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CIC awards $20K grant to Luther DANNY MAY STAFF WRITER Luther recently received a $20,000 grant from a network council, according to a recent press release on Luther’s website. The grant will be used to promote and help fund vocation on campus, going toward retreats, luncheons and other related causes. The program is open to all students. Luther College is one of 192 member colleges of the Council of Independent Colleges—Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education, CICNetVUE, funds the grant. “CIC focuses on providing services to campus leaders through seminars, workshops and programs that assist institutions in improving educational offerings, administrative and financial performance and institutional visibility,� according to the council’s website. The Career Center and College Ministries are collaborating to develop programming with funding from the grant around the theme of vocation. “This particular grant is focused on the campus pastors and drawing them more into the campus around the idea of vocation,�� CIC-NetVUE Project Director and Professor of German Ruth Kath said. Providing opportunities to explore vocation is the intended use of the grant, so the Career Center and Campus Ministries are working to embed this idea and make it attainable for students. “Vocation is part of the legacy at Luther College,� Campus Pastor Mike Blair said. “Luther is a place about transformation. Vocation is a way of thinking, ‘My gifts are given to me for a

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purpose.’� Retreat facilitator Makayla Marinack (‘16) has worked with Campus Ministries and continues to explore her own vocation throughout her time at Luther. “Vocation is a process; it’s never complete,� Marinack said. “Luther is a place for vocation, not just about getting a degree, but what to do with this degree. It lets us explore who we are and what we’re doing.� According to Kath, although the program is open to any students questioning their direction in life, it is particularly directed at sophomores. “Sophomores are ready to start looking,� Kath said. “A lot of them need more time, direction and guidance.� Combining people of different ages also plays an important role in discerning vocation, according to Kath. Alums and current students are combined on some of these retreats. “There is wisdom imparted on both sides,� Kath said. “Wisdom of young people is shared with the wisdom of older people.� Kath explained that Career Center luncheons will be held throughout the year Career Center members and campus pastors will sit down to create conversation. These, in addition to the vocation retreats, are the primary components of the project. The initial retreat took place in August, involving just faculty and staff. The next retreat will take place on Oct. 2, at Ewalu camp in Strawberry Point, Iowa. An additional student, faculty and staff retreat is scheduled for February. According to Kath, there are still spaces available for sophomores on the retreat. Students interested in attending should contact Kath or Blair. This retreat is free for students.

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Solar array installed on Preus Library roof FRANCES STEVENSON STAFF WRITER Luther’s Center for Sustainable Communities installed three new solar arrays during summer 2015 to meet the 50 percent carbon reduction goal set by the Board of Regents. The new solar arrays are located on the new roof of Preus Library and behind the original 280 kilowatt grounded array. The new arrays add 1,635 kilowatts of sustainable power, estimated to save Luther more than a million dollars over the next 25 years and allow Luther to reach its carbon reduction goal by the end of the 2015 fiscal year. A solar array refers to a collection of solar panels wired together. “There are several goals [for the new arrays], one of them is to reduce our impact,� Director of Facilities Jay Uthoff said. “There is the whole renewable aspect of it and how to model that into the wide community.� SOLAR ARRAYS, PAGE 4

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