Virtues & Vocations
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V&V is a forum hosted by the Institute for Social Concerns at Notre Dame about cultivating character in professional education. RT does not equal endorsement.
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In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Dr. Ricardo Nuila of Baylor College of Medicine reflects on the legacy of care passed down in his family and how his grandfather’s patient-first ethos shapes his work today.
Read the full article at: bit.ly/48ntMIk
Read the full article at: bit.ly/48ntMIk
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Dr. Ricardo Nuila of Baylor College of Medicine reflects on the legacy of care passed down in his family and how his grandfather’s patient-first ethos shapes his work today.
Read the full article at: bit.ly/48ntMIk
Read the full article at: bit.ly/48ntMIk
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Anna Moreland of @VillanovaU reflects on friendship, community, and the quiet, interior work of cultivating true leisure.
Read the full article in the Virtues & Vocations magazine at bit.ly/3WRpW3V
Read the full article in the Virtues & Vocations magazine at bit.ly/3WRpW3V
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Anna Moreland of @VillanovaU reflects on friendship, community, and the quiet, interior work of cultivating true leisure.
Read the full article in the Virtues & Vocations magazine at bit.ly/3WRpW3V
Read the full article in the Virtues & Vocations magazine at bit.ly/3WRpW3V
For our latest edition of the Virtues & Vocations magazine, we asked "What makes your work for meaningful?"
For education and artist Jason Wesaw, its born from love and visual arts. Read more at bit.ly/4opGxaZ
For education and artist Jason Wesaw, its born from love and visual arts. Read more at bit.ly/4opGxaZ
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For our latest edition of the Virtues & Vocations magazine, we asked "What makes your work for meaningful?"
For education and artist Jason Wesaw, its born from love and visual arts. Read more at bit.ly/4opGxaZ
For education and artist Jason Wesaw, its born from love and visual arts. Read more at bit.ly/4opGxaZ
Integrating Virtue Together is a community of practice for faculty across institutions and disciplines to cultivate virtues through a course in 2026-2027. Chosen faculty will attend a working conference at Notre Dame & receive a stipend. Full CFP: drive.google.com/file/d/1jA0o...
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Integrating Virtue Together is a community of practice for faculty across institutions and disciplines to cultivate virtues through a course in 2026-2027. Chosen faculty will attend a working conference at Notre Dame & receive a stipend. Full CFP: drive.google.com/file/d/1jA0o...
What makes an engineering job ethical?
In her latest for Virtues & Vocations, Rosalyn W. Berne calls on educators to help students articulate their values—and chart career paths that reflect them.
Read here: bit.ly/4nPe5z3
In her latest for Virtues & Vocations, Rosalyn W. Berne calls on educators to help students articulate their values—and chart career paths that reflect them.
Read here: bit.ly/4nPe5z3
October 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What makes an engineering job ethical?
In her latest for Virtues & Vocations, Rosalyn W. Berne calls on educators to help students articulate their values—and chart career paths that reflect them.
Read here: bit.ly/4nPe5z3
In her latest for Virtues & Vocations, Rosalyn W. Berne calls on educators to help students articulate their values—and chart career paths that reflect them.
Read here: bit.ly/4nPe5z3
In this clip from our latest Virtues & Vocations webinar, pediatric neurosurgeon David Sandberg, MD reflects on how he approaches difficult conversations — and how he trains future physicians to do the same with empathy, honesty, and care.
Watch now:
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Watch now:
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Virtues & Vocations presents "Having Difficult Conversations" with David Sandberg, MD
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October 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In this clip from our latest Virtues & Vocations webinar, pediatric neurosurgeon David Sandberg, MD reflects on how he approaches difficult conversations — and how he trains future physicians to do the same with empathy, honesty, and care.
Watch now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBx...
Watch now:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBx...
