Callings
Conversations on college, career, and a life well-lived. “Callings” explores what it means to live a life defined by a sense of meaning and purpose. It focuses on the process of exploring and discerning one’s vocation, with particular emphasis on mentoring and supporting undergraduate students as they navigate college, career, and a life-well lived. Hosted by the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE).
Callings
Hope Circuits: Jessica Riddell
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Jessica Riddell is committed to cultivating hope in higher education. Her book, Hope Circuits: Rewiring Universities and Other Systems for Human Flourishing, offers innovative tools for educators that include stories of luminaries and a reconsideration of the assumptions with which we often operate. As such, Riddell helps us come to a clearer understanding of systems of governance, leadership, and institutional culture so that everyone in the university can flourish. In this episode, Riddell describes her own process of discovery and exploration that makes the book both a “love letter” to higher education and a challenge to reimagine our callings to support necessary change. Her goal is to move us from “nope” to “hope,” and encourage us to imagine renewal as a kind of rewiring rather than demolition.