Faculty profile: Janis Weber

Janis Weber is an Instructor of Accounting in the College of Business Administration at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She is also a Certified Public Accountant, and proprietor of an accounting firm in Bastrop, Louisiana, where she provides tax and advisory services to physicians. She has more than twenty years' experience, working in the accounting field as a CPA and management advisor.

Janis has been extensively involved in community and professional organizations, such as the Chamber of Commerce, community theatre, and her church, as well as various American Institute of CPAs and Louisiana Society of CPAs committees. 

In 1995, she served as a Presidential Appointee to the White House Conference on Small Business, which was a week long meeting of delegates from all fifty states, who came together to forge a consensus of opinion regarding issues important to small businesses. The results of that conference were 60 recommendations, which were then presented to Congress, and have since served as a legislative action plan for Congress and the Small Business Administration. The recommendations have been incorporated into untold numbers of congressional bills since that date.

Janis holds an undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Arkansas System, and an MBA from Regis University. Her career shift toward the academic arena began in early 2007, as an adjunct faculty member for the online undergraduate Accounting program of Regis University, a Jesuit school in Denver, Colorado. She joined the ULM faculty as an adjunct member in August of that year, and then as a full time instructor in August of 2008. Janis states an ambition that students will find her Accounting classes interesting and enriching, and that they will be able to apply what they learn to real life.