool. Structured prompts that move you from inspiration → operational thinking.

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Not Meant to Be Finished Today. This is Version One. Export, refine, and adapt once you're back home.

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The Real Praxis Begins When You Leave This Room. Who needs to be in this work with you? Identify your cross-functional collaborators.

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Idea Sparks + Resource Library. Examples to stimulate thinking throughout each section.

This Workbook Belongs To

Your Name Email Address Institution Sector

K–12

Community College

4-Year University

Online Institution

Nonprofit

Other

Working Initiative Title

Learner Reality

My primary learner population One defining pressure our learners live under that we rarely name

Idea Spark — Common Learner Pressures

Caregiving responsibilities, employment demands, financial instability, housing insecurity, food insecurity, first-generation navigation gaps, digital access gaps, institutional mistrust, immigration-related stress, disability accommodation gaps.

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Section B & C

Defining Your Problem & Best-in-Class Vision

Before you can build culture change, you need clarity on what you're changing toward — not just away from.

Section B — The Problem to Solve

The challenge or priority I want to address is:

Idea Spark — Possible Priorities

Basic needs support, sense of belonging, attendance and persistence, mental health awareness, transfer navigation, career readiness, referral confidence, community alignment, faculty trust-building, equity gap reduction.

Section C — Best-in-Class Vision Builder

"At our institution, best-in-class would mean that [who] consistently [does what] so that students experience [what outcome]."

Students would feel: Faculty and staff would regularly: This would be visible in:

Write your complete Best-in-Class statement:

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Bronze establishes shared awareness, common language, and clarity about referral pathways so that support becomes consistent rather than accidental. Bronze is not optional infrastructure — it is the foundation everything else is built on.

Core Competencies — Select All That Apply

Recognition of Warning Signs Supportive Conversations Referral Pathways Shared Language Institutional Resources Community Resources

Notes, ideas, and adaptations for your context:

Entry Points — Where Could Bronze Be Delivered?

Professional development day New employee onboarding Center for Teaching and Learning programming Institutional webinars Lunch-and-learns Department meetings Online / asynchronous training modules Existing LMS-based modules

Where does your institution already gather people in ways that could support this learning?

How Will You Know Bronze Is Working?

Faculty and staff would begin to: Students would experience: One signal of success would be:

🏫 HOW THIS WORKS AT PURDUE GLOBAL

A professional development course focused on recognizing signs of struggle, holding supportive conversations, and activating the referral system. Bronze was embedded as a required component in PD goals across many schools.

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Silver translates awareness into visible behavior that students can actually see. It closes the gap between knowing what to do and doing it in a way learners encounter. Are students seeing evidence that help is available before they hit a crisis point?

Support Statement Rewrite Challenge

EXAMPLE A — DIRECT

"If you need support with basic needs challenges, I am a safe place to start that conversation."

Clear, personal, and low-barrier. Works well for faculty who want a direct, human tone.

EXAMPLE B — RESOURCE-FOCUSED

"If financial, food, housing, or personal challenges are affecting your learning, I can help connect you to support. You do not have to navigate this alone."

Broader scope, names specific challenges. Works well for syllabi and LMS announcements.

My Version — Write Your Adapted Statement Here:

Where Should This Be Visible?

Course syllabus Email signature LMS course announcement Instructor / advisor profile Advising communications Orientation materials Department or program newsletter

The first place I would implement this:

How Will You Know Silver Is Working?

Students would begin to: Faculty and staff would:

🏫 HOW THIS WORKS AT PURDUE GLOBAL

Faculty and staff added support statements to LMS course announcements as a standard expectation — creating consistent student-facing messaging across hundreds of course sections.

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Gold builds community fluency — the confidence and practical knowledge to connect students not just to internal resources, but to the broader ecosystem of support beyond campus walls. Gold should stretch capacity without overwhelming it.

