Engaging with Vocation on Campus

Karen Lovett is Director of Experiential Learning, University of Dayton, USA. Stephen Wilhoit is Professor of English and Co-director of the Vocation Implementation Team, University of Dayton, USA.

1: Introduction: An Institution-Wide Commitment to Vocation in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Stephen Wilhoit and Karen Lovett

Part 1: Transdisciplinary, Purpose-Based, and Community-Engaged Approaches to Vocation

2: A Transdisciplinary Journey of Vocational Reflection through Immersion Programs
Kelly Bohrer, Maria Ollier Burkett, Mary Niebler, Castel Sweet, and Matthew A. Witenstein

3: From Reflection to Action: Exploring Vocation through Life Design
Adrienne Ausdenmoore

4: Developing Vocational Wisdom Conducting Group History Projects: Learning the Personal Rewards and Social Benefits of Producing History
James Todd Uhlman

Part 2: Discovering the Call to Learn, Lead, and Serve through Experiential Learning

5: Helping Students Who Enter College with a Desire to Serve Discern Vocation: A Criminal Justice Studies Example
Martha H. Hurley and Stacey Siekman-Hall

6: Let us Sing to the Lord: Vocational Formation through the Undergraduate Music Minister Program
Scott T. Paeplow

Part 3: Educators Exploring their Own Callings and Building Supportive Environments for Vocation

7: The Teaching Gig: Journeys in Faith Traditions, Popular Fictions, and the Vocation of Learning
Elizabeth Ann Mackay

8: Vocation: Listening, Discerning, and Living
Elizabeth Pipoly Montgomery

9: Creating a Culture for Lifelong Vocational Discernment
Jennifer Dalton and Corinne M. Daprano

Part 4: Dialogue, Community-Building, and the Role of Peer Leaders in Vocation Education

10: Implementing Vocation Education through Peer Facilitation in a Residential Curriculum
Derek Goeglin, Keri L. Good, and Olivia Keithley

11: Integral Ecology, Living Our Questions, and an Expanded Community Vision: Nurturing Vocations in the Natural Sciences and Sustainability
Leanne M. Jablonski

Part 5: The Value of Vocational Discernment in Career Exploration

12: Building Bodies, Building Minds: Listening to the Call to Medical Service
Lis Regula

13: An Instrumental Approach to Teaching a Non-Instrumental View to Vocation within Business Schools: How Professional Credos Assist Working MBA Students Explore their Callings
Jay J. Janney and Della Stanley-Green

14: A Call for Ongoing Vocational Discernment in Graduate Health Science Programs
Joseph M. Day