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Introduce the Exchange to Faculty Beyond Your Institution

You may refer faculty peers, academic contacts, and educators in your professional network to the WDSAI Faculty Excellence Exchange. WDSAI will contact them with information about the Exchange and explain how their institution can join the World Data Science & AI Initiative, enabling eligible faculty to participate through institutional nomination.

The faculty member you are referring

Share what distinguishes them as an educator, the contribution they make to their students or institution, and why closer engagement with practitioners could be valuable to their academic work.

A referral serves as an introduction. Participation becomes available once the faculty member’s institution is approved by WDSAI and formally nominates them for the Exchange.

Add this session to your schedule?

Once you add this session, you will receive a Zoom invitation containing the session details and joining link at your registered email address. Join using the same email address so your attendance can be matched accurately to your Exchange profile. The session will be recorded in accordance with the Session Participation Policy.

At least 30 minutes of attendance is required for the session to count toward your Exchange participation.

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World Data Science & AI Initiative
Faculty Excellence
Exchange
Fellowship Candidate

Welcome

AI can now write code. A student’s real value has shifted upward, into problem formulation, research thinking, judgment, and knowing how to direct AI rather than compete with it. Teaching data science and AI has to change accordingly.

Unlocks on conferral

Toward your Fellowship

One session in each core area, with an Implementation Note after each.

On conferral, your name is entered as

    On conferral you receive the tri-signed digital certificate and the FWDSAI badge for LinkedIn and your professional profile. See what conferral brings

    Lend your voice

    Participants shape what the Exchange covers.

    What has your teaching taught you that your peers should hear?

    Write for WDSAI Insights, or propose a session on something your teaching has taught you.

    Carry it forward

    Host a campus circle

    Convene colleagues in your department to work through what a session raised and what it means for the courses you teach between you. What one faculty member takes from a session becomes departmental practice only once it has been discussed.

    Refer a faculty member

    Introduce a colleague at another institution whose teaching would gain from sustained contact with practitioners. WDSAI writes to them directly and takes up the question of approval with their institution.

    The network you joined

    This cycle brings together 100+ faculty across 23 countries, teaching the same subjects with the same shifting expectations.

    Once the cycle is underway, participating faculty will appear here. What they changed in their classrooms, what happened when they did, and the questions they are still working on.

    From the Exchange

    Second dates for each core area will be announced later in the cycle. Joining details arrive by email a week before each session.

    Questions? Contact facultyexcellence@wdsai.org

    Your journal

    Think on paper between sessions.

    What would I teach differently on Monday?

    Who else in my department needs this?

    Standards partners

    Fellowship is conferred under standards they jointly develop and maintain.

    DASCA, Data Science Council of America
    ARTiBA, Artificial Intelligence Board of America

    On conferral

    Issued digitally, and verifiable.

    Fellow of the World Data Science & AI Initiative

    Conferred under the Faculty Practice Standards
    Register of Fellows · FWDSAI

    WDSAI
    DASCA
    ARTiBA
    Unlocks on conferral
    The FWDSAI digital badge
    Digital badge for LinkedIn and
    your professional profile

    Sessions

    0/0Attended

    Welcome to your Exchange sessions. Each session is a live working conversation with senior industry practitioners, designed to surface current practice, challenge assumptions, and give you ideas you can carry back into your teaching.

    Choose upcoming sessions for the remaining core areas. Joining details will appear here once they are released.

    Implementation Notes are due within 30 days of each attended session.

    About session participation

    Attendance is confirmed for participants who attend the live session in full and remain reasonably engaged with the session. WDSAI may review attendance where participation is incomplete or unclear. Technical difficulties, unavoidable disruptions, and other reasonable circumstances are considered individually.

    Choose your dates

    Session guidelines

    What counts as attendance

    Attendance is confirmed for participants who attend the live session in full and remain reasonably engaged throughout. Joining after the first 15 minutes of the session may prevent attendance from being confirmed. Participants must join with the name and email linked to their Exchange registration so attendance can be matched correctly. Simply joining the meeting does not establish attendance.

    Leaving and rejoining

    Participants who are disconnected may rejoin the session. Brief interruptions or the need to reconnect do not ordinarily affect attendance.

    Attendance may be reviewed where the session record shows a late arrival, early departure, extended absence, repeated disconnection, or another pattern that makes participation unclear.

    Technical difficulties and other disruptions

    Connection failures, power interruptions, and comparable unavoidable circumstances are considered individually. Participants will not be disadvantaged for disruptions attributable to WDSAI or its session platform.

    Where an unavoidable circumstance materially affects participation, WDSAI may review the session record and determine whether attendance can reasonably be confirmed.

    Where attendance cannot be confirmed

    Where WDSAI cannot reasonably confirm attendance, the participant will be notified and may complete the relevant core area in a subsequent run.

    Implementation Notes

    An Implementation Note must be submitted within 30 days of attending a session. If it is not submitted within that period, the session will not count toward participation and the attendance record is removed. The core area becomes available again in the next run.

    Participation letter

    The participation letter for a session becomes available for download after the corresponding Implementation Note is submitted.

