Connections: The NetVUE Newsletter

Spotlight: Saint Anselm College and Salve Regina University

Colleagues who lead vocational initiatives at NetVUE member institutions sometimes feel isolated on their campuses. It’s easy for them to feel as though no one fully understands their role in designing and implementing these projects, often because they have no blueprint or instruction manual.

The NetVUE Big Read: Request Your Books and Join the Upcoming Webinar | Upcoming Webinar

Finding the time to organize meaningful professional development opportunities on campus can be challenging. NetVUE’s Big Read program provides an easy way to engage your campus in meaningful conversations about vocation.

Join Us for Upcoming Regional Gatherings | Upcoming Events

In a time of rapid technological change, educators and other higher education professionals need a space to reflect on how to best prepare students, not just for careers, but for meaningful lives of service, purpose, and resilience.

NetVUE Summer Seminars—Upcoming Nomination Deadlines | Upcoming Opportunities

NetVUE Summer Seminars bring together small groups of participants for intensive professional development in a setting marked by learning, conversation, and hospitality.

Develop Your Craft as a Writer: Applications Due October 30 for Writing Colloquy | Upcoming Opportunities

Participants in the NetVUE colloquy on Writing Vocation will become familiar with and better equipped to write about vocation in different contexts. 

Strengthen Your Vocational Initiatives through NetVUE’s Campus Visit Program | Upcoming Opportunities

As NetVUE member institutions develop their vocational programs, it can be helpful to encounter models of such programming directly—in person and in conversation with colleagues who have implemented them successfully.

The Latest Resources from NetVUE: Studies in Vocation and Calling Releases Second Issue

This year, NetVUE added an invaluable resource for educators to engage in deepening their understanding and practice of vocation—its journal Studies in Vocation and Calling.

The Latest Resources from NetVUE: Callings Podcast

With episodes released every month, NetVUE’s podcast continues to provide new invitations to reflect on and discuss vocational exploration with college students. Read below for descriptions of the first episodes of the seventh season.

The Latest Resources from NetVUE: Vocation Matters Blog

Readers looking for accessible and meaningful resources that reflect the latest insights on vocational exploration from colleagues across the network will find several recent posts on Vocation Matters well worth their time.

The Latest Resources from NetVUE: Topical Resource Guides

NetVUE Topical Guides are resources to support member institutions as they weave vocation into specific curricular and co-curricular offerings on their campuses.

The Latest Resources from NetVUE: Conversation Card Myths and Misconceptions

NetVUE Conversation Cards are one of NetVUE’s most popular ready-to-use resources. But how well do you know their ins and outs—and is your campus using them as effectively or as widely as it could be?

The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World | Book Review

Allison Pugh’s The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World gives readers a new way to describe familiar, but often overlooked, forms of human work.

Reciprocal Visibility and the Fullness of Vocation | Closing Reflection

The newsletter Feather Bricks was started during the pandemic so that professors who taught within Lewis University’s prison education program could stay in touch with students in maximum-security prison who were seeking an MA in restorative justice ministries.