Cultivating an Innovation Mindset
How does FSU Cultivate an Innovation Mindset?
Innovation is embedded in our culture. Our faculty and staff work across departments to collaborate on unique challenges, share innovative ideas, and help shape the future of higher education. From adopting emerging technologies like AI to fostering interdisciplinary research, we've built an institution where curiosity drives action. When faculty embrace change, students learn to do the same, and that innovation mindset is what produces graduates who are ready for and will thrive in an uncertain future.
It's so important that they get experience with these tools while they're here, we know that they're going to need these skills to be competitive in the workplace.
Robert Fuselier, Chief Academic Technology Officer at FSU
Source: EdTech Magazine
FSU Google Partnership
FSU is the first R1 institution within the State University System of Florida to participate in Google’s AI for Education Accelerator, delivering free AI training and cutting-edge tools campuswide. These tools are embedded into teaching and learning, elevating our academic programs to prepare students for their careers and beyond.
Mindset in Action
At FSU, innovation is a consistent endeavor that unites and motivates academics and researchers across all disciplines.
When Different Fields Come Together, New Answers Emerge
Some of the most complex challenges cannot be solved by one field alone. FSU researchers are bringing engineering, cancer biology, cell biology and mathematical modeling together to investigate how physical changes inside cells contribute to pancreatic cancer. By combining expertise across disciplines, the $2.8 million National Cancer Institute-funded study is opening new possibilities for understanding complex diseases and exploring future approaches to treatment.
Faculty Innovators Program
Faculty Innovators is a group of faculty and staff from across disciplines that shares ideas and insights, refines coursework, and designs the future of higher education. This community collaborates weekly to push the boundaries of academic innovation, learning and drives engagement from the ground up.
Research Challenges
Collaborative Collisions explore a single pressing challenge addressing our world each semester. Building connections and developing solution-oriented strategies, interdisciplinary research teams compete for seed funding to launch their pilot programs.
Finding Connections Across Research Topics
Across campus, research interest groups bring together faculty to discuss ideas, host workshops, and develop joint grant proposals. This collaboration enables FSU to drive solutions for critical challenges like cardiometabolic health, quantum technologies, and maternal and child health.
Boosting Learning with Emerging Technologies
Through a pilot program, AI Sparks, faculty are encouraged to test and implement AI-based learning activities in their classrooms to teach students the power of AI as a learning tool rather than a shortcut.