CEO and Vice Provost, OSU-Cascades

Office Address: Newberry Hall
Phone: 541-322-3100
Fax: 541-383-7501
E-mail: diana.sloane@osucascades.edu

Diana Sloane came to her position with Oregon State University after completing four years as Country Director for the United State Peace Corps Program in The Gambia, West Africa. The program trains and supports more than 100 volunteers working in education, health and the environment. Prior to securing this position, Dr. Sloane served as the Executive Dean at Antioch University Santa Barbara, a small liberal arts college offering Master's Degrees in Education, Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Organizational Management. From 1997-2001, she was vice chancellor for education and technology for the Los Rios Community College District, the nation's fifth largest community college district, enrolling 65,000 students in four colleges. While at Los Rios, Dr. Sloane led a statewide global education task force designed to build legislative support for the integration of an international perspective into community college education. She provided leadership for EDNet, the statewide economic development network that brought the community college system together with business and industry in a partnership to support industry-specific economic development initiatives. She launched an orientation program for the 60 new full-time faculty hired each year and developed a 12-unit certificate program with California State University Sacramento to acquaint aspiring faculty with community college education.

From 1995-97, Dr. Sloane served as vice president of academic and student services at Lake Michigan College in economically depressed Benton Harbor, Michigan, where the college was the heart and hope of the community. For 10 years she was a Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of the Associate Degree Nursing Program at Santa Barbara City College where she taught nursing for 14 years. During her tenure as Dean, she served as the Chair of the college's Curriculum Committee and coordinated the college's Matriculation Program aimed at the assessment, placement and ongoing support of students to foster their retention. For five years Dr. Sloane served on Santa Barbara City College's foundation board, the leading community college foundation in California. She has secured numerous grants totaling over 8.5 million dollars. She represented the administration during the college's first contract negotiations with faculty.

Dr. Sloane has had extensive experience in budget and resource development, facilities planning, enrollment management, contract education, information technology and strategic planning. She has worked with, hired, mentored, supervised and evaluated a wide range of employees. She has been a public health nurse in New Haven, Connecticut and served for two year as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural public health program in Mysore, India. Her teaching career began in an urban education Teacher Corps project in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Dr. Sloane has a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from the University of Connecticut, a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from The University of Texas at Austin. She grew up in a large family in rural Connecticut picking tobacco to fund her college education.