Teresa Kuruc is the Vice President for Faculty Affairs and the ALO at the University of Arizona Global Campus, where she has served for 10 years in multiple faculty support and development roles. Her experience in higher education, includes teaching upper-division undergraduate foreign language, culture, and literature courses; managing community outreach for academic programs; and serving as resident director for study abroad programs. Teresa earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California San Diego and a Master's Degree in Russian Literature from The Ohio State University.