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This seminar, offered in partnership with Interfaith America (IA) is designed to increase faculty members’ knowledge, broaden their perspective, and strengthen their teaching of interfaith understanding.

The Senior Leadership Academy is a year-long program for mid-level administrators in higher education who aspire to senior leadership positions in independent colleges or universities.

The purpose of this grant program is to enable institutions to produce an updated account of their history and mission in light of their current context. Grants may be requested in amounts ranging up to $60,000 for use over three years. Applications for the current round of Grants for Reframing the Institutional Saga are due by August 8, 2025.

This seminar, Enhancing Vocational Exploration, is designed to bring together a small group of educators who seek to contribute to the growing national conversation about vocation and calling. The participants in this seminar will bring to the table their experiences with vocation on their own campuses, whether in teaching, research, writing, service, or inter-office cooperation. Any member of the staff or faculty at a NetVUE member institution is eligible to be nominated for the seminar. The nomination deadline for this seminar is September 26, 2025.

Teaching Vocational Exploration is for full-time faculty members in all fields at colleges and universities that are members of the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). The seminar is designed for early- to mid-career faculty members at the rank of assistant or associate professor or the equivalent. Participants will learn to strengthen the teaching of vocational exploration by probing a variety of understandings of vocation and their importance in educating undergraduates, by developing new courses or course materials or redesigning existing courses, and by establishing a broader network of faculty members committed to teaching vocational exploration. The nomination deadline for this seminar is September 26, 2025.

The Institutional Leadership for Vocation seminar is designed to bring together a group of current leaders who are eager to explore how vocational exploration and discernment can play a greater role across campus, particularly in the work that these leaders do with members of the faculty and staff, but also in curricular and co-curricular programming for students. Participants in this seminar will have the opportunity to reflect on their vocational path into leadership and how that informs the way they seek to continue to lead. The deadline for nominations is November 21, 2025.

Vocation Across Campus: Supporting Students’ Search for Meaning is designed for staff who direct campus programs or serve in other long-term administrative capacities, but who do not also hold faculty appointments. Participants will have the opportunity to learn more about vocation and its importance for undergraduate students, to develop or revise programming or initiatives to support vocational exploration, and to cultivate a broader network of colleagues committed to supporting students’ work in this area. The nomination deadline for this seminar is November 21, 2025.

Program Development Grants are intended to deepen, expand, refresh, or otherwise strengthen vocational exploration programs that are already underway and supported by NetVUE member colleges and universities. The current round of Program Development Grants are due November 21, 2025.

Back to NetVUE Opportunities The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is pleased to announce the first summer seminar for full-time staff in all campus offices and divisions at colleges and universities that are members of CIC’s Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE). Vocation Across Campus: Supporting Students’ Search for Meaning is designed for staff […]

This program is designed to assist prospective presidents, along with their spouses or partners, to clarify their own sense of personal vocation, and to weigh it in the context of the missions of the institutions they might lead in the future.

NetVUE Professional Development Awards may be requested in amounts up to $20,000 for use over one year for professional development activities that enhance the knowledge, skills, and expertise of faculty and staff members who play important roles in undergraduate vocational initiatives.

The purpose of this grant program is to help colleges and universities develop more effective ways to strengthen the link between these two purposes of undergraduate education. NetVUE Vocation across the Academy Grants provide three years of grant funding of up to $150,000 for projects that are four years in duration. Applications for the current round of Vocation across the Academy Grants are due by April 4, 2025.

This grant program provides funding to develop or extend programming for students, and/or professional development for faculty members and staff, with the goal of connecting students to local faith communities and supporting these students as they explore and discern their callings.