As of 2014 Bonnie Peters has been serving as the Chief Student Services Officer (CSSO) for the
California Virtual Campus-Online Education Initiative (CVC-OEI). In her current role she
provides administrative and programmatic leadership for the CVC-OEI Online Student
Experience Division. Prior to 2014, Ms. Peters spent fifteen (15) years at San Diego City
College in various student services positions which included counseling and teaching students
both on campus and online. Throughout those fifteen years, she accumulated a great of
educational leadership experience by serving in the following positions: Department Chair of
Counseling, Interim Director of Transition Services (Transfer and Career ), and Program
Manager of First Year Services at San Diego City College. In 2005 she developed San Diego
City College’s online counseling program, a first among Community colleges both regionally and
nationally.
Ms. Peters is a trained career counselor and a trained distance-counseling professional. She
holds an M.S. in Counseling. In 2011 it was her interest in integrating student support services
into the online education arena which prompted her pursuit of a second M.A in Teaching and
Learning with Technology. For the past 12 years, her professional endeavors have been
focused on working with and encouraging colleges to intentionally provide support services as
an integral and mainstreamed part of a college’s Distance Education Program. The eventual
goal being, to ensure that all students and the “whole student” have the support they need as
they pursue academic success in the online learning environment.