Design Decisions

Will engagement happen:

Individually (self-directed) As a cohort (structured group) Hybrid (both options available)

How many activities feel challenging but doable? Why this number makes sense for our context:

Requirement Builder

Participants would need: Administrative support would include: Community partners would need: Our Gold requirement will be:

🏫 HOW THIS WORKS AT PURDUE GLOBAL

The Five Agency Challenge — participants documented visits to five community agencies and reflected on what each offered, building real referral confidence.

05 / 10

Platinum distributes leadership and sustains the momentum that Gold creates. Rather than depending on a single coordinator, Platinum crowdsources ownership — creating a network of trained champions. Initiatives that depend on a single champion are one resignation away from collapse.

Connecting Gold to Platinum

If Gold includes: Then Platinum would need to:

Who Could Sustain This?

One role that could steward this at my institution:

Platinum Activities

Present at a Power Hour or community session Host an agency spotlight event Mentor Bronze or Silver participants Organize a community engagement event Curate a community resource guide Lead a lunch-and-learn session Serve as a designated referral champion

In our context, Platinum would require:

Make It Visible — How Will You Honor Platinum?

Digital badge (shareable to LinkedIn, email) Email signature designation Custom Zoom background Formal recognition event Professional development credit Newsletter feature / institutional spotlight

The visible signal that this matters at our institution:

Sustainability Check

Biggest risk to momentum at my institution: One concrete way to prevent or mitigate that risk:

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Minimum Viable Infrastructure

You Don't Need Perfect Infrastructure to Begin.

The goal of this page is to identify the simplest, most honest starting system — one that you can actually use on Day 1.

What Do You Have Right Now?

Professional development tracking system Formal badging platform (e.g. Credly, Canvas Badges) Google Forms (for tracking completion) Shared drive (for resource storage) Program or department website Existing newsletter or communication channel Regular meeting cadence with key stakeholders

Your Starting System

The simplest system we could start with: The leadership role that must say yes: What they need to hear to say yes:

07 / 10

Kickoff Plan

Your First Moves.

A good kickoff plan is specific, low-risk, and designed to create visible proof of concept quickly.

Select Your Kickoff Strategy

Pilot with one department or school Pilot Bronze only — build from there Launch Bronze + Silver together as a paired initiative Run a 60-day Gold engagement challenge Recruit volunteer champions to anchor the launch

Your First Moves

First visible kickoff move:

Start date

30-day milestone

60-day milestone

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Final Commitment

Co-Conspirator Map & Final Commitment

Culture change does not happen in isolation. Name the people and name your next move.

Who Do You Wish Had Been in This Room?

Name Role Why them — what do they bring to this?

Meeting date scheduled:

Final Commitment

My first action is: Within 30 days I will: The smallest version that still counts:

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Submit Your Workbook

You've Done the Hard Thinking.

Review your work below, then submit. Your responses will be sent directly to the workshop team.

A Note from the Team

"Culture change spreads through participation. You are not alone in building this." — Karen McGregor, Ph.D. & Barbara Stratman-Mattoni, Ed.D.

If you have questions or would like support after the workshop, reach out to:
Karen McGregor, Ph.D. — [email protected]

🎁 Your Goodie Bag

Resources to help you get started — download and bookmark these before you leave.

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Example Program Site

See the Purdue Global Best in Class Basic Needs Support badging program in action.

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What is Power Hour?

You may have heard us mention this a few times — here's more info about Power Hour.

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Bronze Level Lesson Plan ↓

A ready-to-adapt lesson plan you can customize for your institution's context and delivery format.

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Example Statements ↓

Real examples of support statements from faculty and staff to inspire your own.

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Your Workbook Was Submitted.

Thank you for doing the hard thinking. Culture change spreads through participation — and you've just taken your first concrete step. The workshop team will be in touch.

Save a copy of all your planning for future reference.

🎁 Your Goodie Bag

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Example Program Site

Purdue Global Best in Class Basic Needs badging program

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What is Power Hour?

Learn more about Power Hour

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Bronze Level Lesson Plan ↓

Ready-to-adapt for your institution

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Example Statements ↓

Real support statements to inspire your own