We are thrilled to announce that the Council of Independent Colleges has awarded the Wild Hope Center a NetVUE (Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education) Vocation Across the Academy Grant.

Our grant project aims to significantly expand PLU’s capacity for sustaining vocational exploration across the arc of a students collegiate experience through the creation of regularly offered, developmentally, scaffolded, credit-bearing courses of vocational exploration and will support the creation of courses on vocation in a variety of disciplines (departments): courses on creating a philosophy of life marked by a commitment to human flourishing and environmental sustainability, welcoming students and faculty to discern how a particular major can foster a life marked by purpose and meaning.

Meant To Live

A Wild Hope Microgrant Project

The Wild Hope Center for Vocation is funding proposals for a Meant to Live Grant. Endowed by a generous gift of the PLU Class of 1958, the Meant to Live events provide an opportunity to cultivate meaningful relationships between alumni and current students in order to assist them with their vocational discernment.

Proposals come from PLU departments and faculty, where they may select from a variety of project types that each aim to highlight alumni stories with regard to vocation while infusing creativity in presenting them. If chosen, Wild Hope will fully fund the needed expenses to fulfill the project to completion.

Learn more about Meant to Live

Throughout the seasons of the year, the Center helps students, staff, faculty, and alumni shape lives of meaning and purpose here in Parkland and throughout the world.

At PLU, vocation means being called with others to promote human and ecological flourishing.

Field trip for the PLU summer student-faculty researchers with the biology faculty to Owen Beach during a -3 low tide to see the life that is exposed, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. (Photo/John Froschauer) with Michael Behrens
Wild Hope Bjug Day