Meet Jody Carlisle, Assistant Professor of Accounting at PVCC

Starting in the fall 2020 semester, PVCC has welcomed many new faces to our community, including Assistant Professor of Accounting Jody Carlisle. 

Carlisle grew up around Tennessee and Arkansas, but after getting injured in high school while playing football, he joined the army and moved to California. After serving in the army, he became a police officer, attending first Gavilan College in California and then University of Mississippi. He then got a job at Walmart in 2003, a position that he maintained for 14 years. In 2010, Carlisle went back to school and received a Master’s degree in Business from Webster University, which he used to get a job as a teacher at Texas A&M International University. He is currently pursuing a doctorate from Walden University. 

After the coronavirus pandemic cost him his job at TAMIU, Carlisle began applying for other teaching positions, which is when he found PVCC. Having many friends in the area, he accepted the position of assistant professor of accounting and moved to Virginia on August 15, 2020. 

Carlisle expressed his fondness of the PVCC community in a recent interview, saying that “they seem to care more about the students’ learning” as opposed to other colleges. 

The fall 2020 semester is Carlisle’s first semester teaching at PVCC, and he is teaching ACC 211. Although he has enjoyed his experience thus far, he would prefer in-person classes over online.

“I prefer face to face because it’s more intimate,” Carlisle said. “I can read the expressions and see if you’re getting the concepts I’m talking about.”

One thing that Carlisle strives for in his classes is diversity in teaching methods, putting effort into explaining the course content in different ways to assist all types of learners.

“I like working with different mediums because everyone learns differently,” Carlisle said.

Carlisle also described a program he helped run at TAMIU, called VITA, which he hopes to establish at PVCC.

“VITA stands for Volunteer Income Tax Assistance,” Carlisle said. “It is a program sponsored by the IRS, and they certify the tax preparers for free. It offers free tax return preparations for low-income families. In Laredo, we did over 6,000 returns last year and saved approximately $1 million in preparation fees for our clients. I am hoping to start the program here at PVCC this year or next depending on COVID-19.”

For more information, contact Carlisle at jcarlisle@pvcc.edu.