Joined Virginia Tech: 1987

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's	College of Charleston
Master's	Washington State University
Doctorate	Washington State University

CURRENT TEACHING INTERESTS:

Qualitative Methodology
Sociological Issues in College Pedagogy
Social Research Methods

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Qualitative Methodology
Public Sociology
Evaluations of Mental Health Services for Youth
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

SELECTED AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Director of the University Writing Program, 1995 to May 2000

Chair, Academy of Teaching Excellence, 1998-1999

The Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Sociology, 2003, 2006

E. Gordan Erickson Outstanding Graduate Teaching Faculty Award, 2001, 2002,  2003, 2004

Golden Key International Honor Society, Honorary Member, Virginia Tech Chapter, 2006

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

Bailey, Carol.  A. 2007. A Guide to Qualitative Field Research, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage/Pine Forge Press

Bailey, Carol A. 1996. A Guide to Field Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

Articles:

Bailey, Carol A. Equality with Difference: On Androcentrism and Menstruation. Teaching Sociology. Vol. 21, 1993, April: 121-129.

Fuhrman, Ellsworth R. and Carol A. Bailey. Reflections in the Individual-Society Connection in Contemporary Sociological Theory. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Vol. 19, 1993, No. 1:1-30.

SELECTED EVALUATION RESEARCH: 

Therapeutic Day Treatment Program, In-school program for youth with mental illnesses. Family Preservation Services, Providence Service Corporation, Inc.  2005 to present.
     
Virtual Residential Program. Intensive, in-home, service delivery program for youth with mental illnesses and their families.  Providence Service Corporation, Inc.  2002 to present.   

Family Preservation Services, In-home service delivery program to youth with mental illnesses and their families. Providence Service Corporation, Inc.  2003.

Mobile Chemistry Lab, Science education delivery to under-funded schools in rural Virginia.  Funded, in part, by the Eisenhower Professional  Development Program, College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech, and the National Science Foundation ($500,000).  Carla Slebodnick and Gary Long, Principle Investigators, Department of Chemistry. 1999-2003.

Nano-technology, teacher education outreach. Funded by the National Science Foundation and Engineering Initiative under the Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams Category. Multi-year grant for $1,167,701. Michael Hochella, Susan Eriksson, Madeline Schreiber, and Chris Tadanier, Principle Investigators, Department of Geological Science. 2002.

SABRE Program, program to reduce teenage alcohol and drug  abuse.  Family Preservation Services, Providence Service Corporation, Inc. 2002.

Chem-Kits, Chemistry education delivery program to under-funded schools in rural Virginia. Funded, in part, by the Eisenhower Professional Development fund and the College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech   Gary Long, Principle Investigator, Department of Chemistry. 2002.

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