Sessions

The forthcoming fifth volume from the NetVUE Scholarly Resources Project is tentatively titled Vocation, Higher Education, and the Future: Imagining Possibilities, Cultivating Practices. The book’s editor, Erin VanLaningham, assembled a team of 12 educators to write chapters on topics ranging from the importance of the virtue of hope, to the relationship of vocation and politics, […]

Join us for further conversation with keynote speaker Norman Wirzba. The first part of the session with be devoted to a facilitated conversation with Wirzba, focusing not only on the themes raised in his keynote address, but also on his writings in important texts such as Love’s Braided Dance (Yale, 2024), Agrarian Spirit (Notre Dame, 2022), and […]

Integrating vocation into first-year programming is appealing to many NetVUE leaders, given that it provides a means for reaching all incoming students at the same time and for getting early buy-in for vocation-related practices. On the other hand, NetVUE has heard from many institutions about the challenges—and even some disadvantages—involved in robust vocation programming in […]

In his chapter for the forthcoming NetVUE volume, Andy Chan calls us to rethink the work of the traditional college “career services” office. While many students (and most of their parents) think of that office as a job placement center, its true mission is to help students recognize how their entire college education, in all its […]

College chaplains and mission officers play an important role at many NetVUE institutions. Whether those institutions are faith-based, denominationally aligned, or wholly secular, they all recognize the importance of attending to the spiritual and religious lives of their students, and to the existential questions that undergraduates so often face. In addition, colleagues in these roles […]

What does it look like for leaders—across all campus offices and academic departments—to strengthen their institution’s work in vocational exploration and discernment? Whether through the initiatives they launch or alongside the people for whom they have responsibility, staff and faculty members have rich opportunities to lead vocation-related work on campus. Participants in this workshop will […]

This session explores how NetVUE programming—including summer seminars, campus consultations, and workshops—can help embed vocational exploration in the fabric of an institution’s culture. Drawing on personal experience on their campus and their own engagement with NetVUE programming, presenters will explore practical strategies for integrating vocation across campus. This workshop, designed primarily for senior administrative leaders, […]

The Educating Character Initiative (ECI), a project of the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University (NC), aims to equip institutions of higher education to integrate character education into their distinctive institutional contexts, curricula, and cultures. Some longstanding NetVUE institutions have recently received grants from (or have begun working with) ECI. During this […]

Join colleagues from one of seven available campus roles.