Kelvin Sharp, Ed.D.
South Plains College

Dr. Kelvin W. Sharp serves as the fourth president of South Plains College, a comprehensive community college that enrolls more than 19,000 credit and non-credit students each year at campus locations in Levelland, Lubbock and Plainview.  As the college’s CEO, Dr. Sharp oversees more than 100 educational programs in arts and sciences, technical education and health occupations.  His goal is to ensure that residents of the college’s 15-county service area on the South Plains and beyond have a quality learning environment and faculty and staff committed to student success.

Dr. Sharp joined SPC in July 1999 as dean of arts and sciences.  He was promoted to vice president for academic affairs in January 2000.  The SPC Board of Regents named him president of the college in November 2004.

During his tenure at SPC, Dr. Sharp has led the college through its most successful reaccredidation with the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.  He has also been instrumental in facilitating the growth of the SPC faculty during a time of record enrollments.  He has worked to support faculty professional development and the expansion of technology in the classroom.

Dr. Sharp came to SPC from West Texas A&M University where he served four years as instructor in mathematics, coach of the rodeo team and assistant in the University Development Office.  Previously, he had served as dean of instruction at Clarendon College for three years and as a math and rodeo physical education instructor for seven years.  He has taught in public schools in Tyron, Neb., and Claude, Tex.

Dr. Sharp holds his doctorate of education degree in higher education administration from Texas Tech University and his master of arts degree in mathematics from Texas Tech.  He received his bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics from Chadron State College, Chadron, Neb.

Dr. Sharp and his wife, Lissa, dean of student life at SPC, have two children, Lindsey, 8, and John, 4.

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