Our Mission

The Augustana College Center for Vocational Reflection helps students recognize who they are called to be. Vocation is recognized when one's skills, gifts, and talents combine with one's passions to meet the needs of the community. The Center works to create times and spaces for one's vocation to be discerned.

What's Happening

32 Servant Leader Interns This Year

This year the CVR helped 31 students discover more about who they are called to be through internships at non-profit, government, or religious organizations. 12 students reflected on their vocation during the school year, and 19 students are on internship this summer. Through international and national opportunities, students are living out their vocations today. Check out 2009 graduate Caitlin Leeney's story about her Servant Leader Internship!

Sweet Escape CVRnival Style!

Celebration of Learning Reflective Essay Winners 

Seniors Melissa Johansen and Jaime Fialek were honored at the Celebration of Learning for their reflection essays and awarded with $250 and $100 respectively.  These essays were selected from a pool of participants who chose to go the extra mile and submit a personal reflection concerning how their Celebration of Learning project or presentation impacted their understanding of their vocation. 

Ms. Johansen, who studied mental health services for Latinos in the US, stated, "While this project did not provide me with any clear answers on what exactly I am called to do, it certainly helped strengthen my sense of who I am called to be. I am a person who deeply cares about the well being of all people and therefore I am concerned about injustices exist in the world."  Read her essay here.

Ms. Fialek, whose investigation of the literature and art of Martinique, a Francophone island in the Caribbean sea led her to apply and be accepted for Teach for America said, "My research, along with my newfound calling, urged me not only to understand but to confront issues of race in America.  I felt personally fulfilled, and yet not satisfied. More than anything, my research was a starting point, a vital step for me before jumping into an inner city classroom." Read her essay here.

The CVR thanks the many students who submitted essays for their great reflection.