Freshman Composition I

Freshman Composition II

Freshman Composition I Summer

In addition to teaching freshman composition courses, I have worked extensively in the administrative side of the college as director of the Public Relations Office, director of the Office of Continuing Education, and chairman of the Divisions of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Fine Arts and Communications.

I have worked and taught at Carl Albert State College since the summer of 1980. I came to Poteau from Weatherford, Okla., where I had been a public relations assistant and sports information director for Southwestern State University for almost six years after completing a master's degree in biological sciences education. I had moved to Weatherford after serving four years in the U.S. Air Force as an information specialist and editing USAF base newspapers at Altus, Okla., and the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs.  Prior to enlisting in the Air Force, I earned a bachelor's degree in journalism with minors in education and biology at Texas Christian University and worked as a general assignment reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  I was CASC’s journalism and photography instructor and public relations director until the summer of 1990 when I moved to the Office of Continuing Education. Two years later, I added division chairman to my duties and served for 10 years as chairman of the Division of Fine Arts & Communications and the Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences.  In the summer of 2002, I resigned as division chair to devote more time to continuing education. In July of 2004, I left continuing education to become a full-time instructor.

Although I retired at the end of the spring 2010 semester, I will continue to teach on a part-time basis.

My office is OC1106 in the Ollie Center for Academic Excellence. My office phone number is (918) 647-1455. You may also contact me through e-mail at chcole@carlalbert.edu and at ckcole4@windstream.net.