Gretchen Susan Schuette was born on 1946 and is an American academic who is President Emeritus of Chemeketa Community College in the US state of Oregon.
12 Facts About Gretchen Schuette
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Gretchen Schuette has been described as "one of the most highly regarded educators and administrators in the West".
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Gretchen Schuette's father was vice president of Dow Chemical Company.
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Gretchen Schuette's family included a sister and a brother; the family lived in Midland, Michigan.
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Gretchen Schuette earned a bachelor's degree in English at Smith College in 1968 and a master's degree in botany at Central Michigan University in 1975.
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Gretchen Schuette held positions as dean of distance and continuing education, as well as director of Portland area programs for Oregon State University, and she was superintendent of the Gresham-Barlow School District.
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Gretchen Schuette was appointed interim commissioner for community colleges and then was named special assistant to Oregon State University's provost for Portland area programs in 1996.
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Gretchen Schuette was OSU's first dean of distance and continuing education and director of Portland area programs.
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From 2001 to 2007, Gretchen Schuette served as president of Chemeketa Community College.
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Gretchen Schuette retired in 2007, and is President Emeritus of the college.
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In 2008 Gretchen Schuette made a US$50,000 donation to the Chemeketa Community Foundation to support the campus art gallery, "to do more exhibits that explore diversity and new viewpoints".
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Gretchen Schuette made the largest donation in the history of the college in 2011, when she gave a charitable remainder unitrust that had been established in 2006 in the amount of US$287,000.