Dr. Hilary Gross is the Online Learning Program Coordinator for the Office of Online Learning (OOL). Her primary responsibilities include the Dual-Credit Learning Accelerator initiative, which is supported by the American Talent Initiative. She is an award-winning instructor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has also served as an Assistant Director for the Rhetoric Program where she supported teacher training and multimodal instruction. Dr. Gross is passionate about both higher education and K-12 education, bringing together her previous life as a high school English Language Arts teacher and her experience teaching literature and composition at the University in her role with the Office of Online Learning.