Skyline College Cooperative Education

Program Coordinator

CHESTER JONES is the full-time Cooperative Education Coordinator at Skyline College. His background is Business and Counseling.

Office Assistant

MARILYN JEAN . Email jean@smccd.edu

Faculty

MIKE FITZGERALD's academic background includes an AA degree from Skyline College, 1974; BA degree from San Francisco State University, 1977 (Physical Education); MA degree San Francisco State University, 1990 (Physical Education). Mike has been a Skyline College Physical Education Instructor since 1980. He was inducted into the Skyline College "Hall of Fame" in 1987 for his tennis playing ability while a student at Skyline College 1972-1974. He has also coached at the college for the past 22 seasons. In 2000, his women's X-Country team won the first championship for any Women's team in the history of Skyline College. Mike has been involved in the Co-op program since 2001. He enjoys working with people who live and work in the Skyline College community.

JUDITH M. HELDBERG is an adjunct faculty member at Skyline College and at staff at Ohlone College, Fremont, and West Valley Community College, Saratoga. She teaches in the Early Childhood Education Department. Judith has a Masters of Arts in Education, Early Childhood Education (ECE) emphasis from San Francisco State University. Her experience includes classroom teaching pre-K, elementary, high school, college and administrative positions in local ECE facilities.

CLAIRE MULLER-MOSELEY, Assistant Professor, is coordinator of the Skyline College Family and Consumer Sciences Department, and an educator for 28 years. She teaches Foods and Nutrition, Early Childhood Education and Consumer Advocacy classes at Skyline. She is the campus coordinator for the federally funded Child Development Training Consortium, which assists students with tuition reimbursement for Early Childhood Education goals.

PETER PERINO is a part-time instructor in the Skyline College Telecommunications & Network Information Technology Program. He taught the TCOM 100 (Survey of the Telecommunications) class from September 1990-August 2000. His private sector experience includes over 25 years in the telecommunications industry where he held various management positions in the Marketing/Sales and Human Resource areas.

DIETRA PRATER SLACK is an adjunct faculty member at Skyline College. She teaches paralegal courses in the Paralegal and Business Programs. Dietra has a Bachelor of Arts in Administration and Legal processes from Mills College and is completing her Masters of Arts Degree in Education at Hayward State University. Her professional background includes more than twenty years of private practice experience in the legal industry.

KATHLEEN SEMENZA (BA & MA. San Francisco State University) is a part-time evening Cooperative Education Instructor with a BA in Education and an MS in College/Career Counseling. She works full-time as an Office Technology Instructor for the Jefferson U.H.S. Adult Division. In addition she occasionally does academic counseling at Cařada College.

ALLEN WOLFE has been employed with the San Mateo County Community College District for fourteen years. First teaching radio and television arts classes, as well as Counseling and Cooperative Education at College of San Mateo before transferring to Counseling at Skyline College where he now is a Cooperative Education coordinator. This follows a career as a radio announcer in the San Francisco Bay area. Mr. Wolfe earned an AA in Radio /Television from College of San Mateo, BA in Broadcasting Communication Arts and an MA in Counseling from San Francisco State University.

LAVINIA ZANASSI has been an Instructor at Skyline College for 14 years. She has held various faculty and administrative positions in higher education during the past 20 years. Her special areas of interest include social and behavioral sciences, education, communications, and counseling.

 

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