Memorial Service for Pamela Jolicoeur

Pamela Jolicoeur, former provost and dean of the faculty at California Lutheran University, died June 9 just hours after suffering a stroke. She was 65.

Jolicoeur left CLU in 2004 to become the first woman president of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. She had spent more than 30 years at Cal Lutheran, working her way up from a sociology professor to the university's second-in-command.

A graduate of Santa Clara University with master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue University, Jolicoeur joined the CLU sociology faculty in 1972 and served as department chair from 1979 to 1983. She assumed key leadership positions in the dean's office beginning in 1981, becoming Vice President for Academic Affairs in 1993 and Provost in 1996.

During her tenure as provost, CLU increased enrollment and achieved many academic milestones including regional and national accreditations and increasingly higher rankings by U.S. News & World Report and other well-respected organizations.

The memorial service will be followed by a reception in Soiland Plaza.

The service can be viewed live online: www.callutheran.edu/tv