OCC Names Dean for Health Sciences

Susan M. Coleman, a home economics professor at Orange Coast College since 1975, has been named acting dean for the college’s consumer health sciences division, which offers two dozen different academic and vocational programs and enrolls nearly 5,000 students.

An Irvine resident, Coleman received a BA degree in home economics and interiors from the University of Arizona and an MBA degree from Pepperdine University before becoming a part-time instructor at San Jose State University and working at an interior design firm in San Jose. She is past treasurer of the Interior Design Educators Council and a member of the American Society of Interior Designers, the Institute of Business Designers and the International Society of Interior Designers. Her term as acting dean is effective through June 30, 1987.