A NetVUE Vocation Exploration Renewal Grant will help Wartburg College deepen vocation exploration among the college’s American ethnic students in 2016-17.
The $17,665 grant will pay for diversity and inclusion training for faculty and staff, a mentoring program that will connect American ethnic students to vocation mentors in the Cedar Valley and informal dinnertime gatherings where students can talk openly about meaning, purpose and faith. More than 160 American students of color were enrolled at Wartburg during the 2015-16 school year.
“Vocation exploration at Wartburg happens across the campus in many ways, but we knew there were ways in which we could better support our American ethnic students as they explored meaning, faith and purpose in their lives,” said the Rev. Ramona Bouzard, Wartburg’s Herbert and Cora Moehlmann Chaplaincy Endowed Chair.
Bouzard, Krystal Madlock, director of student diversity programs, and T.J. Warren, Pathways associate for vocation and mentoring, worked with students to develop the grant proposal.
“The students were articulate, honest and helpful in putting forward ways in which Wartburg could strengthen our work of exploring vocation with students,” Bouzard said. “I can’t wait to discover what we gain from the experiences and shared conversation as we learn about diversity and inclusion needs on campus.”
NetVUE Vocation Exploration Renewal Grants are intended to renew, refocus and strengthen intellectual and theological exploration by undergraduate students at institutions that already have made substantial and long-term investments in these initiatives . The grant was funded through a gift to the Council of Independent Colleges from Lilly Endowment Inc.
The $17,665 grant will pay for diversity and inclusion training for faculty and staff, a mentoring program that will connect American ethnic students to vocation mentors in the Cedar Valley and informal dinnertime gatherings where students can talk openly about meaning, purpose and faith. More than 160 American students of color were enrolled at Wartburg during the 2015-16 school year.
“Vocation exploration at Wartburg happens across the campus in many ways, but we knew there were ways in which we could better support our American ethnic students as they explored meaning, faith and purpose in their lives,” said the Rev. Ramona Bouzard, Wartburg’s Herbert and Cora Moehlmann Chaplaincy Endowed Chair.
Bouzard, Krystal Madlock, director of student diversity programs, and T.J. Warren, Pathways associate for vocation and mentoring, worked with students to develop the grant proposal.
“The students were articulate, honest and helpful in putting forward ways in which Wartburg could strengthen our work of exploring vocation with students,” Bouzard said. “I can’t wait to discover what we gain from the experiences and shared conversation as we learn about diversity and inclusion needs on campus.”
NetVUE Vocation Exploration Renewal Grants are intended to renew, refocus and strengthen intellectual and theological exploration by undergraduate students at institutions that already have made substantial and long-term investments in these initiatives . The grant was funded through a gift to the Council of Independent Colleges from Lilly Endowment Inc.