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The Center for Calling and Engagement encourages students, staff, faculty, and alumni to seek out how they are to live in this world, to accept and respond to the calling that is evident in the circumstances in which God has placed them.
Vocation is employing one's gifts and talents in a lifetime of doing what God has called one to do. "I have done what was mine to do, may Christ teach you yours" (St. Francis of Assisi) is the driving force behind vocation development at Stritch.
The Center for Calling and Engagement's programs and services nurture students, staff and faculty to reflect on their personal values, self-understanding, spiritual beliefs, and enhance their emotional development to discern their call through service-learning, reflection and mentoring.
A 2010 study, Spiritual Life of College Students: A National Study of College Students Search for Meaning and Purpose, conducted by UCLA found that while today's college freshmen expect universities to prepare them for employment and graduate education, they also have high expectations that college will help them develop emotionally and spiritually.
As a participating institution in the study it is imperative to note and reflect on the fact that:
About two-thirds (of college freshmen consider it "essential" or "very important" that their college enhance their self-understanding (69%), prepare them for responsible citizenship (67%), develop their personal values (67%), and provide for their emotional development (63%). Moreover, nearly half (48%) say that it is "essential" or "very important" that college encourage their personal expression of spirituality.