W. Carter Aikin

Carter Aikin serves as the NetVUE grant director, with primary responsibility for administering CIC’s wide array of NetVUE grant programs. He is based at Blackburn College in central Illinois, where he also serves as a professor of philosophy and religion. Over the course of his academic career, he has led vocational initiatives at three different NetVUE member institutions. Carter also served as a NetVUE campus consultant from 2010 through 2023, specializing in helping institutions to develop interdisciplinary vocational exploration initiatives with a focus on curriculum development–a passion reflected in his own classroom instruction. He holds a BA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, an MDiv from Duke University Divinity School, and a PhD in Moral Theology from the University of Notre Dame.