Bio
August 2021, Dr. Whitley was appointed Associate Dean for Undergraduate Student Affairs for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
September 2016, Dr. Whitley was appointed Interim Associate Dean for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She joined the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty as assistant professor and broadcast production coordinator in August 2001. Whitley was promoted to associate professor in 2006. She came to North Carolina A&T State University in February 1984 as the Visual Communications Specialist for the Agricultural Research and Extension Programs in the School of Agriculture.
Research Interests
First-generation college students, student retention, visual ethnography, scholarship of teaching.
Recent Publications
- Sheila Whitley (2007). (I didn’t understand a word.). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (3rd ed.)) (3) pp. 124-125. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2007). (I’ve got to do a research paper for this class? Yuck!). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (3rd ed.)) (3) pp. 287-303. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2007). (Just a white dot). In Shird, M.M., Silverthrone, R., & Patterson, A., (The Quilt: Cultural Voices) (1) pp. 200-202. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2007). (There’s a redneck in my backyard, Help! ). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (3rd ed.)) (3) pp. 48-55. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2007). (There’s a redneck in my backyard, Help! ). In In Williams, R., McQuitty, D.L., & Snipes, T.B., (ttly . . . The fundamentals of speech communication in the digital age) (1) pp. 42-47. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2007). (There’s a redneck in my backyard, Help! ). In Shird, M.M., Silverthrone, R., & Patterson, A., (The Quilt: Cultural Voices) (1) pp. 192-199. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2007). ( Understanding the copyright law – At least an understanding of the law). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (3rd ed.)) (3) pp. 435-457. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2005). (I didn’t understand a word). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (2nd ed.)) (2) pp. 128-129. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2005). (I’ve got to do a research paper for this class? Yuck!). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (2nd ed.)) (2) pp. 264-279. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2005). (There’s a redneck in my backyard, Help!). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (2nd ed.)) (2) pp. 42-48. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.
- Sheila Whitley (2005). ( Understanding the copyright law – At least an understanding of the law). In M.M. Shird, (Communication Voices (2nd ed.)) (2) pp. 379-403. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.