Celebrating the new NetVUE volume Called Beyond Our Selves: Vocation and the Common Good, this regional gathering will feature some of the contributing writers to the volume around the topic of vocational discernment in the context of the common good. When we invite students to see their lives as connected with others’ well-being, the ways we define meaning, purpose and success shift.
Given the increasing polarization of contemporary civic life and the challenges within higher education, the regional gathering invites faculty, staff and administrators to consider how we live into/know our place and how we encourage students to discern vocations for the common good.
Discussion Topics
This regional gathering will center on the theme of belonging considering such questions as:
- How do we help our students to explore and discern their vocations in ways that strengthen experiences of belonging in their current and future lives?
- How do our institutional narratives include those from our past who were once made to feel they did not belong?
- How can we create sustainable and compassionate classrooms so that our students feel they belong in our community?
- How do we engage with one another, across difference, so that we invite all into productive dialogue?
- What spaces on campus and activities beyond our campus can we create that connect us more meaningfully to one another?
All participants will receive a copy of the new volume, Called Beyond Our Selves: Vocation and the Common Good; which is also NetVUE’s “Big Read” selection for the 2024-25 academic year.
Complete information on this NetVUE regional gathering is available on the Furman University website.