    Session recordings

    Session recordings are made available after the participant submits the corresponding Implementation Note. Viewing a recording does not count as attendance and does not complete a core area.

    Questions about attendance

    If you believe an attendance record is incorrect, contact the Faculty Excellence Exchange team at facultyexcellence@wdsai.org.

    My Fellowship

    Fellowship records that you engaged seriously with current practice and brought it back to your teaching. It is held for life, and it names you among the faculty shaping this discipline.

    Progress toward FWDSAI

    One session in each core area, with an Implementation Note after each.

    On conferral, your name is entered as

      On conferral

      Issued digitally, and verifiable.

      Fellow of the World Data Science & AI Initiative

      Conferred under the Faculty Practice Standards
      Register of Fellows · FWDSAI

      WDSAI
      DASCA
      ARTiBA
      Unlocks on conferral
      The FWDSAI digital badge
      Digital badge for LinkedIn and
      your professional profile

      The conferral process

      Fellowship is conferred by WDSAI. The conferral document is co-signed by DASCA and ARTiBA to attest that conferral occurred under the Faculty Practice Standards they jointly develop and maintain.

      Fellows are entered in the Register of Fellows and may use the designation for life, under the Fellowship Terms.

      The Fellowship Terms

      Once conferred, the Fellowship is held for life, subject to the Fellowship Terms. Fellows may use the post-nominal letters FWDSAI after their name in academic and professional contexts.

      Your Fellowship is recorded in the Register of Fellows and remains available for verification.

      The complete Fellowship Terms are provided with your conferral document.

      Standards partners

      DASCA, Data Science Council of America
      ARTiBA, Artificial Intelligence Board of America

      Journal

      A private place to work through what stood out in an Exchange session and what it may mean for your own teaching.

      The Reflection Canvas

      1. Notice. What did you hear that challenged or complicated something you currently teach?

      2. Locate. Where exactly does that sit in your syllabus, your assessment, or your project briefs?

      3. Change. What is the smallest change you could make before the next time you teach?

      4. Carry. Who else in your department should hear this, and how will you tell them?

      Space for anything else you want to retain from the session, in whatever form is useful to you.

      How to use this journal

      Use this journal to record what stood out from a session and how it may influence your teaching. Focus on a real course, assessment, project, or classroom situation. You can return later and revise your reflection.

      Prefer the specific over the general. A note about a capstone brief that assumes clean data is more useful here than a general note about modernizing the curriculum.

      For formal Fellowship requirements, use the separate Implementation Notes section.

      Who can read this

      Only you can access your journal entries. They are not available to the WDSAI program team or review panel, and they are not reviewed or graded. Implementation Notes are the formal submissions reviewed as part of the Fellowship process.

      Download

      Take it offline.

      PDF
      Reflection Canvas
      Printable workbook · one page per core area

      Print it, write by hand, keep it beside your teaching notes. Your entries stay yours and are never submitted.

      Your entries

      Contribute

      The Faculty Excellence Exchange is strengthened by faculty who share practices tested in their own teaching. You can contribute by proposing a WDSAI Insight or by taking part in a future Exchange cycle.

      Contributions may be recognized within the leadership dimension of the Faculty Practice Standards, but they do not replace the requirements for Fellowship conferral.

      Propose a WDSAI Insight

      Propose a practice-based article for WDSAI Insights based on your own teaching or academic experience. Selected pieces are developed for publication under your name.

      Contribute to a Future Exchange Cycle

      Lead or co-lead a working session, join a panel, contribute a problem brief, or mentor participating faculty.

      Propose a WDSAI Insight

      WDSAI Insights publishes faculty perspectives and practice-based contributions. We are particularly interested in changes you have made to curriculum, teaching, or assessment, why you made them, and what you observed afterwards.

      Briefly describe the change, its context, and any observed outcomes.

      Articles, papers, talks, or professional profiles.

      Contribute to a Future Exchange Cycle

      Experienced participants may propose a topic or indicate how they would like to contribute to a future cycle. Proposals are reviewed against upcoming core areas, participant needs, and the experience relevant to the proposed contribution.

      Describe the teaching, academic, or professional experience relevant to the proposed contribution.

      Why contribute

      Share tested faculty practice with peers across WDSAI institutions.

      Build a documented record of your contributions to the Exchange.

      Selected contributors may be invited to participate in future cycles, publications, or working sessions.

      Your pitches and proposals

      My Profile

      These details follow you through the Exchange and onto your conferral document, so it is worth keeping them exact.

      Faculty details

      Taken from your registration. Keep these current.

      Name as it will appear on your certificate
       This is the exact name that will be entered in the Register of Fellows and printed on your conferral document. Changing it is a written-confirmation step, so write to facultyexcellence@wdsai.org and the team will make the change and confirm it back to you.

      Teaching

      Your expectations of the Exchange

      Your stated expectations, from registration.

      Session leads see these themes in aggregate when shaping each cycle's program.

      Academic background

      Collected once, on complete-your-profile.html — editable here anytime after.

