CVIL

Center for Vocation and Integrative Learning

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CVIL challenges students to identify their vocation as global citizens and leaders through engagement, service, career development and reflection.

Among the services we provide are vocational exploration through volunteer service, civic engagement, service-learning, career counseling, internships, job, expos and fairs (job, graduate school, and volunteer). We provide ongoing alumni networking and support, as well as an extensive resources library for students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Encompassing many Simpson College offices, CVIL centralizes engagement, leadership development, and career advancement.

Vocational Exploration
"Vocation" comes from the Latin "vocare", to call, and means the life’s work a person is called to.  In the words of Frederick Buechner, vocation is “the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."  The Center for Vocation and Integrative Learning invites all members of the Simpson community to discover this place.  Learn more about the many vocational exploration opportunities at Simpson.

Integrative Learning
"Fostering students' abilities to integrate learning--over time, across courses, and between academic, personal, and community life--is one of the most important goals and challenges of higher education. The undergraduate experience is often a fragmented landscape of general education, concentration, electives, co-curricular activities, and for many students "the real world" beyond campus. An emphasis on integrative learning can help undergraduates find ways to put the pieces together and develop habits of mind that will prepare them to make informed judgments in the conduct of personal, professional, and civic life."(Carnegie Foundation)  Simpson provides numerous integrative learning opportunities, including, though not limited to the Simpson Urban Studies Institute (SUSI), study abroad, undergraduate research and a variety of cooperative learning and internship experiences.

Last Updated: 9/11/09