Student Life director rarely sits still
Ashleigh Lemaster
Issue date: 1/28/10 Section: News
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He started working with Distance Learning and Media at the main campus in Cedar Rapids. He is now the director of Student Services and Student Life at the Iowa City campus.
Weih graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a bachelor's degree in radio and television broadcasting. After graduation, he worked in radio for a short time. But he said he did not make enough money for living expenses, so he decided to go to graduate school. Returning to UNI, he received his master's in communication training technology.
Since then he has been working at Kirkwood.
As the director of Student Services and Student Life, Weih oversees academic advising and financial aid. Weih said those services act as a net to help students succeed.
Weih said he helps potential students get campus tours and gives them information about coming to Kirkwood. Weih said his job is to help students enroll at Kirkwood and help them succeed once they are Kirkwood students.
He also teaches a section of College 101, a freshman orientation course that helps new students make good choices and helps them deal with the changes that college has brought to their lives. Weih said teaching that course helps him relate to students and that as a teacher he does not pretend to know everything.
He said he hopes to help his students by telling them about the choices, good and bad, that he made as a student. He said he encourages students to say "yes" to opportunities. He admitted saying "yes" to some things still scares him, but he tries his best.
Weih said success in life comes from the relationships and he tries to pass that information onto his students.
Weih said he was a "middle-of-the-road student" and did not enjoy schoolwork. But, he said, his outgoing personality helped him get involved in many extracurricular activities as a student, such as band, athletics, student government and drama.
Even now he is involved in many activities outside Kirkwood.
Weih works freelance for Mediacom, operating a camera at high school events. He said he loves camera and video work. Weih also works as an announcer at area football games and track meets, including some at UNI, and will do the Drake Relays. Once Weih's track career was over, he said, he knew he wanted to get into announcing.
His hobbies are bowhunting and shotgun hunting. He said they help make him sit still. During hunting season, "If I'm not behind a camera then I'm in a tree stand," Weih said.
His favorite activity is watching his four daughters grow up.
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