Kyle Tusing (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), in this new role as Vice Provost for Faculty Success, will coordinate faculty success that is oriented around student success. This includes coordinating activities focused on supporting faculty with a focus on teaching and mentoring, career-track faculty promotion, faculty initiatives for working with transfer students, adjunct faculty onboarding and faculty initiatives for Study Abroad and Transfer Students. He will provide general support for Faculty Affairs processes for career-track faculty, including promotion, professional development and programs to enhance faculty roles in student success and the Provost’s Academic Success Goals.
Kyle specializes in social influence and interpersonal communication and has taught in the College of Social and Behavioral Science's Communication Department since 2000.
He was the director of undergraduate studies and the internship director for the Communication Department.
He taught Communication 101, the introductory course to the major. He also has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on public speaking, communication theory, small group communication, relational communication, organizational communication, and persuasion.
He won the College of Social and Behavioral Science's Award for Excellence in Lower Division Undergraduate Teaching in 2006 and 2019.
His research has appeared in Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Language and Social Psychology, Communication Quarterly and The sourcebook of nonverbal measures: Going beyond words.
Email: kjt@arizona.edu