Pamela Jolicoeur, who was president of Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minn., died on Wednesday after suffering a stroke at her home. She was 65. Before becoming president of Concordia, in 2004, Ms. Jolicoeur spent 32 years at California Lutheran University, where she served as a professor of sociology, vice president for academic affairs, and ultimately provost. “To say that people here are devastated would be an understatement,” Karin Grennan, a spokeswoman for California Lutheran, told the Ventura County Star. Ms. Jolicoeur was also on the board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. In a homecoming speech last year, she indicated that she would be looking hard at ways to help Concordia weather the tough economy. “We are in uncharted territory and many of our sister institutions will have difficulty just surviving,” she said. “Thus we must plan as if our resources will not continue to grow at the same pace as they have. … We are going to force ourselves to consider what we can afford not to do.” She is survived by her husband and a daughter. Concordia will establish a scholarship in her honor.
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2 Responses to President of Concordia College, in Minnesota, Dies After a Stroke
lsansing - June 10, 2010 at 2:36 pm
She was friend and I am saddened to hear of her untimely death.
maxey - June 11, 2010 at 3:13 am
In my over 40 years in higher education including service in large institutions and small, public institutions and private ones, Pam Jolicoeur was the most effective leader I have known. She made everyone around her feel that they had special gifts and talents to contribute and that those contributions were needed and valued. She had vision, boundless energy, a purity of focus and a will to make things better. In all of this, she was inspirational to others. It has been a privilege to have known her and to have worked with her.