Sharon G. Waldrum received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction:  Adult Education with a cognate in Measurement, in August of 2005.

In January 2007, Dr. Waldrum returned to her alma mater, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, as an assistant professor of Adult Education in the Department of Human Development and Services in the School of Education. She has started a Distance Learning cohort in Richmond County, North Carolina, for which she received a grant to put two classes online. Among the classes she teaches is the Adult Education Practicum, the capstone class for this program. In this class, she is the university supervisor for up to 15 students who serve as adult educators in various agencies and institutions of higher learning.
 
In the past year, Waldrum has presented research at Clark Atlanta's 3rd Annual National Teaching and Learning for Empowerment Conference: A Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference for Minority Serving Institutions and Institutions Serving Minorities. She also presented at the Association for Gerontology and Human Development in Historically Black Colleges & Universities, Inc.'s 28th Annual Meeting and Conference/Symposium. She was elected as treasurer of this national organization. 
 
Additionally, she is collaborating with Dr. Rosemary Closson, of USF COEDU on her research: "When the Majority is the Minority: White students’ social adjustment when in the minority.”