Vocation as an Institutional Learning Goal
Overview
Vocation is more than an Institutional Learning Goal at the University. Our efforts are built around a shared understanding of vocation. By pursuing their vocations, people define their life’s purpose.
Faculty, staff, and students across the university collaborate in vocation conversations, workshops, events and educational programs designed to guide all members of our community through a process of vocational discernment.
One Call
to discover your unique gifts and employ them in service for the common good.
Many Opportunities
to discern and act on your vocation in ways that are personally satisfying and bring meaning to your life.
Vocation spans both academic curriculum and experiential learning programs. Faculty, staff and students across all units and areas of the university are involved in vocation conversations, workshops, events, and educational programs.
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Students, faculty, and staff can apply for mini-grants up to $1,000 to support the design and development of programs, activities, and events both inside and beyond the classroom that offer students opportunities to explore, discern and act on their vocations.
Application & Awardees
Workshops and retreats are facilitated each semester to promote vocation engagement. Faculty and Staff reflect on and share their callings as educators, explore connections between their callings and work at UD, and identify strategies for living their callings more fully.
BrowseLanguage of Vocation
The Vocation HIR Fellows share the results of their research and discussions identifying opportunities to meet the vocation learning outcome.
White PaperVocation Resources
First-Year Vocational Exploration
- Vocation SLOs for UD's FYE program
- Assessment Rubric: UD's First Year Vocation SLOs
- Planning Guide: Addressing Vocation SLOs in a First-Year Course or Program
- Planning Checklist: Meeting FYE Vocation SLOs
- Worksheet: Developing Assignments, Activities and Pedagogies for UD's First-Year Vocation SLOs
General Use
Vocation in Curriculum
A library of video resources to guide UD students, faculty, staff, and administrators in discussions about what vocation means at the University of Dayton and to reflect on their own vocational journeys.
The Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center offers a large and growing collection of books addressing vocation faculty and staff can consult to learn more about the topic, support their efforts to discussion vocation with students, and better understand their own life callings.
List of Current Titles