Sharon Coulson

FM Staff

PRESIDENT (05-06): Sharon Coulson
JOB TITLE: Foodservice Director
EMPLOYER: University of California-Davis, Davis, CA
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: After graduation, I worked for a year as a food service supervisor at a hospital, then spent five years as a foodservice manager for the dining program at University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law. For the past 20 years I was first a food service manager and then the director for the Associated Students in the retail operation of the Memorial Union at UC-Davis.
EDUCATION: B.S. in Dietetics and Food Admininstration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
MOST CHALLENGING ASPECT OF MY JOB: Directing a $3.3 million retail operation with a unique model: we operate with about 225 part-time student employees who do 100 percent of our cooking, baking, serving, cashiering and supervising.We also have four student managers and serve over 7,000 customers a day!

NACUFS AT A GLANCE
MISSION: "NACUFS assists members and advances the collegiate foodservice industry by providing insight, education, services and knowledge exchange."
MEMBERS: 643 colleges and universities; 445 members from industry
HEADQUARTERS: NACUFS
1405 S. Harrison St.-Ste. 305
Manly Miles Building/MSU
East Lansing, MI 48824
PHONE: (517) 332-2494
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Joseph Spina, Ph.D., CAE
WEB SITE: www.nacufs.org