Growing Intercultural Leaders (GIL)

GIL is a professional development opportunity for faculty and staff designed to cultivate the intercultural leadership skills that will move Purdue -- West Lafayette toward more inclusion, equity and belonging.

As a program outcome, GIL aims for broad inclusion of participants across job status, campus unit, race, ethnicity, ability, gender identity, sexuality, religion, nationality, age, and more. It also seeks to build a community of current and past participants and mentors for ongoing personal and professional growth.

The GIL program provides two levels of support for faculty and staff who work as teachers, mentors and advisors with students and/or with other faculty and staff on campus.

The GIL Scholarship Program

At the scholarship level, GIL participants complete Dr. Tara Harvey's online course, Facilitating Intercultural Learning, during fall semester. During spring semester, they are assigned a mentor to support their continuing work toward their personal development goal and to set in motion the project related to their professional goal. CILMAR covers the cost of the course (value $2500). The scholarship level calls for a commitment of one academic year and an end-of-year report.

The GIL Fellowship Program

At the fellowship level, GIL participants work on their personal development goal and implement a project related to their professional development goal with support of a mentor, research collaboration, and professional development funds of $2500 upon submission of an end-of-year report. The fellowship level calls for a commitment of one academic year and may be renewed for a second year.

Eligibility

Scholarship Program

GIL scholars are faculty and staff who are relatively new to thinking about frameworks for intercultural learning, who seek to grow personally in this area, and who wish to explore how to cultivate intercultural growth in their students and/or in faculty or staff they mentor. GIL scholars will generally have completed IPG or Worldview Workshops or bring some experience in the area of DEI, study away/abroad, community engagement, learning theories, or other related activities.

Fellowship Program

GIL fellows are faculty and staff leaders who already have some experience working with frameworks for intercultural/DEI learning and are committed to making personal growth, fostering intercultural and/or DEI growth in students, mentoring colleagues, and contributing to related knowledge production a central part of their professional efforts. They are prepared to disseminate their work beyond their own department or program. GIL fellows will generally have worked with curricular redesign in ELEVATE, held a GIL scholarship, or bring both experience and theoretical knowledge in the area of DEI, study away/abroad, community engagement, theories of learning, etc.

Note: If you are new to thinking about frameworks for intercultural learning, IPG is an incentivized, fall-semester professional development program that can help you design or redesign a course or program with intercultural and/or DEI learning outcomes.

Goal setting

For both the scholarship and fellowship, GIL participants set goals in two tracks – personal and professional development – and pursue a project related to their position and their professional goal.

For ideas (not required) of personal goals, consult the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric, the Champlain College Competency Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion rubric, and the Intercultural Leadership Rubric.

Ideas of professional goals include, but are not limited to, revamping a course, creating learning activities, developing an assessment program, mapping a curriculum, designing a mentoring program, etc.

Application

Applications are reviewed by a committee and evaluated based on qualifications, alignment of goals with CILMAR's mission and resources, depth of need in applicant's department or program, clarity of purpose, and impact.

Priority for applications for the 2024-25 academic year will go to faculty in departments and schools that have been part of the ELEVATE program.

To apply, click here.

Applications are due May 1, 2024. Selection will be announced by June 1, 2024. Program activities are expected to begin at the start of fall semester.

Please contact Lead Intercultural Learning Specialist Dr. Aletha Stahl at stahl23@purdue.edu with any questions.

GIL Participants and Mentors

Thank you to each GIL participant for your contributions to intercultural learning on the Purdue campus and to our GIL mentors who make the program possible.

2023-2024

2023-2024
Level	Name	Title	College	Unit/Department	Mentor
Scholar	Nyssa Lilovich	senior communication specialist	Agriculture	International Programs in Agriculture	Annette Benson
Scholar	Rhonda von Werder	manager	Engineering	Purdue Academy of Global Engineering & Global Fellows	Stewart Chang Alexander
Fellow	Wanju Huang	clinical assistant professor	Education	Curriculum & Instruction	TBD
Fellows	Margaret Phillips & Heather Howard	associate professors	Libraries & School of Information Studies		TBD

2022-23

GIL participants and mentors for 2022-2023
Level	Name	Title	College	Unit/Department	Mentor
1	Nyssa Lilovich	senior communication specialist	Agriculture	International Programs in Agriculture	Michael Bittinger
1	Ha Nguyen	senior graduate program coordinator	Science	Computer Science	Elizabeth Karcher
1	Margaret Phillips	associate professor	Libraries & School of Information Studies	Science & Engineering Libraries	Heidi Parker
1	Linnette White	assistant director	Agriculture	Office of Multicultural Programs	Daniel C. Jones
2	Stephanie Bowers	intercultural learning specialist	Global Partnerships & Programs	Office of International Students & Scholars	Daniel C. Jones
2	Angelica Duran	professor	Liberal Arts	English	Aletha Stahl
2	Rachel Swank	licensing advisor	Education	Office of Teacher Education & Licensure	Aletha Stahl
3	Jim Tanoos	associate professor of practice	Purdue Polytechnic Institute	Engineering Technology	Mark Russell

