Teresa Kuruc

Teresa Kuruc became the Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs in March of 2022 after having served since 2019 as Director of Faculty Support and Development in the University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Teresa is charged with advancing the UAGC faculty’s capacity to execute institutional programs related to student persistence and graduation, both in and out of the classroom. Teresa earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California San Diego, where her scholarly work investigated how literary forms both reflect and impact the perception of everyday life and the subsequent formation of personal ethical structures, especially during politically volatile times. Teresa has developed and taught curricula for undergraduate foreign language, culture, and literature courses at The Ohio State University, Indiana University, San Diego State University, and the University of California San Diego; managed academic-community outreach programs; and led the operationalization and scaling of Academic Affairs initiatives related to faculty teaching expectations, professional development, and engagement. Her scholarly and instructional work has motivated her use of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) “can-do” statements, an affirming and holistic assessment tool, as a model for building content competence and managing change in both student- and faculty-facing environments.

Publications

Contingency and “Co-Being”: A Dialogic Approach to Adjunct Faculty Support
Contingency and “Co-Being”: A Dialogic Approach to Adjunct Faculty Support
Teresa Kuruc. © 2023. 20 pages.
The dependence of one being on another, and the notion that the way things are is not the way they had to be, are core topics of contingency, and they inspire this chapter's...