Busser completed the M.A. in Writing program at NSU in 2013. During the master’s program, she worked as a graduate assistant and Writing Fellow for the CAHSS Writing Center. Following the completion of her M.A., Busser earned a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at Georgia State University in 2017 and landed an assistant professor position at the University of Central Arkansas. Her dissertation examined higher education's increasing focus on raising student retention rates and its impact on traditionally marginalized populations in the composition classroom. She begins her new role with the University of Central Arkansas in the fall of 2017.