2021-22

GIL participants and mentors for 2021-2022
Level	Name	Title	College	Unit/Department	Mentor
1	Constance Kaspar	associate director	Science	Women in Science	Kristen Kirby
1	Michael Mutti	testing associate	Liberal Arts	Purdue Language & Culture Exchange (PLaCE)	Tatjana Babic-Williams
1	Rachel Swank	licensing advisor	Education	Office of Teacher Education & Licensure	Lan Jin
2	Sharon Borkowski	senior lecturer	Liberal Arts	School of Languages & Cultures	Aletha Stahl
2	Jazmine Clifton	director	Student Success	Purdue Promise	Aletha Stahl
2	Dawn F. Stinchcomb	associate professor	Liberal Arts	School of Languages & Cultures	Aletha Stahl
3	Lata Krishnan	professor emerita	Health & Human Sciences	Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences	Stewart Chang Alexander

2020-21

GIL participants and mentors for 2020-2021
Level	Name	Title	College	Unit/Department	Mentor
1	Steven Shelby	director	School of Business	Larsen Leaders Academy	Annette Benson
2	Margaret Hass	lecturer	Liberal Arts	Purdue Language & Culture Exchange (PLACE)	Aletha Stahl
2	Huai-Rhin Kim	lecturer	Liberal Arts	School of Languages & Cultures	Aletha Stahl
3	Kristen Kirby	clinical associate professor	Health & Human Sciences	Nursing	Charles Calahan

2019-21

GIL participants and mentors for 2019-2021
Level	Name	Title	College	Unit/Department	Mentor
3	Tatjana Babic Williams	senior lecturer	Liberal Arts	School of Languages & Cultures	Aletha Stahl, Kris Acheson-Clair
3	Annalisa Mosca	senior lecturer	Liberal Arts	School of Languages & Cultures	Annette Benson, Aletha Stahl

2019-20

GIL participants and mentors for 2019-2020
Level	Name	Title	College	Unit/Department	Mentor
1	Jacquelyn Thomas-Miller	director	Education	Advising & Recruiting	Katherine Yngve
1	Dawn F. Stinchcomb	associate professor	Liberal Arts	School of Languages & Cultures	Florence Adibu, Aletha Stahl
2	Elena Benedicto	professor	Liberal Arts	English	Aletha Stahl
2	Daniel Guberman	assistant director	Center for Instructional Excellence	Inclusive Pedagogy	Daniel C. Jones
2	Kristen Kirby	clinical associate professor	Health & Human Sciences	Nursing	Daniel C. Jones
2	Jonathan Ying	lecturer	School of Business	Organizational Behavior/Human Resources	Florence Adibu
3	Elizabeth Karcher	associate professor	Agriculture	Animal Sciences	Katherine Yngve

2018-2019

GIL participants and mentors for 2018-2019
Level	Name	Title	College	Unit/ Department	Mentor
1	Kristen Kirby	clinical associate professor	Health & Human Sciences	Nursing	Chuck Calahan
1	Susan Modlin	official retiree	Health & Human Sciences	Nursing	Florence Adibu
2	Lata Krishnan	professor emerita	Health & Human Sciences	Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences	Chuck Calahan
2	Vicki Simpson	associate professor	Health & Human Sciences	Nursing	Katherine Yngve
3	Patrick Brunese	director, academic programs	Engineering	Industrial Engineering	Kris Acheson-Clair

Goals: Learning Outcomes and Evidence

Per the recommendations of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) Transparency Framework and the NILOA Excellence in Assessment Standards, we provide the goals for each program offered through CILMAR.

GIL Scholars will achieve Level 2 and GIL Fellows will achieve Level 3 on three of the six domains on the Intercultural Leadership Rubric: wellbeing, self-awareness, theoretical foundations, assessment and integration of learning, reflection, ownership/self-directed learning. This achievement will be determined by CILMAR staff as evidenced by an end-of-year report that includes critical reflection, artifacts such as a syllabus or student work, for GIL Fellows documentation of shared learning beyond their departments or program (e.g., presentation, white paper, published article), and by mentor notes.

Updated March 5, 2024