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Back to NetVUE Connections NetVUE Resources Encuentra Conversation Cards Are Here! ¡Noticias emocionantes! Exciting news! NetVUE’s newest—and most unique—conversation cards are arriving this month. While foregrounding and celebrating Hispanic/Latiné cultures, the Encuentra bilingual deck, in Spanish and English, encourages students from all backgrounds to consider how their cultural roots shape their identity, commitments, relationships, and […]

Back to NetVUE Connections Upcoming Webinar Scriptural Reasoning for Vocational Reflection: Training Hubs and Upcoming Webinar In 2025, NetVUE successfully launched a new initiative: Scriptural Reasoning for Vocational Reflection. The practice of Scriptural Reasoning (SR) is designed to provide space for small groups of people to sit together to read and reflect on sacred texts […]

Back to NetVUE Connections NetVUE Scholarship The NetVUE Journal: A Call for Submissions Are you currently puzzling over a fresh concept or idea related to vocation? Is your campus doing innovative work in how it equips students to explore calling? Have you encountered an unexpected resource for doing vocational work with students or colleagues? If […]

Back to NetVUE Connections Upcoming Gathering Regional Gathering at Bushnell University: The Purposeful University Join us October 2–4, 2025, at Bushnell University in Eugene, Oregon, for The Purposeful University, a NetVUE regional gathering focused on institutional vocation and purpose in the evolving landscape of U.S. higher education. This gathering will explore the unique calling of […]

Back to NetVUE Connections Studies in Vocation and Calling (SVC) is now receiving manuscript proposals and expects to publish its first issue in early Spring 2026!  SVC is an open-access journal that advances scholarly study and professional practice related to the role of vocation and calling in higher education. Appearing twice annually, both online and in […]

Back to NetVUE Connections Extra decks (beyond the 16 available free to each campus) of the newest NetVUE Conversation Cards, Envision, can be ordered for a discounted price of $5.94 (plus shipping), but only through May 31. If your campus is interested, speak to your Campus Contact about ordering decks for your institution.  If you […]

Back to NetVUE Connections NetVUE institutions seek to provide students with the capacity to live into their callings—and that requires not only professional preparation but also a broad liberal-arts education, preparing students for lives of meaning, purpose, and flourishing. Many NetVUE members have found ways to make these opportunities available to a wider range of […]

Back to NetVUE Connections By Janet Nava Cardenas Assistant Director of Student Employment & Career Education, Mount Saint Mary’s University (CA) My favorite memory with my abuelita (grandmother) is from when I was very young. I remember grinding maize outside in the molino (grinder) that was built into the outdoor kitchen until my weak little […]

Back to NetVUE Connections By Krista Hughes NetVUE Director of Resource Development In late February, Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, hosted a NetVUE Regional Gathering, “Vocation and the Common Good: The Call of Belonging in Community.” Inspired by the most recent NetVUE Scholarly Resource Project volume Called Beyond Our Selves: Vocation and the Common […]

Back to NetVUE Connections Reviewed by Justin Klassen Associate Professor of Theology, Bellarmine University It feels increasingly urgent to talk with students about habits of attention. Too often, though, educators find themselves simply rehearsing complaints about the deficiencies in students’ ability to read and to produce academic writing. Chris Hayes’s new book, The Sirens’ Call: […]