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, to the importance of cultivating resilience in our students, to the challenges of effecting change in our classrooms and our institutions. In this session, a contributor to one of the previous NetVUE volumes will interview VanLaningham and four of the authors who contributed to the forthcoming book, delving into their process of writing, the challenges that their own institutions are facing, and their common goal of looking into the future of higher education with imagination and hope. Ample time will be provided for questions from the audience.
Stephenie R. Chaudoir, Professor of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross (MA)
Lauren Kuykendall, Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, George Mason University (VA)
Richard J. (Rich) Meagher, Professor of Political Science and Director of Social Entrepreneurship, Randolph-Macon College (VA)
Richard P. Sévère, Dean, College of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences, Purdue University Northwest (IN)
Erin A. VanLaningham, Professor of English, Loras College (IA); NetVUE Director of Project Development
Interviewed by:
Robert Pampel, Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis (MO); NetVUE Grant Program Officer