Shannon is an adjunct instructor of Business, Marketing, and Management at Trinidad
State College. Having taught business communication, marketing, and management for
the last 26 years at the college level has been one of the great joys of her life.
Shannon is a first-generation college student with a doctoral degree in management
in community college policy and administration, a master’s degree in communication
and marketing, and a bachelor's degree in journalism. She grew up in Houston, Texas,
as the oldest of five siblings.
Shannon has worked at various colleges and universities over the years, but her heart
has always been at the community college. Moving to Colorado from Texas had been a
lifelong goal. Shannon taught at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas, for 19
years, first as an adjunct and then for the last seven years as full-time faculty,
serving as Assistant Department Chair for Faculty, college-wide committees for Faculty
Evaluation, and as support for faculty evaluation. Other educational institutions
Shannon has served as an instructor at: Central Texas College, University of Maryland
Global Campus, Art Institute of Austin, Fletcher Technical Community College, Western
New Mexico State University, Trinidad State College, University of Houston-Victoria,
Texas A&M University, Baylor University.
Other positions held over the years included Technology Training Coordinator, Marketing
and Recruiting Coordinator, Marketing Director, Associate Publisher of a newspaper,
and copy editor.
Shannon has four adult children and a husband, as well as two grandchildren. Travel
is her favorite, and she has been to 27 countries. Favorite countries have been Spain,
Turkey, Peru, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic (for the merengue dancing), Mexico,
France, Italy, and Greece. Colorado is the only state she has traveled to that she
decided to make home (after leaving her home state). She loves hiking, dancing, and
going on adventures including ziplining and going on the Royal Gorge Skycoaster and
on the Terrordactyl at Cave of the Winds. Shannon is glad to be at TSC!
Classes Taught at TSC:
Business Communications, Principles of Marketing, Introduction to Business, Principles
of Management, Customer Service, Business Research and Data Analytics.
Publications
Two chapters in the OER text: Communicating to Connect - Interpersonal Communication
for Today.
Invited book chapter
Count Us In: Growing up with Down Syndrome, an attention shift analysis in The Rhetoric
of Social Intervention textbook. Sage Publications, August 2008. By Opt, S.K. and
Gring, M.
Dissertation Title: Exploration of Programs for People with Intellectual Disability
in the Community College
Professional Memberships
National Communication Association
- Doctor of Management, University of Maryland Global Campus
- Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Communication and Marketing, University
of Houston-Victoria (now Texas A&M University-Victoria)
- Bachelor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin
- Additional graduate coursework in Organizational Communication, Texas A&M University
