New director at COCC helm

Celeste Douville of Bend is the new director of the Sisters Center of Central Oregon Community College.

Douville replaced Lucy Burton as director when Burton left to pursue other interests.

"COCC offers two types of courses at this location," Douville said. "The Sisters Center is an open campus with core curriculum credit classes. These are subjects required for an AA (Associate Arts) degree."

Students attend these classes at the Sisters Center located at 160 S. Oak Street, and are connected via large-screen television to the classroom on the Bend campus. In these "interactive" classes, students at the Sisters location can see and hear the instructor and the classroom interactions and they can ask questions of the instructor, Douville said.

Community education clas-ses are also taught through the Sisters Center and are very popular, according to Douville.

These noncredit classes are taught by experts in their fields.

"We offer a whole host of subjects," Douville said.

These include computers, yoga, watercolor painting and pottery, among many others.

"This year we have a new Pentium III Lab for our computer classes," Douville said. "We're really excited about that. But we still have Macs for those who really want them."

Douville worked for the past three years as director at the Prineville center of COCC before she accepted the Sisters assignment. She graduated from Redmond High School and Western Oregon State College then attended the University of Wisconson, La Crosse, for her master's degree.

Fees for credit classes at the Sisters campus of COCC are $39 plus a $1.50 student services fee per credit hour, the same as classes on the Bend campus. Some classes have additional lab fees. Scholorships are available in some cases and deferred tuition is also an option.

Fees for noncredit classes vary widely depending on the class. Schedules for these classes will be available on September 1 at the center in Sisters.

For more information call 549-7331.