CBE Digital Badging
Welcome to WWU College of Business and Economic's Digital Badging Website! Here you can learn all about our ever growing Digital Badge program.
What is Digital Badging?
Digital Badges are an online, digital recognition of gained skills. Digital badges provide earners with the opportunity to share their completed accomplishments in desirable and employable skills. These badges contain data that include description, earning criteria, specific skills, and other parameters set by the institution. After earning, recipients can digitally display and share badges that easily verify the acquisition of specific skills and proficiency in certain subjects.
Building Skills for the Future
Badging at the College of Business and Economics is a way for students to visibly track their employable skill development over time.
Tracks Skills: | Creates Equity: | Build Resumes: | Supports Employers: |
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| Badges provide a digital system for students to keep all of their skills and achievements in one place | Creating a digital platform to identify employable skills, makes it easier for all students to see and develop their professional "next steps" | Earners are able to strengthen their resumes with employable skills | Employers are able to find new hires with skills they need quickly and easily |
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*Updated September 20th, 2025
Why be Involved with Badging?
A student badge earner is an individual who completes specific learning goals or achievements in a program and earns a digital badge as recognition. Through this process, students gain valuable skills, demonstrate proficiency, and receive acknowledgment for their efforts. Earning badges helps students showcase their accomplishments, build a portfolio, and stand out in academic or professional settings. It also provides motivation, as badges represent tangible milestones in their educational journey.
By developing a badge with the College of Business and Economics, programs and on campus partners can issue digital badges to students who complete specific achievements or learning objectives. Through this process, the issuer provides students with recognition for their skills, accomplishments, and progress in various academic or extracurricular areas.
Interested in issuing a badge with the College of Business and Economics? Please reach out to CBE@wwu.edu.
We at CBE are always happy to work with our employers to help our students develop necessary professional skills! By partnering with the College of Business and Economics, Employers and Sponsors are able to identify key skills they'd like to see our students develop. We then work in partnership to create a badge that fits those hire able skills and highlights the opportunities that our sponsors have for professional development.
Interested in sponsoring a badge? Please reach out to CBE@wwu.edu.
Frequently Asked Questions
The CBE Badging Program is an exciting way for students to level up their professional skills and stand out to employers! By earning digital badges in areas like leadership, communication, and data analysis, students can showcase their achievements on LinkedIn and resumes with confidence. It’s a fun, flexible way to turn workshops, internships, and campus involvement into real career momentum—tailored to each student’s goals.
Faculty. Staff and Departments can issue badges for any co-curricular activity that supports student development outside the classroom with the support of the Badge Admin. This includes workshops, speaker events, club leadership, case competitions, internships, mentoring, and other experiences that build professional skills. If it helps students grow and prepares them for their careers, it’s a great candidate for a badge!
Currently, the badges are available for CBE interest, pre-majors, and declared majors. If you fall into those categories, we are excited for you to earn a Badge!
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work
-Usain Bolt