Callings: Fostering Vocation Through Community-based Learning

Posted by on November 10, 2006

Web-based Conversation and Academic Conference
Callings: Fostering Vocation Through Community-based Learning

A national conference sponsored by the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education at Santa Clara University

This conference and the Web-based conversation leading up to it will provide a space where academic and community colleagues can explore the impact community engagement can have on students? sense of what to do with their lives, and how they might encourage reflection on where their gifts and desires meet the world?s needs. Along with speakers and paper presentations, the conference will provide ample opportunity for workshops and informal conversation.

The Ignatian Center has supported community-based learning both locally and internationally for more than 20 years. In 2002, with a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., the Ignatian Center launched the DISCOVER project to encourage reflection on vocation across the campus.We have found that opportunities in the community provide students with rich experiences for reflecting on their place in the world and what the future may hold for them. We welcome the opportunity to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore these questions more deeply.

Join a public forum on how to educate students to respond constructively to society?s challenges, to dedicate themselves to the common good.

Phase One: Web-based Conversation
September 15, 2006 – March 15, 2007

Phase Two: Three-day Academic Conference
March 15-17, 2007

For information: Nikole Nichols (408) 551-1951 nnichols@scu.edu

http://www.scu.edu/ignatiancenter/cblconf/cblconf.cfm