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Pacific Oaks College    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
 
  Dec 02, 2024
 
2024-2025 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook

Introduction


Pacific Oaks College offers both bachelor’s and master’s degree programs with a culture-centered education approach. This approach defines who we are as a community of learners and emphasizes the value we place on both human difference and commonality. Throughout every aspect of the Pacific Oaks experience, students are encouraged to recognize and nurture the uniqueness and inherent potential that each brings to the table, and to use the diversity of experience, heredity, abilities, and perspective to create a community of mutual understanding and respect.

Governance, Leadership and Administration

Pacific Oaks College is governed by a Board of Trustees, which meets three times a year and oversees policy decisions for areas that include academic affairs, institutional advancement, student services, and business and financial affairs.

Board of Trustees

Valerie Coachman-Moore, M.P.H. (Chair)

Fred Marcus, Esq., (Vice Chair)

Kathy Dossett, Ph.D. 

Ryan Eisenberg, Ed.D

Michael Horowitz, Ph.D.

Dawn A. Kurtz, Ph.D.

Terrence “Joe” Layng, Ph.D.

Stacey Lydon, M.A.

Breeda McGrath, Ph.D., President 

Teresa Nuno, M.Ed

Sharon Shelton, M.A.

Janet Twyman, Ph.D.

Sydney Williams, J.D. 

Patricia A. Breen Ph.D., President Emeritus

Priscilla Burgess Gamb, Life Trustee

Dorothy Farris, Trustee Emeritus

Office of the President

Dr. Breeda McGrath  is the President of Pacific Oaks College & Children’s School.

President’s Cabinet

Reporting directly to the president and overseeing the day-to-day operations of Pacific Oaks College & Children’s School are members of the Cabinet.
 

Carrie B. Zalkind, Chief of Staff, Secretary to Cabinet*

Jane Sawyer, Vice President of Human Resources & Organizational Effectiveness*

Michael Patton, Dean of Students*

Nubian London, Associate Vice President, Admissions*

Alexandra Pototskaya, Director of Finance*

Jerell Hill, Ed.D., Dean, School of Human Development and Education

Terry Webster, Ph.D., Dean, School of Cultural and Family Psychology

Gabriel Jones, Ph.D., Vice President of Academic Affairs/Chief Academic Officer & Accreditation Liaison Office (ALO)*

Victor Soto, Executive Director, Pacific Oaks Children’s School*

Judith Krause, Ed.D., Associate Dean, School of Human Development & Education

Mary Berberian, Registrar 

*Members of Executive Cabinet



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