Learning and Networking | Studies in Vocation and Calling

Coming soon! The inaugural issue of Studies in Vocation and Calling, NetVUE’s new journal, will be released in March in both print and digital formats. Filled with scholarly articles, narrative reflections, and reviews of books and other resources (including elements of popular culture), it offers something for everyone. Be on the lookout for its arrival on your campus and in your inbox. The first issue includes introductions to the new publication from David Cunningham, NetVUE executive director, who serves as editor-in-chief, and from the journal’s managing director, Krista Hughes, NetVUE director of resource development. Erin VanLaningham, NetVUE director of project development, manages the book and resource reviews.

To whet your appetite, here’s what you’ll see in Volume 1, Issue 1:

• Richard J. Meagher, “More Than a Mind Factory”: Vocation in Defense of Higher Education
• Agnes Howard, Natality and Vocation
• John Barton, Higher Vocation(s): A Case Study and Taxonomy for Christian Institutions in the Twenty-First Century
• John Peterson, From Individual to Communal: Vocational Mentoring and Jayber Crow
• Thomas Albert Howard, Travel as a Liberal Art
• Robert Pampel, Vocational Thinking: Reflections on Finding Meaning in Times of Professional Change
• L. Kay Webb and Amanda Jo Slone, Exploring Vocation through Faculty, Staff, and Student Engagement

You’ll also find reviews of Follow Your Bliss and Other Lies About Calling, Hacking College, How to End Christian Nationalism, Lost in Ideology, and Love’s Braided Dance, as well as a review of the popular television series The Bear.  

In the meantime, plans for the second issue and beyond are already in process, and the editors would love your involvement; manuscript submissions are considered on a rolling basis. Authors should submit their manuscript no later than February 1 to be considered for inclusion in that year’s fall issue, and no later than August 1 for the following year’s spring issue. You can learn more on the Studies in Vocation and Calling website; for questions not answered there, reach out to Krista Hughes, managing editor, at khughes@cic.edu.