COCC Names Schulz Head of Continuing Education

Central Oregon Community College’s Board of Directors recently named Gerald A. Schulz the director of the college’s continuing education department.

Schulz’s duties include ensuring overall profitability of the continuing education program, organizing contracted training and events throughout the district, monitoring and managing the department’s budget, researching and developing new continuing education programs, expanding the awareness and availability of the continuing education program throughout the region and supervising a staff of nine.

“Significant changes are taking place in the way education and training are delivered,” said Schulz. “My immediate goal is to guide a transition from traditional lecture-style classes to newer methods of engaging our students. I truly enjoy planning and collaborating to bring education to adults.”

Schulz came to COCC in 2010 as the office operations manager, a position that focused on automating and streamlining processes. He also teaches evening classes for COCC Community Learning: “Staying aware and involved with the students and the classroom experience enables me to be a better manager and discover new offerings and improvements for our program.”

Schulz earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California. A native of Pasadena, he worked as a research chemist before he and his wife developed and managed a computer training school for adults, growing it from 1984 until 2006 to become one of the largest private schools of its kind in the San Francisco Bay Area.