Episode 4 On being the Lead Academic Advisor for Team Natural Sciences at FGCU, Locksley A. Knibbs. Ed.D‪.‬ Mi SWFL Gente PODCAST

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Locksley Knibbs. He is originally from Jamaica and has lived more than 20 years in Southwest Florida. Locksley is the Lead Academic Advisor for Team Natural Sciences at Florida Gulf Coast University. 

As the Lead Academic Advisor for Team Natural Sciences, Locksley is charged with implementing programs and policies to achieve the College of Arts & Sciences overall goals and objectives in assisting students to graduate within a timely manner and to ensure that they are making progress towards degree completion. 

Dr. Knibbs teaches a required course in the College of Arts & Sciences at FGCU titled IDS 3300 Foundations of Civic Engagement (3). Since Fall 2016 Dr. Knibbs has taught a required course in the College of Arts & Sciences titled Foundations of Civic Engagement to sophomore, junior and senior students. This course teaches the fundamentals of Civic Engagement and help them understand, evaluate, and analyze foundational elements of engagement including associating, serving, giving, leading, and foundational techniques including critical thinking, problem solving, civil dialogue, perspectives and spheres of engagement, and application to meaningful community projects.

Locksley holds a doctorate in Education, with a Concentration in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from FGCU, a Master of Education degree with a Concentration in Higher Education Administration from Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Advising Award at FGCU in 2017 and became the first African American to have achieved this feat and the first male to have won the award. 

NACADA Involvement

2019-2021 NACADA Administrative Division (AD), Chair: Inclusion & Engagement Committee 

2019-2021 Co-Chair NACADA Task Force on Race, Ethnicity, and Inclusion

2018-2020 NACADA Administrative Division, Emerging Leaders Program Advisory Board NACADA Advising Communities Division (ACD) Cluster 6: Probation/Dismissal/ Reinstatement Committee 

Advising Communities: 


Advisor Training and Development Community
Probation/Dismissal/Reinstatement Issues Advising Community
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Advising Community
Theory, Philosophy, & History of Advising Community 

Scholarship & Research

Locksley is a noted scholar practitioner. He has presented at various NACADA conferences at the National, Regional and International levels. The most recent was at the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) International Conference in Hasselt, Belgium, hosted by Hasselt University last summer and in 2018 at the University College of Dublin Ireland in 2018. His research interest is on Minority and Underserved Populations in Academic Advising, African American Males and the Leadership within Higher Education. In 2016, National Academic Advising Association NACADA-The Global Community for Academic Advising, selected Locksley as one of the ten Emerging Leaders for 2016-2018. 

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E-mail: lknibbs@ fgcu.edu 

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