Center for Vocational Reflection

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

---

Fraternity Alumni Network

The Center for Vocational Reflection received a grant from the Lilly Endowment through St. John's University to initiate and implement a one-on-one networking program between current fraternity men and fraternity alumni. The program will be called Fraternity Alumni Network (FAN). The network aims to benefit students in their professional life as they seek employment after graduation and in their social life as they move into new communities. It will also help students engage in deeper vocational reflection while at Augustana. The Center welcomes Kevin Conte to head this program.

Vocor Award

---

Each year the Center for Vocational Reflection hosts the Vocor Award Essay contest which asks students to reflect upon their calling or vocation. For the 2008 Vocor Award, students were asked to address the following questions: "What do you see as the most pressing community issue of the next 50 years? How will you address it at Augustana and in your life?"  Augustana students adeptly addressed many issues, from environmental destruction to racism; from poverty to the loss of sustained community.  There were four winners, one for each class. Danielle Suits won for the class of '08, Gregory Fischer for the class of '09, William Hatchet for the class of '10, and Kennen Hootman for the class of '11. Congratulations to all the winners.