      Areas of interest

      Helps WDSAI share relevant sessions and connect you with peers.

      Photo

      No photo

      Upload a professional photograph for your Exchange profile. If you take part in a session or a public faculty feature, WDSAI will use the photograph only with your permission. Uploading it does not make it public.

      Documents

      PDF
      Profile / CV
      Uploaded at registration

      Entry route

      Declarations

      Account

      Change your sign-in password.

      Recognition

      When faculty are visible, the Exchange becomes something institutions recognize. Your participation tells other departments that this work is worth their time.

      Your preferences

      In the faculty roster Lists your name, institution, academic areas and LinkedIn profile in the faculty roster, where colleagues across the Exchange may search by area and approach you directly.

      Featured on LinkedIn DASCA and ARTiBA introduce participating faculty across the cycle. Your name, photo, and institution may be used. This permission stays on once given. To withdraw it later, write to facultyexcellence@wdsai.org.

      Featuring begins once your photo is uploaded and this permission is on.

      Session announcements and newsletters

      Showcase your Fellowship

      Once conferred, FWDSAI belongs in every place your name does.

      Each of these is released when your Fellowship is conferred.

      After your name

      The post-nominal FWDSAI, for your CV, your faculty page and your conference bios.

      Released on conferral

      Email signature

      A signature block carrying your designation and your credential ID.

      Released on conferral

      Add to LinkedIn credentials

      Entered under Licenses and certifications on your LinkedIn profile.

      Released on conferral

      Digital Badge

      A verifiable badge carrying a live link to your entry in the Register of Fellows. Any dean, employer or collaborator can confirm your Fellowship from it.

      Issued on conferral

      Your published paper

      An accepted Practice Paper is published under your name and institution in the Faculty Practice Library. It belongs in your publication list alongside your journal work.

      Share your participation

      WDSAI Fellowship Candidate

      Uses the photo from your profile.

      Recognition that reaches your institution

      Your engagement should be visible where it counts. On completing the cycle, WDSAI writes to your Dean and institutional leadership acknowledging your participation, and conferred Fellows are announced to their institutions.

      Nothing is sent to your institution about you without the permission above.

      Implementation Notes

      After each Exchange session, submit brief Implementation Notes describing your key takeaways and how you may apply them in your institution. Your notes are private and will not appear in the Register of Fellows.

      Implementation Note = what I intend to do after this session.

      Practice Paper = what I ultimately did, learned, and would change.

      Your notes

      One per core area.

      Purpose of your note

      After each session, record one concrete change you intend to make in your teaching while the discussion is still fresh.

      Focus on your intention: what you plan to change, where you will make the change, and why it matters. You are not expected to have implemented it yet. In your Practice Paper at the end of the cycle, you will reflect on what actually happened. That reflection can draw on the intentions recorded across your 4 Implementation Notes.

      Notes are due within 30 days of the session you attended.

      How to write your note

      Be specific. Name the relevant course, module, assessment, rubric, activity, or other area of your teaching, and describe the change you intend to make.

      A concise paragraph may be enough for a focused change. A broader redesign may require more explanation.

      Write in your own professional voice. The purpose is to record a clear and usable intention and not to produce a polished academic paper.

      Who reads it

      The panel, when confirming your completion of each core area. Themes across all faculty shape what a later cycle covers.

      Your individual notes are never published and never shared with your institution. Your Practice Paper is the part you choose to make public.

      Practice Paper

      Your Practice Paper explains what changed in your teaching and what happened as a result. It is the final requirement for conferral. Once accepted, it becomes part of your Fellowship record. You decide whether WDSAI may also publish it in the Faculty Practice Library under your name and institution.

      Your paper

      One paper, written against your 4 Implementation Notes.

      What the paper covers

      Four sections, written against your 4 Implementation Notes.

      01The gap

      What the field now expects that your course did not cover, argued from what the sessions surfaced.

      02The change

      What you altered in syllabus, assessment, tooling, or sequence, in enough detail that a colleague elsewhere could repeat it.

      03The evidence

      What happened when students met it. Work products, assessment results, or employer and placement feedback, held against what you said you would look for.

      04The transfer

      What a colleague at another institution could lift from this, and what they would need to adapt.

      Your notes become the draft

      You will have written 4 Implementation Notes by the time the paper opens, each naming a change and the evidence you meant to look for. Those are the paper in raw form — use them as the basis for each section here.

      You may start drafting at any time, even before every session is attended. Nothing is submitted until you choose to submit.

      How it is reviewed

      The same academic and industry panel reads your paper against the Faculty Practice Standards. There are three outcomes. Accepted, returned once for revision, or declined.

      A returned paper reopens with the reviewer's comment above it, and you have one revision.

      Publication

      If you choose to make your accepted paper public, WDSAI will publish it under your name and institution in the Faculty Practice Library. If you choose to keep it private, it will remain in your Fellowship record and will not appear publicly.

      The Faculty Practice Library is read by deans, department heads and faculty across the network, and it is where an institution looks to see what the Exchange has actually changed.

      World Data Science & AI Initiative
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      “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

      John Cotton Dana