CURRICULUM VITAE REBECCA G. ADAMS Gerontology Program, Social Work Department, PO Box 26170 University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro, NC 27402-6170 Phone: (336)334-3578 Email: [email protected] BACKGROUND INFORMATION EDUCATION University of Chicago, PhD in Sociology, August, 1983, MA in Sociology, Spring 1977 • Special Area Exams: Formal Organizations & their Environments and Sociology of Aging & the Life Course • Dissertation: Friendship and its Role in the Lives of Elderly Women Trinity College, BA in Sociology with Honors, Hartford, CT, Spring 1974 JOB HISTORY University of North Carolina at Greensboro • Professor and Gerontology Undergraduate Coordinator, Fall 2017-present • Professor and Gerontology Program Director, Fall 2013-Spring 2017 • Associate Provost for Planning and Assessment, 2009-2012 • Professor of Sociology, 1999-2012 • Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Planning, Fall 2004- Summer 2005 • Assistant to the Dean of Continual Learning, 1999-2000 • Associate Professor, 1988-99 • Visiting Associate Professor, Family and Child Development, Virginia Tech, Fall 1992 • Assistant Professor, 1983-88 Other • Instructor, Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1983 • Research Projects Specialist, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, 1982-83 • Instructor, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL, 1981-83 • Research Projects Specialist, Chicago Teachers Center, 1981 • Research Projects SpecialistEducation Resource Center, Chicago, 1980-81 • Instructor, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN, 1978 • Instructor, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL, 1977-82 • Research Projects Specialist, Social Psychiatry Study Center, University of Chicago, 1978-80 1 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) • Trained to serve on SACS Commission on Colleges Board of Trustees, May 6-7, 2013. • SACS Substantive Change workshops: Radford, Virginia, April 11, 2011; Wilmington, NC, November 21, 2011; Asheville, NC, October 20, 2009. • Trained to be a Commission on Colleges Institutional Effectiveness Evaluator under The Principles, December 5, 2010 • Trained to be Commission on Colleges Evaluator under The Criteria, December 2, 2000 • Trained to direct SACS Self-Study under The Criteria, December 1999 SCUP Planning Institute, Society for College and University Planning, Certificate of Completion, January 2010 • Step I: Foundations of Planning Within the Context of Higher Education, October 2008 • Step II: Focused Knowledge for Integrated Planning Processes, January 2009 • Step III: Integrated Planning- Working with Relationship Realities, January 2010 • Linking Planning and Assessment, July 10, 2010 • SCUP Institute Faculty Training, July 2012 Essential Supervisors Workshops, University of North Carolina at Greensboro • Emotional Intelligence, Parts I, II, III, & IV, October 8 & 10, 2012; February 28 & March 4, 2013 • Meyers-Briggs, November 7, 2011 • Grievance and Disciplinary Policies Workshop, October 26, 2011 • Leave and Timekeeping Workshop, October 25, 2011 • Painless Performance Improvement, March 22, 2011 • Would I work for me?, October 30, 2010 • UNCG in a Career Banding World, September 10, 2010 • Supervising and Managing, September 1, 2010 • Essential Supervisor Program Overview, Spring 2010 • Safe Zone, November 20, 2009 • I-Spartan, October 14, 2010 • Supervising Work Study Students, 2009-2010 • P-Card Training, 2009-2010, 2013 Department Resources Group, American Sociological Association, August 12, 2006. • Trained to be a member of the Department Resources Group, the members of which ASA recommends to conduct external reviews for sociology departments • Annual DRG Training Workshops at ASA Meetings, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Finances for Non-Financial Managers, UNCG Bryan School of Business, October 14-16, 2002 • Topics: Internet Research, Accrual Accounting, Financial Statements, Fundamental Analysis, Cost Behavior and Product Costing, Overhead, Planning for Profit, Inventory Accounting, Investment Decisions 2 Program for Management Development, UNCG Bryan School of Business, February 7-March 22, 2002 • Topics: Marketing, Economics, Managing Communication, Negotiation, Team Building, Accounting, Finance, Business Plans, Leadership, Case Analysis Strategy, Global Operations Strategy, Service Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Project Management & Control Decision Analysis, Information Technology, Diversity Bridges: Academic Leadership for Women, Friday Center, September 26-December 3, 1997 • Topics: Financial Management, Legal Issues, Human Resources, Goal Setting and Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, External Relationships, Risk Management NORC/NIMH Training Fellow, National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, Fall 1974- Summer 1977 • Training to manage a survey organization • Rotations in Accounting, Instrument Development, Data Collection, Data Processing, Programming (for SPSS Inc.), Analysis & Report • Managed $1M plus budget for NIMH-funded Social Change Project and received 6 month no-cost extension HONORS • International Association for Relationship Research Inaugural Class of 30 Fellows, 2016 • UNCG Senior Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, 2003 • Dean’s Merit Awards for Teaching Excellence, 1997, 1998 • UNCG Woman of Distinction, Office of Student Affairs, 1997 • Charter Fellow, Association of Gerontology in Higher Education, 1997 • Fellow, Gerontological Society of America, 1994 • Dean’s Merit Awards for Research, 1992, 1993 • Dean’s Merit Award for Service, 1987 • Alpha Kappa Delta, 1984 (Sociology) • Pi Gamma Mu, 1974 (Social Science) 3 RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS External • Coca-Cola Company, 2001, Social Relationship as a Metaphor for Consumer-Brand Relationship, $5200 plus $350.73 to investigator • Grateful Dead Productions, 1998, Terrapin Station, a museum audience development study, $9,144.56 • AARP Andrus Foundation, 1991, Older Adult Friendship Patterns and Mental Health, $74,783.00 • American Council of Learned Societies, 1989, Travel to 5th International Conference on Personal Relationships, Oxford, England, $500.00 • Northwest Piedmont Council on Governments, 1989-90, The Yadkin County Long Range Plan, $4,000.00 • Sage Publications, Inc., 1987, Conference on Friendship and Aging, $700.00 • Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments Area Agency on Aging, 1986-87, Yadkin County Study on Aging, $16,856 • Piedmont Triad Council of Governments Area Agency on Aging, 1985-86, Davidson County Study on Aging, $5,500 University of North Carolina at Greensboro • Sixties Theme Committee, 2017, Another Year of the Dead, $1000.00 • Division of Continual Learning, 2000, Searchable Deadflames Archive, $3300.00 • Research Council, 1992-93, Analyzing Older Adult Friendship Patterns, $2,396.05 • Research Council, 1991-92, Gender Differences in Adult Friendship Patterns, $2,492.00 • Excellence Foundation, 1991, Gender Differences in Adult Friendship Patterns, $4,000.00. • Research Council, 1987-88, Friendship and Adulthood: An Edited Volume, $1011.00 • Research Council, 1986-87, Relationship between Formal and Informal Service Provision, Research Council Grant, $1483.00 • Excellence Foundation, 1986, Relationship between Formal and Informal Service Provision: The Davidson County Study on Aging, $2500.00 • Research Council, 1984-85, Friendship Networks of Elderly Women, $750.00 • Excellence Foundation, 1984, Evolution of Friendships of Elderly Women, $1700.00 PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PRODUCTS Books • Adams, R. G., & Sardiello, R. (Eds.). 2000. Deadhead Social Science: You Ain’t Gonna Learn What You Don’t Want to Know. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. • Adams, R. G., & Allan, G. (Eds.). 1998. Placing Friendship in Context. London: Cambridge University Press. (In Structural Analysis series, edited by Mark Granovetter). • Blieszner, R., & Adams, R.G. 1992. Adult Friendship. Newbury Park: Sage. 4 Books (continued) • Adams, R.G., & Blieszner, R. (Eds.) 1989. Older Adult Friendship: Structure and Process. Newbury Park: Sage Publications. Re-released as part of SAGE digital initiative, 2012. • Stinchcombe, A.L., R.G. Adams, C.A. Heimer, K.L. Scheppele, T.W. Smith, & D.G. Taylor. 1980. Crime and Punishment--Changing Attitudes in America. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Journal Articles • Justin Harmon & Rebecca G. Adams (2018) Building a life note-by-note: music and the life course, World Leisure Journal, 60:2, 140-155, DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2018.1444670 • Elise K. Eifert, Rebecca Adams, Sharon Morrison & Robert Strack (2016) Emerging Trends in Family Caregiving Using the Life Course Perspective: Preparing Health Educators for an Aging Society, American Journal of Health Education, 47(3), 176-197, DOI: 10.1080/19325037.2016.1158674 • Eifert, E.K., Adams, R., Dudley, W., & Perko, M. 2015. Family caregiver identity: A literature review. American Journal of Health Education, 46(6), 357-367. DOI: 10.1080/19325037.2015.1099482 • Adams, R. G. 2010. Terrapin Station Demographics and “Deadication”: The Furthur Festival ’98 Data. Dead Letters IV:51-62. Reprinted in Nicholas Meriwether (Ed.), Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey, pp. 193-205, Scarecrow Press, 2012. • Adams, R. G., Berggren, J., Docherty, L., Ruffin, K., Pfaff Wright, C. 2006. Gender-of- author differences in study design of older adult friendship surveys. Personal Relationships 13(4):503-520. • Adams, R. G. 2003. Stigma and the Inappropriately Stereotyped: The Deadhead Professional. Sociation Today 1(1):www.ncsociology.org. • Ueno, K., & Adams, R.