What are the virtues necessary to sustain the practice of medicine? Join us for a lively conversation about courage, love, compassion, and hope with David Sandberg, MD. There will be time for audience questions. Register: notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Virtues & Vocations presents David Sandberg, author of Brain and Heart. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
As part of the Virtues & Vocations series Conversations on Character & the Common Good, we are pleased to welcome David Sandberg, MD, author of Brain and Heart. This webinar will take place at noon Ea...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
What are the virtues necessary to sustain the practice of medicine? Join us for a lively conversation about courage, love, compassion, and hope with David Sandberg, MD. There will be time for audience questions. Register: notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Read the piece "What Makes Your Work Meaningful?" in the latest issue of Virtues & Vocations, including reflections from Rana Awdish, Angela Hubbard, Guru Madhavan, Maria F. Vazquez, and Jason Wesaw.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Read the piece "What Makes Your Work Meaningful?" in the latest issue of Virtues & Vocations, including reflections from Rana Awdish, Angela Hubbard, Guru Madhavan, Maria F. Vazquez, and Jason Wesaw.
socialconcerns.nd.edu/research/vir...
socialconcerns.nd.edu/research/vir...
“Wonder is not incidental to a life worth working—it is foundational.”
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Michelle Weise explores how courage and humility can build a meaningful working life – especially in "the messy middle" of things.
Read here: bit.ly/484o1jj
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Michelle Weise explores how courage and humility can build a meaningful working life – especially in "the messy middle" of things.
Read here: bit.ly/484o1jj
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Wonder is not incidental to a life worth working—it is foundational.”
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Michelle Weise explores how courage and humility can build a meaningful working life – especially in "the messy middle" of things.
Read here: bit.ly/484o1jj
In the latest Virtues & Vocations magazine, Michelle Weise explores how courage and humility can build a meaningful working life – especially in "the messy middle" of things.
Read here: bit.ly/484o1jj
Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education at @bostoncollege.bsky.social, reminds us:
“Our working lives are one of our best resources for figuring out who we are and what we stand for.”
Watch the clip: bit.ly/47VlWGb
“Our working lives are one of our best resources for figuring out who we are and what we stand for.”
Watch the clip: bit.ly/47VlWGb
Virtues & Vocations presents "Ways Work Shapes Who We Are" with Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins is the Chair of the Department of Formative Education at Boston College and the author of Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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September 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education at @bostoncollege.bsky.social, reminds us:
“Our working lives are one of our best resources for figuring out who we are and what we stand for.”
Watch the clip: bit.ly/47VlWGb
“Our working lives are one of our best resources for figuring out who we are and what we stand for.”
Watch the clip: bit.ly/47VlWGb
In our new edition of Virtues & Vocations, Zena Hitz challenges us to consider the meaning and value of work.
"Something seems to be wrong with the traditional argument of work and leisure."
Read more: bit.ly/4gsmaH3
"Something seems to be wrong with the traditional argument of work and leisure."
Read more: bit.ly/4gsmaH3
September 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In our new edition of Virtues & Vocations, Zena Hitz challenges us to consider the meaning and value of work.
"Something seems to be wrong with the traditional argument of work and leisure."
Read more: bit.ly/4gsmaH3
"Something seems to be wrong with the traditional argument of work and leisure."
Read more: bit.ly/4gsmaH3
We hope you will join us Monday Sept 22 at noon Eastern for a conversation with General Stanley McChrystal. There will be time for audience Q&A. Register: notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We hope you will join us Monday Sept 22 at noon Eastern for a conversation with General Stanley McChrystal. There will be time for audience Q&A. Register: notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
In this clip from our recent webinar, Guru Madhavan of The U.S. National Academy of Engineering challenges us to rethink where we find purpose in work:
“It is in this duty-bound, diligent, otherwise boring enterprise that keeps the world going.”
Watch now: bit.ly/3K6tMCU
“It is in this duty-bound, diligent, otherwise boring enterprise that keeps the world going.”
Watch now: bit.ly/3K6tMCU
Virtues & Vocations presents "Duty & Meaning in Work" with Guru Madhavan
Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs, U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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September 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
In this clip from our recent webinar, Guru Madhavan of The U.S. National Academy of Engineering challenges us to rethink where we find purpose in work:
“It is in this duty-bound, diligent, otherwise boring enterprise that keeps the world going.”
Watch now: bit.ly/3K6tMCU
“It is in this duty-bound, diligent, otherwise boring enterprise that keeps the world going.”
Watch now: bit.ly/3K6tMCU
The new issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing is here!
With beautiful art and thoughtful essays from educators, engineers, physicians & more, we're tackling the question of what makes work meaningful, ethical, and balanced.
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With beautiful art and thoughtful essays from educators, engineers, physicians & more, we're tackling the question of what makes work meaningful, ethical, and balanced.
bit.ly/41My74p
September 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The new issue of Virtues & Vocations: Higher Education for Human Flourishing is here!
