{"id":4379,"date":"2025-02-21T18:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=4379"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:21:50","slug":"sharon-a-fusco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/board-of-directors\/sharon-a-fusco\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon A. Fusco"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Degree:<\/strong>\u00a0 BS in ED, 1967 (from Danbury State College-DSC)
Board Members:<\/strong>\u00a0 1968 -1966;\u00a0 1996 – present
Board Title<\/strong>\u00a0 Member, Life Member (since 1996)
Committees:<\/strong>
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Honors & Awards<\/strong><\/span>
1992 – 1998<\/strong>, President of CT TESOL (Teachers of English Speakers of Other Languages)
2019<\/strong>, WCSU Alumni Associtation Outstanding Service Award<\/p>

Professional Background
<\/strong><\/span>Teacher(gr.5),Ridgefield public\u00a0 schools , 1967 – 1969
ESL teacher (gr.K-12 , Adult Ed.),Danbury public schools, 1969 – 2016
Coordinator of ESL & Bilingual Programs, 1990 -2009
Director, ESL Reception Center, 2009 – 2016
Retired\u00a0 2016<\/p>

Academic Background<\/strong><\/span>
DSC,\u00a0 BS, Elem. Ed.,
UCONN, MS, Multicultural Ed.,
SCSU, 6th year, Administration<\/p>

Why<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>
I enjoyed my\u00a0 time as a student at DSC and wanted to continue my involvement.<\/p>

Influences<\/strong><\/span>
What I learned while at DSC as well as the time spent at WCSU allowed me to have a very successful and re-warding 50 year career.<\/p>

Fun Facts<\/strong><\/span>
I have been involved with the University, in one way or another, for more than 60 years. Over the years I have served as Secretary, Treasurer, Vise-President, and President as well as a Committee Chair.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Email Sharon Fusco Sharon Fusco ’67 Degree:\u00a0 BS in ED, 1967 (from Danbury State College-DSC)Board Members:\u00a0 1968 -1966;\u00a0 1996 – presentBoard Title\u00a0 Member, Life Member (since 1996)Committees:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Scholarship Chair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Travel Committee\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University Gift Com. Honors & Awards1992 – 1998, President …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"parent":3869,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4379","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4379\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}