Last Updated: May 19, 2021
Note: some resources and links that were previously posted to this page have been removed, in order to allow space for newer, updated, or more relevant material to be added. View the archive to access previously-posted entries.
WEBINARS
Over the past year, NetVUE has hosted webinars addressing particular topics of interest and concern to the wider NetVUE community: “Theological Responses to the Pandemic” (June), “Fighting the Good Fight: Social Justice, Activism, and Vocation” (July), and “Courageous Texts, Courageous Teaching” (late July). During the fall, webinars included “Transitions: Navigating our Vocations in an Uncertain Present” (September) and “The Scientific Vocation in a Time of Crisis” (December). In March, the national “Unconference” brought together NetVUE colleagues in online settings and included a session on “Good Enough Pedagogy in a Time of Crisis.” Recordings of these webinars can be accessed through this link (please note that the link requires a log-in) and are also available through the NetVUE online library (see the “Digital Media” folder).
ZOOM CONVERSATIONS and workshops
NetVUE has been hosting conversations among administrators, faculty, and staff from the various campuses based on their role or portfolio. Thus far, gatherings have been hosted for chaplains, for directors and staff at centers for vocation and/or career services, and staff working in academic affairs or student affairs. Zoom has also enabled us to host online workshops. Diversity practitioner Nimisha Barton facilitated a workshop on “Bias, Privilege, and Educational Freedom” in October. The recording is available through the NetVUE online library (see the "Digitial Media" folder).
If you work at a NetVUE institution and would be interested in participating in (or facilitating) a conversation with colleagues in any of these areas (or others), please contact Lynne Spoelhof, NetVUE program manager, at
lspoelhof@cic.nche.edu.
VOCATION MATTERS
The
NetVUE blog includes posts related to themes of vocation in times of suffering and crisis.
View a (regularly updated) list of these resources. Here is a partial list of recent posts that specifically address vocation in a time of pandemic and social upheaval:
- Catherine Knott (Hanover College), Resting into Vocation
- Matthew Sayers (Lebanon Valley College), A Call for Empathy and Honesty
- Martha Stortz (Augsburg University), Vocation Virtually (series of reflections for a "v" portfolio)
- Esteban Loustaunau (Assumption University), Hope as the Will to Turn Things Upside Down
- Rethinking and Unlearning: Imagining New Ways of Being in Community, an interview with Nimisha Barton
- Courtney Dorroll (Wofford College), A Call for Care in the Academy
- Mindy Makant (Lenoir-Rhyne University), Of Casseroles and Community
- Jason Stevens (Cornerstone University), Hope, history, and the redress of vocation
- Anantanand Rambachan (St. Olaf College), Darshan: the challenges of seeing the divine in all
If you have written (or are currently writing) a piece that might be appropriate for the NetVUE blog, please email Hannah Schell, NetVUE online community coordinator, at
hschell@cic.nche.edu.
NETWORK ONLINE COMMUNITY: RESOURCES FOLDER
The NetVUE online community network now includes a folder for materials created by staff and faculty members at NetVUE campuses for use with students during the current pandemic. This folder is continually updated as materials are shared with us. The
NetVUE online community requires a login, but anyone who works at a NetVUE member institution can obtain credentials. Click on “Library” and open the folder titled “Discussion Board Documents” in order to access a folder marked “Pandemic-related.” If you know of something that might be usefully added to this folder, please send it to Hannah Schell at
hschell@cic.nche.edu. If you are not able to access the online library, please send your name, title, institution, email address, and phone number to Lynne Spoelhof at
lspoelhof@cic.nche.edu, and she will provide you with the information to retrieve login credentials.
WEBSITES, podcasts, AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES
These websites and communities are available elsewhere on the internet, and may be of interest to those who teach undergraduate students or work with them in areas related to vocational reflection and discernment:
ESSAYS, BLOG POSTS, and podcasts ELSEWHERE ON THE INTERNET
- Beckie Supiano, “Giving Students ‘Time and Space’ to Process,” Chronicle of Higher Education (May 6, 2021).
- Adam Grant, “There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing,” New York Times (April 22, 2021).
- Cia Verschelden, “A Hard Look at America: Confronting Our Problems Through the Learning Zone,” Liberal Education blog, AAC&U (April 15, 2021).
- David I. Smith, Students and Vocation in the Present Tense, Christian Scholar’s Review (April 14, 2021).
- Lilah Burke, “Navigating Grief and Memorials,” Inside Higher Ed (April 12, 2021).
- Daniel Lee Hill, “On Forming a More Perfect Union: How Can We Develop Character Required for Social Change?” Comment (April 1, 2021).
- Kate Bowler’s interview with Willie James Jennings on belonging, Everything Happens podcast (March 23, 2021).
- “Creative Maladjustment: How Not to Return to ‘Normalcy’ After the Pandemic,” webinar hosted by Gregory Wegner of the GLCA-GLAA (March 18, 2021).
- Jonathan Lear, “We Will Not Be Missed,” The Point Magazine (March 16, 2021)
- Christine Jeske, “Hard Work and the Good Life: A Vocation Audit for 2021,” Comment (March 4, 2021).