Upcoming Events
The Menu of Regional Gatherings for 2026–2027
NetVUE Regional Gatherings are smaller meetings of 60 to 100 people hosted by a NetVUE member institution. They offer important opportunities for members to learn with and from each other over the course of the academic year. At her first regional gathering, one participant shared her experience: “It’s a small conference, probably one of the smallest conferences I’ve ever been to, but it’s been one of the richest because of the content. To hear how another institution that’s like mine is handling and grappling with the same questions that I’m grappling with is so valuable.”
If you haven’t been to a regional gathering before and want to learn more about it, you can watch the video of a recent regional gathering at Hope College (MI).
Keep reading for a full list of the regional gatherings available in the 2026–2027 academic year or visit the NetVUE Events website for more information and to learn how to register. Events run from Thursday afternoon or evening through Saturday lunch, unless otherwise noted.
Vocation and Experiential Learning: The Call to Mentorship
September 24–26, 2026
Presbyterian College · Clinton, SC
Given the increasing importance of hands-on, immersive learning in undergraduate education and the vital need for human connection in our work, this gathering will invite faculty, staff, and administrators to consider how vocation, mentorship, and experiential learning intersect in higher education.
Telling Honest Stories as a Calling in Higher Education
October 11–13, 2026
St. Olaf College · Northfield, MN
This regional gathering examines how colleges tell honest stories about their place, their people, and their purposes. Together, participants will explore how honest storytelling can be a collaborative and college-wide process and imagine how these stories are integrated into larger narratives about their institutions.
Is Citizenship a Vocation? Loyalty, Protest, Advocacy
November 21–22, 2026
Pre-Conference Gathering at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting · Denver, CO
During NetVUE’s annual pre-conference gathering before the SBL and AAR Annual Meetings, participants will deliberate on the worth and limits of our vocation as citizens. NetVUE will also host a reception during the annual meetings and offer an SBL session on Timothy Beal’s When Time is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene. (Registration fee: $25)
Vocation and Whole Person: Education in a Transactional Age
December 3–5, 2026
AdventHealth University · Orlando, FL
This gathering will engage faculty, administrators, and mission leaders from a wide range of colleges and universities. Through shared learning, peer dialogue, and collaboration, participants will consider how institutions can nurture belonging, wellbeing, fulfillment, and purpose in students and educators alike.
Encuentra: Explorations of Culture and Calling
February 25–27, 2027
Fresno Pacific University · Fresno Pacific, CA
Drawing on NetVUE’s new Encuentra conversation cards, this regional gathering explores and celebrates the role of culture in human experience and understanding of the world and one’s calling. Participants will experience the food, music, dance, art, and language of the diverse Hispanic, Latine, Latin American, and U.S. Latine cultures in Fresno and the surrounding communities. These experiences will frame sessions that will help foster vocational exploration.
Vocation, Higher Education, and the Future: Imagining Possibilities, Cultivating Practices
March 11–13, 2027
Wake Forest University · Winston-Salem, NC
This gathering will celebrate the launch of the latest volume from the NetVUE Scholarly Resources Project, Vocation, Higher Education, and the Future: Imagining Possibilities, Cultivating Practices, which will appear in early 2027. The program includes conversations with the book’s contributors and other NetVUE leaders. Everyone who participates in this gathering will receive a free copy of the new book.
Roots, Branches, Leaves: Institutionalizing Vocational Discernment
May 20–22, 2027
Le Moyne College · Syracuse, NY
This regional gathering will use the story of Manresa, Le Moyne College’s vocational discernment program, as a model to help participants explore ways that they could further institutionalize their own vocational discernment efforts. Participants will leave this conference with concrete ideas and proven strategies that can deepen and strengthen their work with undergraduate students.
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