{"id":470,"date":"2025-11-17T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/?p=470"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:34:19","slug":"saxon-ready-digital-badge-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/2025\/11\/17\/saxon-ready-digital-badge-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Saxon Ready Digital Badge Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/11\/SaxonReady-Badge.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-471\" style=\"width:291px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/11\/SaxonReady-Badge.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/11\/SaxonReady-Badge-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/11\/SaxonReady-Badge-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/11\/SaxonReady-Badge-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfred University students can now showcase their skills through the <strong>Saxon Ready Digital Badge Program<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These official, university-verified badges recognize key career readiness skills such as communication, leadership, teamwork, and professionalism. Students earn badges by completing activities like career fairs, internships, leadership roles, or service-learning projects, then display them on r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, LinkedIn, and Handshake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> Employers and graduate schools increasingly look for proof of skills beyond a GPA. Digital badges give your student a competitive edge and highlight the experiences that make them unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Encourage your student to log in to AU Connect and get started today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions? Contact the Career Development Center at <strong>cdc@alfred.edu<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred University students can now showcase their skills through the Saxon Ready Digital Badge Program! These official, university-verified badges recognize key career readiness skills such as communication, leadership, teamwork, and professionalism. Students earn badges by completing activities like career fairs, internships, leadership roles, or service-learning projects, then display them on r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, LinkedIn, and Handshake. Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/familyassociation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}