With beautiful art and thoughtful essays from educators, engineers, physicians & more, we're tackling the question of what makes work meaningful, ethical, and balanced.
bit.ly/41My74p
With beautiful art and thoughtful essays from educators, engineers, physicians & more, we're tackling the question of what makes work meaningful, ethical, and balanced.
bit.ly/41My74p
Virtues & Vocations kicked off the semester with a fantastic conversation between Chris Higgins of @bostoncollege.bsky.social and Guru Madhavan of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering on meaningful work in today’s world.
Watch the full webinar here: bit.ly/4nj06kj
Watch the full webinar here: bit.ly/4nj06kj
Conversations on Character and the Common Good: "Meaningful Work"
Chris Higgins is the Chair of the Department of Formative Education at Boston College. Guru Madhavan is the Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs, U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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September 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Virtues & Vocations kicked off the semester with a fantastic conversation between Chris Higgins of @bostoncollege.bsky.social and Guru Madhavan of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering on meaningful work in today’s world.
Watch the full webinar here: bit.ly/4nj06kj
Watch the full webinar here: bit.ly/4nj06kj
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We are thrilled to kick off our monthly webinar series with two scholars who wrote for the latest issue of our magazine around the theme of meaningful work. Join us Aug 25 at noon. There will be time for audience questions. notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We are thrilled to kick off our monthly webinar series with two scholars who wrote for the latest issue of our magazine around the theme of meaningful work. Join us Aug 25 at noon. There will be time for audience questions. notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
To practice true generosity, we must start with ourselves.
Melissa Fitzpatrick writes on self-gift, radical hospitality, and the vocation of care – inward and outward – in Virtues & Vocations Magazine.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/4mqbURZ
Melissa Fitzpatrick writes on self-gift, radical hospitality, and the vocation of care – inward and outward – in Virtues & Vocations Magazine.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/4mqbURZ
August 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
To practice true generosity, we must start with ourselves.
Melissa Fitzpatrick writes on self-gift, radical hospitality, and the vocation of care – inward and outward – in Virtues & Vocations Magazine.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/4mqbURZ
Melissa Fitzpatrick writes on self-gift, radical hospitality, and the vocation of care – inward and outward – in Virtues & Vocations Magazine.
Read the full article here: bit.ly/4mqbURZ
We are thrilled to kick off our monthly webinar series with two scholars who wrote for the latest issue of our magazine around the theme of meaningful work. Join us Aug 25 at noon. There will be time for audience questions. notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
August 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We are thrilled to kick off our monthly webinar series with two scholars who wrote for the latest issue of our magazine around the theme of meaningful work. Join us Aug 25 at noon. There will be time for audience questions. notredame.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“With Google and then the emergence of AI, the old model of just conveying information was increasingly irrelevant and obsolete.”
Greg Jones, President of Belmont University, calls for a reimagining of education centered on character and formation.
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Greg Jones, President of Belmont University, calls for a reimagining of education centered on character and formation.
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Virtues & Vocations presents "The Purpose of Higher Education" with Greg Jones
A clip from our webinar with Belmont University president Greg Jones. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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August 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“With Google and then the emergence of AI, the old model of just conveying information was increasingly irrelevant and obsolete.”
Greg Jones, President of Belmont University, calls for a reimagining of education centered on character and formation.
Watch now:
Greg Jones, President of Belmont University, calls for a reimagining of education centered on character and formation.
Watch now:
Generosity is like a muscle -- it takes time and habit to grow.
In our Virtues & Vocations magazine, @snellherzog of @IUPhilanthropy explores how small acts of giving shape a life of purpose and contribution.
Read the full piece: bit.ly/4mfEJAt
In our Virtues & Vocations magazine, @snellherzog of @IUPhilanthropy explores how small acts of giving shape a life of purpose and contribution.
Read the full piece: bit.ly/4mfEJAt
August 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Generosity is like a muscle -- it takes time and habit to grow.
In our Virtues & Vocations magazine, @snellherzog of @IUPhilanthropy explores how small acts of giving shape a life of purpose and contribution.
Read the full piece: bit.ly/4mfEJAt
In our Virtues & Vocations magazine, @snellherzog of @IUPhilanthropy explores how small acts of giving shape a life of purpose and contribution.
Read the full piece: bit.ly/4mfEJAt
“We need to expose students to more real-life situations of human beings at work...”
