2026 NetVUE Conference
Start Assembling Your Campus Team!
The 2026 NetVUE Conference is just months away. Join us in Kansas City, Missouri, March 19–21, to explore the conference theme: Vocation: An Itinerary of Hope for Higher Education. Norman Wirzba of Duke University will offer the opening keynote, and the closing plenary speaker will be Almeda Wright of Yale University. The conference will also feature four large-scale “quarter-plenaries” on issues that dominate the current headlines: academic advising, artificial intelligence, campus advocacy, and the challenges facing student athletes.
Member institutions are encouraged to offer proposals for sessions that describe vocation-related work on their own campuses in ways that may transfer to other NetVUE member institutions. If your institution has had great success (or difficult learnings!) in work that grew out of a NetVUE grant, regional gathering, seminar experience, or on-campus workshop or consultation, please follow these guidelines to submit a proposal for a campus-based session at the conference; the deadline for submitting your proposal is November 14, 2025.
In addition to concurrent workshops and campus-based sessions, one timeslot will be devoted to “NetVUE Opportunities,” with sessions focusing on the Big Read, Conversation Cards, Scriptural Reasoning, a new study of NetVUE outcomes, and a live taping of the NetVUE podcast, Callings. Smaller breakout sessions will provide opportunities for attendees to connect with colleagues in particular campus offices and programs: chaplains, student success staff, faculty members teaching in first-year programs or capstone courses, directors of academic pathway programs, senior administrators, and more.
If you are interested in being a part of your campus team and attending the conference, reach out to your NetVUE campus contact. To learn more about the conference, its schedule, and logistics, visit the 2026 NetVUE Conference website.
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