NetVUE Consultant Profiles - Carter Aiken, Julie Massey, Bill Millard ...

NetVUE Consultant ProfilesCarter AikinCarter Aikin has directed vocational exploration programs at CIC colleges since 2006, and has been acampus consultant for NetVUE since 2010. Currently, Carter is the Chair of Philosophy and Religion atBlackburn College in Carlinville, IL, where he is working to integrate Blackburn’s new vocation initiativewith its religious heritage and its longstanding identity as one of the nation’s historic work colleges.Previously he served as Director of the Center for Vocation, Faith, and Service at Hastings College and asAssistant Director of the vocation initiatives at Hanover College. In addition to his experience as a facultymember and program director, Carter has helped colleges and universities across the country designprograms that draw from NetVUE “best practices” adapted to each unique heritage, mission, vision, andneed. He values the opportunity to aid NetVUE colleges and universities in offering a transformativeeducational experience through cost-effective, interdisciplinary program initiatives. Carter earned his PhDfrom the University of Notre Dame in moral theology and his MDiv from Duke University DivinitySchool.Note: Given other commitments, Carter's consulting services are not available until late spring 2015.Greg CarmerGreg Carmer serves as Theologian in Residence and Dean of Christian Life at Gordon College inWenham, MA. In this role he directs the convocation program, facilitates new faculty orientation andmentors faculty in the integration of religious faith, learning and scholarship. In addition, for the past 11years he has directed the Christian Vocation Institute and the Elijah Project, both of which were launchedas Lilly-supported grant initiatives. The Elijah Project is a 12-month, 8-credit honors program on humanvocation and personal responsibility which includes a summer internship and a residential livingcomponent. Greg has spent his career to-date at the intersection of academics and campus ministry,helping students connect their growing knowledge of the world and understanding of themselves withtheir sense of purpose and call to service. At Gordon, Greg has directed the service-learning initiative, codirectedthe First Year Seminar, taught theology and interdisciplinary courses, and served as Dean of theChapel. He has organized integrative workshops for faculty who teach in common core classes andrecently hosted a NetVUE conference on the cultivation of skill and purpose among undergraduates.Greg holds an MA and a PhD in philosophical theology from Boston College and is a graduate of SpringArbor College.Lynn HunnicuttLynn Hunnicutt is a professor of Economics and directs the Wild Hope Center for Vocation at PacificLutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She arrived at Pacific Lutheran University in September 2003,during the first year of its Lilly-funded Wild Hope Project, and has served in several capacities over theensuing 11-plus years. She has facilitated a faculty study seminar of eight colleagues, managed theproject's budget and reporting, and shepherded the transformation of the grant-funded Wild Hope Projectinto an endowed Center for Vocation. The Wild Hope Center for Vocation currently sponsors an array ofprograms and activities, including seminars on mentoring and vocation for staff, study seminars onvocation and Lutheran Higher Education for faculty, an alumni speaker series associated withhomecoming, a retreat for first-year students each January, and a series of workshops in the residencehalls on the vocation of a student. In her work, Lynn is assisted by a very active steering committeerepresenting several offices across the university campus, as well as a wide network of co-conspiratorsfrom within and beyond Pacific Lutheran University. For more information on the Wild Hope Center forVocation, see its website at www.plu.edu/vocation

Julie MasseyJulie Massey has been the Senior Director for Mission and Ministry at St. Norbert College in DePere, WIsince the fall of 2000. She also serves as the director of campus ministry, a role she assumed in the fall of2005. Prior to returning to St. Norbert to work, she spent many years in Chicago, volunteering with theAmate House program, working in University Ministry at DePaul University, and working in Catholicparish settings. The St. Norbert College Program of Faith, Learning & Vocation has had several areas offocus: exploration of questions about institutional vocation; retreat opportunities for the college’s boardof trustees; rich faculty-staff development offerings, overseen by Julie and faculty colleague Paul Wadell;a 16-student residence hall ministry team, overseen by the Program’s assistant director Rebecca Welch;and ministry formation opportunities. St. Norbert College also hosts small gatherings for otherinstitutions supporting vocational exploration and the development of campus mentoring capacities. Julieis a St. Norbert alum who completed her MDiv at Loyola University Chicago.Bill MillardBill Millard created Indiana Wesleyan University’s Center for Life Calling and Leadership in fall 1999and has served as the Center’s Executive Director since then. The Center enables students to seek ahigher life purpose, equips them to make purpose-based decisions, and empowers them to develop intoworld- changing leaders. Additionally, Bill is a Senior Fellow in the Life Calling Research Institute. Asthe leader of both theory and practice in the Center, Bill has worked with varied IWU faculty and staff todevelop comprehensive models to guide program development at IWU. He authored comprehensivecurricula and a textbook on life calling for IWU’s first-year seminar. Bill has been a team leader indeveloping the School of Life Calling and Integrative Learning, a curricular and co-curricular programportal to aid all students entering IWU in the navigation of college, general education, and life decisionsbeyond college. Bill is also a professor of leadership studies at IWU. Prior to IWU leadership, Billformed Life Discovery, an organization to provide training and development on individual motivationand organizational behavior where he continues as its CEO. Bill’s prior work experience includes churchand non-profit consulting as well as corporate positions in geologic exploration. He earned his PhD inorganizational leadership from Pepperdine University after undergraduate studies in history and Greek,and a master’s degree in secondary teaching, religion, and geology.