Author & educator Parker Palmer reflects on why formation must go beyond the classroom — and into the dilemmas of daily life.
Watch now: bit.ly/40WccHw
Author & educator Parker Palmer reflects on why formation must go beyond the classroom — and into the dilemmas of daily life.
Watch now: bit.ly/40WccHw
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August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“We need to expose students to more real-life situations of human beings at work...”
Author & educator Parker Palmer reflects on why formation must go beyond the classroom — and into the dilemmas of daily life.
Watch now: bit.ly/40WccHw
Author & educator Parker Palmer reflects on why formation must go beyond the classroom — and into the dilemmas of daily life.
Watch now: bit.ly/40WccHw
“The U.S. is facing an epidemic of loneliness unparalleled in our country’s history.”
@Baylor professor Sarah A. Schnitker writes on disconnection, mental health, and the need to help students reconnect with one another and the transcendent.
Read more: bit.ly/4llBQN7
@Baylor professor Sarah A. Schnitker writes on disconnection, mental health, and the need to help students reconnect with one another and the transcendent.
Read more: bit.ly/4llBQN7
August 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“The U.S. is facing an epidemic of loneliness unparalleled in our country’s history.”
@Baylor professor Sarah A. Schnitker writes on disconnection, mental health, and the need to help students reconnect with one another and the transcendent.
Read more: bit.ly/4llBQN7
@Baylor professor Sarah A. Schnitker writes on disconnection, mental health, and the need to help students reconnect with one another and the transcendent.
Read more: bit.ly/4llBQN7
“The liberal arts is not learning for learning's sake—it's learning to live a life of meaning and contribution.”
Clayton Spencer, former president of Bates College, on why we must embrace the deeper value of liberal arts education.
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Clayton Spencer, former president of Bates College, on why we must embrace the deeper value of liberal arts education.
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Virtues & Vocations presents "Learning to Live a Life of Meaningful Contribution" w/ Clayton Spencer
A clip from our webinar with former Bates College president Clayton Spencer. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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August 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“The liberal arts is not learning for learning's sake—it's learning to live a life of meaning and contribution.”
Clayton Spencer, former president of Bates College, on why we must embrace the deeper value of liberal arts education.
bit.ly/3U8CgLJ
Clayton Spencer, former president of Bates College, on why we must embrace the deeper value of liberal arts education.
bit.ly/3U8CgLJ
What if we viewed education not as a transaction, but as an act of generosity?
Laurie L. Patton explores how reframing education this way might transform how we relate—to ourselves, and to others.
Read more at our Virtues & Vocations magazine: bit.ly/45qIpZU
Laurie L. Patton explores how reframing education this way might transform how we relate—to ourselves, and to others.
Read more at our Virtues & Vocations magazine: bit.ly/45qIpZU
July 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
What if we viewed education not as a transaction, but as an act of generosity?
Laurie L. Patton explores how reframing education this way might transform how we relate—to ourselves, and to others.
Read more at our Virtues & Vocations magazine: bit.ly/45qIpZU
Laurie L. Patton explores how reframing education this way might transform how we relate—to ourselves, and to others.
Read more at our Virtues & Vocations magazine: bit.ly/45qIpZU
We train students for work — but do we help them ask what work is worth doing?
Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education @bostoncollege.bsky.social ege, challenges us to consider what’s missing in our approach to vocational formation.
Watch now: bit.ly/4m7QSaF
Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education @bostoncollege.bsky.social ege, challenges us to consider what’s missing in our approach to vocational formation.
Watch now: bit.ly/4m7QSaF
Virtues & Vocations presents "Vocational Formation" with Chris Higgins
Chris Higgins is the Chair of the Department of Formative Education at Boston College and the author of Undeclared: A Philosophy of Formative Higher Education. Virtues & Vocations is a national forum for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education. Virtues & Vocations hosts faculty workshops and monthly webinars, and engages issues of character, professional identity and moral purpose through our publications. virtuesvocations.org
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July 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We train students for work — but do we help them ask what work is worth doing?
Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education @bostoncollege.bsky.social ege, challenges us to consider what’s missing in our approach to vocational formation.
Watch now: bit.ly/4m7QSaF
Chris Higgins, Chair of the Department of Formative Education @bostoncollege.bsky.social ege, challenges us to consider what’s missing in our approach to vocational formation.
Watch now: bit.ly/4m7QSaF