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Employee Profile
Name:
Sharon Yarbrough
Title: Director, Institutional Effectiveness,
Research and Planning
Major responsibilities: Coordinate and assist
in various institutional data collection, reporting and informational-sharing
functions
Length of service at the College: 7 ½
years
Place of birth: Dyer (down the road from Dyersburg,
in northwest Tennessee)
Family members: Husband, daughter/son-in-law,
son/daughter-in-law, five grandchildren, three stepdaughters/two
stepsons-in-law, one stepson/stepdaughter-in-law, two stepgrandchildren
Something no one knows about you: I played intercollegiate
basketball.
Greatest achievement or proudest moment: Earning
a doctoral degree late in life.
Favorite things outside work: Showing Tennessee
walking horses.
Most rewarding part of your job: Working with
great people.
Most influential person in your life and why:
My father—he was an honest and caring man who led by example.
Favorite quote: “Do not go where the path
may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”—Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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