Pioneer Merit: Digital Badges
About the Program
Cal State East Bay is enhancing how we serve students by creating Pioneer Merit, a digital badge acknowledgement program. Digital badges validate students’ skills, achievement, and competency in diverse contexts through online recognition via a digital emblem. Earned digital badges can be shared through various social media outlets, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, BaySync, and other networking sites. Showcasing Pioneer Merit illustrates students’ scholastic achievements, to potential employers and advanced degree programs, above and beyond academic major requirements and information on official transcripts.
Students that successfully complete a particular course or reach a specific milestone towards graduation will earn an official Cal State East Bay Pioneer Merit digital badge. The titles and descriptions of Badges that may be earned are outlined in the table below.
Claiming a Pioneer Merit digital badge is simple. Students that successfully complete the necessary digital badge requirements will be contacted via email from Credly’s Acclaim platform - the digital badge platform used by Cal State East Bay. This email will provide instructions to claim the digital badge. Students will be taken to the secure Acclaim by Credly website platform where they will complete a profile and password. Once this information is validated through a follow-up confirmation email, the student will be able to access the earned digital badge. Students have the opportunity to link to the badge to various social media platforms, share the badge via email, or keep it private.
Successfully earning enough units of college credit
Successfully earning enough units to advance from a first-year to a second-year student
Successfully earning enough units to advance from a second-year to a third-year student
Successfully earning enough units to advance from a third-year to a fourth-year student
Successful completion of General Education Subarea, A3
Grade point average of 3.5 or higher, per semester
Successful completion of a lower-division General Education Diversity Overlay course
Successful completion of the Cal State East Bay Graduation Check
Successful completion of Internship 498 or 698
Successful completion of General Education Subarea, A1
Successful completion of General Education Subarea, B4
Successful completion of a lower-division General Education Social Justice Overlay course
Successful completion of an upper-division General Education Social Justice Overlay course
Successful completion of a lower-division General Education Sustainability Overlay course
Successful completion of an upper-division General Education Sustainability Overlay course
Successful completion of the University Writing Skills Requirement
Successful completion of General Education Subarea, A2
Questions?
For more information about the digital badge acknowledgement program at Cal State East Bay, please contact - pioneermerit@csueastbay.edu. Additional details about Acclaim by Credly may be found on the organization’s website: www.youracclaim.com
