Sharon Weis
syweis@esf.edu

Sharon Weis is an Administrative Staff Assistant at SUNY-ESF.  As such, she provides support to the Associate Dean of Educational Outreach, Instructional Quality and Technology, maintains unit’s accounts, coordinates special projects as assigned, and provides representation of office programs at SUNY-ESF events and broader community activities.

Previously, as an Outreach Project Staff Associate, Sharon coordinated a project funded by a $1.2 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to provide training and education in bioprocess engineering, indoor environmental quality, engineering and renewable energy. She was responsible for coordinating activities with the academic advisor of each certificate, facilitating the successful administration and delivery of the grant, facilitating the approval of two of the certificate programs with SUNY and NY State Education Department, and working in coordination with the DOL SUNY SPARE program in the establishment and development of a Renewable Energy Outreach Steering Committee.  

In her early years with the Outreach office, Weis was the Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean.  As such she worked closely with all programs in Outreach, Instructional Quality and Technology at SUNY-ESF.  She was an integral component of the ESF in the High School program as it grew from three (3) schools to twenty-three (23) urban, rural and suburban partnering schools.  In addition, she contributed to coordination of both the annual Graduate Assistant Colloquium and the annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning.  She was also responsible for the preparation and administration of End-of-Course Student Surveys for all SUNY-ESF courses each semester.

Sharon earned a Bachelors degree from St. Lawrence University in Sociology.  Prior to joining ESF she was as a Methods Analyst at Mutual of New York (MONY) and she worked extensively within the Liverpool Central School District.  Weis joined ESF Outreach in 2000.

Sharon is originally from Yorktown Heights, NY and has been a resident of Liverpool, NY since 1972. She spends much of her free time visiting her children and extended family in Boston, Washington DC and Winston-Salem, NC, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.