Curriculum & Advising

For Faculty and Staff

"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.'"
– Toni Morrison

Teaching for vocation is a community project at CMU. CMU education is 'education for vocation' through which students are called to work and to career paths that are both meaningful to them, needed in our communities, and helpful to the earth and its creatures.

This is an education that:

• equips students to understand how people and communities' flourish in healthy ways
• is attentive to the diverse callings that students answer whether in church, non-profit, or for-profit sectors
• nurtures wisdom and capacities for good through all forms of endeavor and work in the world

This means that we need a collaborative framework and vocabulary for how we approach working with students in our individual advising and as we explicitly integrate vocational reflection into our courses and curriculum. 

As you work with and advise students, we invite you to engage with the resources we have collected here as a starting point for discussion and deepening your approach to asking meaningful questions and connecting students to other resources and possibilities.

NetVUE's Vocation Matters blog, which includes contributions from member schools and takes an interdisciplinary approach to engaging with questions of vocation. 

Career Guidance for Social Justice, a UK-based blog managed by the writers of the Routledge book Career Guidance for Social Justice, Contesting Neoliberalism. 

CERIC's website, which is our Canadian organization dedicated to the advancement of career development, in particular their guide for working with post-secondary students. Additionally, CERIC regularly offers both paid and free webinars on various topics related to career development.

For research on career development, vocational discernment, and work-integrated learning, we recommend The Canadian Journal of Career Development and the Work-integrated Learning Community Support and Research Portal.

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