Curriculum Vitae

Sharon Sarles




PRESENT POSITION AND OTHER EXPERIENCE


Adjunct Professor, Austin Community College June 2004 - present

with highest priority to hire

Adjunct Instructor, Temple Junior College September 2001- May 2006

Adjunct Instructor, Wayland Baptist September 1994- December 1995

Substitute, South Plains College Summer 1995


EDUCATION


1998 Masters of Arts, Sociology, Texas Tech University

1989 Masters of Divinity, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

  1. Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, The University Texas at Austin with Highest Honors and Special Honors in Sociology

1982 Montessori Diploma, St. Nicholas, commended



FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS


1988 Newell Fellowship, for continuing education, awarded based on scholarship

1986-8 Jean Brown Scholarship, based on academic merit and promise for ministry (highest honor awarded to current student; more than a full scholarship)

1987 Letter from Professor C. Ellis Nelson to Dean Robert Shelton, alerting him of completion of thesis level paper, completed to a high standard

Elected Phi Beta Kappa

1986 Awarded Highest Honors and Special Honors in Sociology upon graduation from Bachelor’s program after two years of study at The University of Texas

1985 Phi Kappa Phi, Gold Key, Alpha Kappa Delta



ORIGINAL SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS


2009 Secrets for Success in Tutoring – Staff Training, Austin Community College

2008 Increasing Student Engagement – NISOD presentation

  1. Individual Attention Increases Course Engagement – Bibliography

Faculty Outreach NISOD presentation with Dr. A. Maldonado


1998 Secularization and Sacralization: a Comparative Study – Master’s Thesis

  1. The Links Between Learning Disabilities and Juvenile Delinquency – accepted at Mid-South Sociological Association, October

  1. Positive Deviance Reconsidered – accepted at Second Annual Student Research Conference, West Texas A&M University, November 1995

  1. Secularization and Sacralization – accepted at Southwestern Sociological Conference, March 1996

  1. Expressions of Dominance in Woman to Woman Communication

  1. Community: A case study of one residential collective settlement in “The Move of God” - thesis length ethnomethodological study of a utopian pentecostal collective settlement.

  1. The Community Dimension of Church Growth : Differential recruitment rates of congregations – undergraduate honors research project