October 2023

The fall season of NetVUE’s blog, Vocation Matters, is underway!   The slate of new bloggers includes Kerry Hasler-Brooks, associate professor of English and chair of the department of language, literature and writing at Messiah University, whose first post is titled, “Seeking the Irrelevant.”  Justin Klassen, associate professor of theology and religious studies at Bellarmine […]

At the heart of Paul Hanstedt’s recent book, Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World, is the big idea that professors need to find ways in their courses to help students claim authority over their learning. And there is no time to waste.  Hanstedt argues in the book, published by Stylus in 2018, that our […]

NetVUE will host the premier national gathering on vocation and calling in higher education in Atlanta on March 21–23, 2024. The lineup of plenary speakers and concurrent sessions was recently announced at the link below. Because the Conference is funded through NetVUE dues, each member institution can send a three-person team for a nominal registration fee of […]

A group of scholars whose work appears in the forthcoming NetVUE volume, Called Beyond Our Selves: Vocation and the Common Good (Oxford UP), will present at a conference at Baylor University in October. Geoffrey Bateman (Regis University), Christine Jeske (Wheaton College), and David Timmerman (Carthage College) will be joined by Erin VanLaningham, editor of the […]

Having just hit the milestone of 7,500 downloads, the NetVUE podcast Callings is poised to kick off the fourth season! We are excited to share the fall lineup, which will include theologian Norman Wirzba from Duke Divinity School, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, educational philosopher Parker Palmer, and Shirley Hoogstra, who is the president of the […]

NetVUE will host an AAR/SBL pre-conference meeting on the theme of “Vocation and/as the Work of Our Hands” during November 16-17. Aligning with the 2023 AAR theme (“La Labor de Nuestras Manos”) and building on previous NetVUE pre-conference meetings, this event will consider how our work, as educators in the field of religious studies and […]

Proposals are currently being accepted for NetVUE’s newest grant program, which provides support for Fostering Leadership for Communities of Faith. These grants provide up to $40,000 over two years; proposals are due by December 15. For eligible member institutions, it is a perfect time to begin thinking about grant opportunities. NetVUE will soon invite proposals […]

Did you beat the heat watching one of the summer’s Blockbusters? Check out the recording of our recent webinar on Vocation in Film – Finding Meaning at the Movies. This webinar discussed the vocational elements in four current films: Oppenheimer, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Barbie, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. Film, […]

By Daniel Meyers, NetVUE Online Network Coordinator  Last spring, I was invited into a course on wellbeing, and the professor asked me to facilitate a discussion on values. I began with a standard values activity where students sort through a deck of values in three distinct steps, a process I have found to be very […]

In today’s world of technology and virtual meetings, why would you ever actually go somewhere else to learn new ideas, practices, and insights? We put this question to two participants in the NetVUE Campus Visit Program, Kristen Cahoon, director of the Piper Center for Vocation and Career at St. Olaf College, and the Rev. Peter […]