Corrine T. Spencer

Corrine T. Spencer is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in Educational Policy & Leadership at the University at Albany (SUNY), concentrating in Higher Education. Her dissertation explores the intersections of emergency management communication and international student integration within campus communication systems, focusing on how emergency response impacts vulnerable student support networks in higher education. Her broader research interests include peer mentoring and tutoring, retention and persistence, and general student support programming with a focus on international, undocumented, nontraditional, and veteran support in higher education.

In addition to her doctoral program, Corrine  has earned her Certificate of Graduate Study (CGS) in International Education Management from University at Albany, and her Master of Arts in TESOL from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale’s Department of Linguistics. She completed her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, at SUNY Potsdam, where she dual-majored in Academic & Professional Writing and TESOL. Her TESOL major was self-designed through the Student-Initiated Interdepartmental Major (SIIM) program, culminating in International TEFL Certification through ITTT. She also holds an Associate of Arts in General Studies from St. Louis Community College–Forest Park, where her coursework primarily focused in business administration and life sciences.

Most recently, Corrine has served as a Teaching Assistant Professor with the English Language Program at SUNY Korea, where she helped redesign project-based speaking and writing courses tailored to multilingual learners. Before joining SUNY Korea, she spent over a decade at Binghamton University’s English Language Institute (ELI), where she founded the ELI Tutoring Program and co-created the ELI Mentor Program. In addition to coordinating both initiatives, she managed the department’s website and social media presence.

During Binghamton’s summer terms, Corrine also served with the Academic Achievement Training (AAT) program, formerly the Academic Success Program (ASP), as Campus & Community Liaison and later Coordinator. In these roles, she recruited, trained, and supervised residential and mentoring staff and faculty; coordinated travel, housing, and orientation logistics; and collaborated across multiple student-facing departments to enhance academic and cultural transition programming. Her teaching experience also includes positions at the University of Iowa where she was an ESL Instructor, and National Taipei University of Technology (Taiwan), and New Oriental Academy (Beijing, China), where she taught in university-readiness programs, and the North Country Literacy Volunteers (now the Potsdam Library LIFE Program), where she began her formal role as an English-language educator.

Outside of academia, Corrine is a fantasy and paranormal fiction writer and a former Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member with the Broome County Office of Emergency Management. She holds an FCC Technician’s License and operates as KC3VKL when in the United States. Corrine also remains active in professional organizations, currently serving as Social Media Coordinator for the Incheon Chapter of KOTESOL and as the Communications and Coordinating Committee Chair of the KOTESOL 2025 National Conference.