November 2023

Agents of Repair: Norman Wirzba  Norman Wirzba’s research, writing, and teaching explores the overlap between theology and ecology, and addresses major environmental issues such as the climate crisis and food insecurity. In this conversation, we discuss aspects of agrarian living, freedom and fidelity, and the importance of kinesthetic learning. His emphasis on our relationship to […]

Toni Morrison and the Call to Imagine Kerry Hasler-Brooks (November 6, 2023)  “Many institutions offer (and market) curricular and co-curricular programming to prepare students with the necessary knowledge and skills—both the hard skills of the applied arts and the soft skills of the liberal arts—to contribute to the diverse professional contexts that they will enter […]

Our students always find it challenging to explore and discern their many callings in life, but their work becomes much harder when the news is saturated with reports of domestic and international tension, conflict, and war. How can we support students in this difficult time? In just a few days, NetVUE will present a webinar […]

The 2024 NetVUE Conference will take place March 21–23, 2024, at the Atlanta Hilton Downtown in Atlanta, Georgia. The cost for your institution’s first three team members—including registration, food, and lodging—is only $200 each, which represents a subsidy of about $1,000 per person. Up to two additional team members can participate at the regular conference cost.   […]

NetVUE is thrilled to announce the publication of the newest volume to emerge from the Scholarly Resources Project. Called Beyond Our Selves: Vocation and the Common Good, edited by Erin VanLaningham, is available now for pre-orders and will be shipped on January 10. This volume situates vocation within the context of the common good and […]

You may be surprised to learn that many vocation-specific tools are available to assess the progress of exploration and discernment programs on your campus. To make it easier to evaluate your efforts, NetVUE has gathered assessment resources that are specifically related to vocation; they are accessible through our new Resources for Assessing Vocation Website. This web resource […]

Simpson College: Making Mission into Method How can the wonderful ideals of an institutional mission be expressed through the teaching practices of faculty? What does it look like to incorporate an institutional core value into vocational reflection on campus?  A team from Simpson College accomplished these goals in just a few years through a NetVUE […]

by David Guthrie, NetVUE Grants Assessment Coordinator Explorations of vocation are commonly linked to questions such as “Who am I?” and “What am I to be and do?” Smith’s book invites readers to consider another vocation question, perhaps not as frequently intoned: “When am I?” That is, according to Smith, time—past, present, and future—inexorably shapes […]

Vocational Exploration and the Future  by Krista Hughes, Director of Resource Development for NetVUE Done well, vocational exploration raises questions of the past, the present, and the future. Superficial engagement with vocation tends to privilege the future: specifically and narrowly, future employment and financial security. Given the cost of higher education today and the economic precarity […]