Faculty and Staff Support

If you’re a faculty or staff member who has completed the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), you are invited to join LINC’s new IDI Planners Group to help you begin or continue working on your individual IDI Plan. This fall, the group meets monthly on a Thursday and Friday of the same week.

If you are interested in participating in this group, contact LINC Director Carol Goss for more details.

LINC facilitates seasonal reading groups in which faculty and staff participants read and discuss a novel, memoir, or other text. LINC selects books that explore intercultural perspectives. This is not an ongoing book club; you can participate on an occasional basis, depending on your interest in reading the selected text. The 2026 Winter Reading Group will meet in late January; the text will be announced shortly before Thanksgiving break.

Most recently, LINC hosted its fourth reading group which met in summer 2025. Participants discussed Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, a work of narrative non-fiction that presents the conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath.

Previous seasonal reading groups include Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.

Put yourself in the role of learner and try a new language by participating in a student-led language group. Though these informal groups are created for students, based on their interests, Valpo faculty and staff are also welcome to participate. 

In Spring 2025, LINC hosted a new conversation group specifically for faculty and staff, led by Rev. Kate Museus. Anyone interested in practicing Spanish with colleagues in the upcoming semester should contact LINC Director Carol Goss.