Connections: The NetVUE Newsletter

Exploring Our Callings to Higher Education | The NetVUE Big Read and Upcoming Webinar

NetVUE invites member institutions to join this year’s Big Read, which features Bonnie Miller-McLemore’s book, Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies About Calling. A nationally and internationally recognized leader in Christian theology and in

The Purposeful University | Regional Gathering – Bushnell 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.

Nominate (or be Nominated) for a 2026 Faculty or Staff Summer Seminar | Upcoming Opportunity

All nomination portals are now open for four different professional development seminars that will take place in 2026. These five-day seminars are designed to help educators support their institution and its students in the work of vocational exploration and discernment.

NetVUE Grants to Individuals | NetVUE Grant Opportunity

Until now, all NetVUE grants have been designed for broad institutional use. But this fall, a new program of grants is available to faculty members and staff: NetVUE Grants to Individuals for Vocational Exploration (note the appropriate acronym: GIVE!). Any full-time staff or

Writing Vocation—A Colloquy for Future Contributors | Call for Applications

NetVUE is pleased to offer another opportunity for colleagues who work at member institutions to develop their craft as writers. The second Writing Vocation Colloquy —which will take place January 16–18, 2026—will allow participants

Encuentra Conversation Cards are Here! | NetVUE Resources

¡Noticias emocionantes! Exciting news! NetVUE’s newest—and most unique—conversation cards are arriving this month. While foregrounding and celebrating Hispanic/Latine cultures, the Encuentra bilingual deck, in Spanish and English, encourages students from all

Scriptural Reasoning for Vocational Reflection | 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 from a range of religious traditions. This practice has consistently

The NetVUE Journal: A Call for Submissions | NetVUE Scholarship

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 so, please consider sharing your insights with the wider network by writing for NetVUE’s new journal,

A Reflection on the Hope College Regional Gathering: Integrating Vocation in the Academic Disciplines

In late May, Hope College in Holland, Michigan, hosted a NetVUE regional gathering on Integrating Vocation in the Academic Disciplines. This gathering was born out of Hope College’s NetVUE Vocation across the Academy grant, in which faculty members redesigned courses in nine different academic departments over the past few years.

Callings | The NetVUE Podcast

During late spring and throughout the summer, NetVUE’s podcast and blog continued to supply resources for its member institutions and for the general public. This edition of the newsletter includes a round-up of recent episodes and posts.

Vocation Matters | The NetVUE Blog

The NetVUE blog Vocation Matters has continued to be active during the summer months, continuing to drop new posts about once a week. Read more for a sample of the latest NetVUE blog posts from colleagues across the country.

Trying New Things: Mitchell College’s Grant Proposal of Experiments | Campus Spotlight

Mitchell College is a small institution with fewer than 600 students. In the past few years, the college has made significant changes to its first-year experience program— ranging from new courses, to faculty member engagement programs, to speaker events and mentoring initiatives (and much more).

Calling All Years Good | Book Review by John Peterson, Pepperdine University (CA)

With so much of our attention focusing on the periods of early and emerging adulthood, how might extending our vocational conversations to include the full scope of life stages add depth to our understanding? John Peterson (Westmont College) offers this review of

Don’t Forget to See Abundance (Even When It’s Scarce) | Closing Reflection by Daniel Meyers, NetVUE

What kind of scarcity are you thinking about most as we start a new academic year? Is it a scarcity of students enrolling at our institutions? A scarcity in the budget? A scarcity of the number of hours in each day or week? Entering this