CCC Welcomes New Vice President of Instruction
Clatsop Community College
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 18, 2007
Contact: President's Office, 338-2425
PHOTO ATTACHED: Dr. Stephen Schoonmaker
CCC Welcomes New Vice President of Instruction
Dr. Stephen Schoonmaker has been hired as Vice President of Instruction
at Clatsop Community College where he will oversee all credit and non-credit
instruction at the college. Dr. Schoonmaker is coming to Clatsop from Southwestern
Oregon Community College in Coos Bay, where he has served as Vice President
of Instruction and Student Services. He will assume his duties at CCC in
mid-October.
"I am looking forward to working with the faculty, staff, and students
at
Clatsop," says Schoonmaker. "I also am excited to be joining
the College's leadership team at an important juncture in terms of developing
a learning environment that more fully meets the needs of students and
the community. I am pleased to offer my experience and background to this
effort."
Dr. Schoonmaker's academic credentials include a doctorate in Educational
Administration from New Mexico State University, a masters in College Student
Personnel Administration from Western Illinois University and a bachelors
in Sociology from the University of Vermont. A native Vermonter, he is
no stranger to Oregon higher education having worked in the 1980's and
1990's at Willamette University in Salem, Reed College in Portland, and
Western Oregon University in Monmouth. Prior to returning to Oregon in
2005, he spent several years working as an administrator and faculty member
at a branch 2-year campus of the University of New Mexico in Los Lunas
and at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque.