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NetVUE Webinar: (Re)Experiencing the NetVUE 2026 National Conference
Back to NetVUE Events Please join us for a 90-minute online wrap-up of the 2026 NetVUE Conference. If you are on your institution’s team for the event, this webinar will give you a chance to relive some of the highlights and to offer your own thoughts on what worked well and what could be improved. If you […] -
2026 State Councils Annual Conference
The State Councils Annual Conference provides state executives and fundraising staff with a forum for face-to-face networking and an opportunity to share best practices with colleagues. -
NetVUE Scriptural Reasoning Hub – Campbell University
Back to NetVUE Events Evidence suggests that the practice of Scriptural Reasoning (SR) can be particularly useful in undergraduate settings as a tool for exploring questions of vocation; this complements its established use as a form of inter-religious engagement and cross-disciplinary study. NetVUE is developing a new nationwide program of Scriptural Reasoning for Vocation Reflection. […] -
NetVUE Scriptural Reasoning Hub – Butler University
Back to NetVUE Events Evidence suggests that the practice of Scriptural Reasoning (SR) can be particularly useful in undergraduate settings as a tool for exploring questions of vocation; this complements its established use as a form of inter-religious engagement and cross-disciplinary study. NetVUE is developing a new nationwide program of Scriptural Reasoning for Vocation Reflection. […] -
2026 Workshop for Department and Division Chairs – Columbus, OH
CIC offers the annual Department and Division Chair Workshops to strengthen leadership at the departmental level. The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent colleges and universities. -
NetVUE Scriptural Reasoning Hub – St. Edward’s University
Back to NetVUE Events Evidence suggests that the practice of Scriptural Reasoning (SR) can be particularly useful in undergraduate settings as a tool for exploring questions of vocation; this complements its established use as a form of inter-religious engagement and cross-disciplinary study. NetVUE is developing a new nationwide program of Scriptural Reasoning for Vocation Reflection. […] -
2026 NetVUE Seminar: Teaching Vocational Exploration
CIC is pleased to offer a multidisciplinary seminar, Teaching Vocational Exploration, for full-time faculty members in all fields at colleges and universities that are members of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). The seminar is designed for early- to mid-career faculty members at the rank of assistant or associate professor or the equivalent. -
2026 NetVUE Summer Seminar: Enhancing Vocational Exploration
This seminar, Enhancing Vocational Exploration, is designed to bring together a small group of educators who seek to contribute to the growing national conversation about vocation and calling. -
NetVUE Scriptural Reasoning Hub – Pacific Lutheran University
Back to NetVUE Events Evidence suggests that the practice of Scriptural Reasoning (SR) can be particularly useful in undergraduate settings as a tool for exploring questions of vocation; this complements its established use as a form of inter-religious engagement and cross-disciplinary study. NetVUE is developing a new nationwide program of Scriptural Reasoning for Vocation Reflection. […] -
2026 Workshop for Department and Division Chairs – Nashville, TN
CIC offers the annual Department and Division Chair Workshops to strengthen leadership at the departmental level. The workshops are designed to serve both experienced and new chairs of departments or divisions at independent colleges and universities. -
2026 NetVUE Summer Seminar: Institutional Leadership for Vocation
CIC is pleased to announce a new seminar for faculty members and staff who are serving in leadership roles at institutions that are members of its Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). This seminar, Institutional Leadership for Vocation, is designed to bring together a group of current leaders who are eager to explore how vocational exploration and discernment can play a greater role across campus, particularly in the work that these leaders do with members of the faculty and staff, but also in curricular and co-curricular programming for students. -
Teaching Interfaith Understanding
CIC and Interfaith America (IA) are hosting a multidisciplinary seminar on Teaching Interfaith Understanding for full-time faculty members at CIC member colleges and universities. This seminar, led by Laurie Patton, president of Middlebury College, and Eboo Patel, founder and president of Interfaith America, will examine the substantial theoretical questions inherent in teaching interfaith understanding and explore the practical work of translating these ideas into courses. -
2026 NetVUE Staff Seminar: Vocation Across Campus
Vocation Across Campus: Supporting Students’ Search for Meaning is designed for staff who direct campus programs or serve in other long-term administrative capacities, but who do not also hold faculty appointments. -
Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission 2026–2027
The Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program is designed for senior leaders at CIC member schools to explore their potential calling to serve as a college or university president. The program is designed to help participants explore their vocational calling, as well as examine what types of institutional missions they might best serve. -
Faculty Leadership Academy
The Faculty Leadership Academy is designed to support faculty members at CIC member colleges and universities who aspire to assume leadership roles in higher education—particularly those who have demonstrated a commitment to inclusive leadership. -
Vocation And Experiential Learning: The Call to Mentorship
Back to NetVUE Events When we invite students into meaningful mentoring relationships—whether in research labs, service experiences, congregational settings, career exploration, or beyond—we create transformative spaces for vocational discernment and discovery. Given the increasing importance of hands-on, immersive learning in undergraduate education and the vital need for human connection in our work, this gathering invites […] -
Telling Honest Stories as Calling in Higher Education
Back to NetVUE Events Guiding Questions In places all over our campuses, we are telling stories about who we are. From admissions to marketing to official histories, our institutions are constantly articulating the ways in which where we came from lays a foundation for where we are and where we will go. Inspired by St. Olaf […] -
2026 NetVUE Gathering at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting
Each year, NetVUE hosts a series of events for scholars in the fields of theology and religious studies at NetVUE member institutions prior to the Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature. -
Vocation and Whole Person Education in a Transactional Age
This NetVUE regional gathering will focus on exploring the future of higher education at the intersection of Whole Person Education and vocational formation. In a time of rapid technological change, this event will invite educators to reflect on how we can prepare students not just for careers, but for meaningful lives of service, purpose, and resilience. -
Encuentra: Explorations of Culture and Calling
Celebrating NetVUE’s new resource, Encuentra: Conversation Cards on Calling, Career, and a Life Well-Lived” this regional gathering explores and celebrates the role of culture in human experience and understanding of the world and one’s calling. Participant experience of the food, music, dance, art, and language of the diverse Hispanic, Latine, Latin American, and U.S. Latine cultures in Fresno and the surrounding communities frames sessions exploring the origin and unique contribution of these conversation cards, and how culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy can help foster vocational exploration and discernment. -
Vocation, Higher Education, and the Future: Imagining Possibilities, Cultivating Practices
Back to NetVUE Events Guiding Questions Join us in celebrating the launch of the new NetVUE Scholarly Resource Project book, Vocation, Higher Education, and the Future: Imagining Possibilities, Cultivating Practices. Participants will explore how institutions can foster meaningful vocational practices in a rapidly changing landscape. Through conversations with the book’s contributors and Wake Forest leaders, […] -
Roots, Branches, Leaves: Institutionalizing Vocational Discernment
This NetVUE regional gathering will focus on exploring the future of higher education at the intersection of Whole Person Education and vocational formation. In a time of rapid technological change, this event will invite educators to reflect on how we can prepare students not just for careers, but for meaningful lives of service, purpose, and resilience.
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