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in Omagh County, chosen spot of all the earth as far as nature is concerned, According to the famed plant wizard Luther Burbank Diverse County, with 1,010,000 acres of land and 1574 miles of scenic roadways, Cinema County is rightfully famed for its agriculture did a culture, industry

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and recreation as well as for the amazingly successful ethnic and economic mixture of its more than 340,000 residents on for the forward looking philosophy of its local governing bodies. Now we invite you to take a closer look at Sonoma County in the eighties with your host,

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rich McGlinchy. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Glad to have you with us on this edition of cinema count in the eighties, we're going to be talking to two members of the Santa Rosa Junior College staff were gonna learn a little bit more about the some of

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the programs there, and we're going to be talking to on the right of your screen, Ricardo Navarette, who is the assistant dean of admissions and records. And we're also going to be talking to Sandy Martinez. And she's the manager of scholarship outreach office We're going to

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talk to both of them in just a moment. But before we do that, we like to call your attention the work of our guest artists today, our guest artists, Joe Hoffman from Sonoma. You're looking at the Race of the Century, which features the same man award

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in front. And this is a piece of work, incidentally, that prints are available for you could reach them, get them rather by calling Kaufman in Occidental, Joe Hoffman in Occidental. Then there's another picture of his over here. And this is manna wars. The three year old.

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And I think these are two of the amazing pieces of horse arc that I've seen in a long, long time. And we certainly thank you, Joe, for allowing us to have them on the program. Sandy, how are you? Thank you. Pleasure to have you here. Yeah.

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All right. Let's find out. What? What did you do? Why don't we ask both of you? First of all, what's a little background about you, Ricardo? Where you from? What did you do before you came here? Well, rich on new to Sonoma County, I've been working

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with community colleges for about nine years now, Originally from Orange County. Uh, I went to school in Orange County, went on to university in Los Angeles area. I have a background in English and in counseling. I made my way up to San Jose, where I worked

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at West Valley College and just started with Santa Rosa Junior College last April was I've only been with the J. C for well, about half a year now, and I'm enjoying it immensely. Great. Uh, married family? Definitely. I have a wife. Her name is loose. I

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have four small Children, and presently they're all attending ST Rose school here in Santa Rosa. Sandy, how about duplicating the same on yourself? I've been working at Santa Rosa Junior College for nine years now, and I started as the director of what was called the Operation

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Share Program, a tutorial program housed at the college. And from there I worked in student services in the student employment office and have held my current position. Is manager of scholarships and outreach for the last 2.5, almost three years now, and I'm a native Californian. Um,

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went to school at Cal State Hayward and U. C Davis have my teaching credential, and I'm married and have no Children but have a wonderful husband. First things first, right? All right, required of it. Let's start with you. What kind of student is going to settle

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a junior college these days? Well, the profile of our student has changed over the years. Were excited about the kinds of students that are going to Santa Rosa Junior College in our data analysis and are looking at the student body. We see that we are attracting

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a broad spectrum of students. That pretty much reflects the nature of the county and the community that we're serving. Uh, we have students of all ages we've seen in recent years that were attracting an older student. The average age of a student at the J. C.

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Now is a little bit over 30 years of age, and the most recent years, our greatest growth profile has been in the older eight segments, the group's over 50 and even over 60 eso age wise, the full spectrum of ages. We are attracting a lot of

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female students. In fact, the majority of the campuses, now female close to 58% of our students for females. Uh, we are attracting reentry students that is, people who did not go to college right away who do not go to school right after graduation from high school,

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for instance, we're attracting a lot of folks who are interested in developing their skills for better employment opportunities who may only be interested in a short course, for instance, or a one semester enrollment. We still have our traditional student body as well. We have a high

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percentage of students coming right out of high school. In fact, we have one of the highest percentages of, uh, graduates from local high schools attending the J. C in the entire state, and we're very proud of that. We have a lot of students who are interested

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in transferring to a university who can fulfill the requirements that Santa Rosa Junior College and go on to Berkeley or Saddam estate or U C. Davis etcetera. Um, asking that is JC really suited them for transfer to to university students. Yes, it is definitely there's been

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in recent years Ah, lot of emphasis on the transfer experience that is making sure that a student who enters any community college, including Santa Rosa Junior College that we have very specific articulation agreements with our neighboring universities so that a student can begin their lower division

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general education requirements at the J. C, fulfill them there and then articulate directly into a university such a cinema state or U C. Berkeley. Uh, I say there's been a lot of emphasis in that, because I'll have to admit some colleges throughout the state perhaps did

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not make that transition as easy it should as it should have been. Uh, it's my understanding that the junior college has always emphasised transfer education, enabling our students to go on. So it is a good start for a student start their program at the J. C

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and then eventually go on to transfer. And that's one of the goals that we have with our student body. What if todo want instructional innovations, new developments? That's everything. Is JC offering or planning to offer? What we're trying to do in kind of a dynamic atmosphere

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is keep in touch with the trends and the changes that are going on in our community. We are a junior college, and we're under the general ages of community colleges and we take that mission toe heart, so we try to keep in touch with what's going

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on around us. So innovations in all of our programs in the occupational curricula, academic curricula were keeping up with what the changing needs are. An industry, um, we have developed programs. Well, television. In turn, the media is a growing industry in business in this county and

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all three California. We have a very sophisticated program in media communications, and we enable our students to get internship experiences. Um, computers. There has been an explosion of computer technology of all three United States and through the world. Well, we're in touch with that, and we

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have developed an extensive array. Of course, is that focus on microcomputers, especially. That's one of the biggest trends going on microcomputers in the workplace and education throughout society in the home. So we're focusing on that We have looked at short courses, a lot of adult learners.

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I mentioned that the average ages, our student body, is aging. Well, some folks are interested in getting in and out real quickly. They wanna learn something in a month or two months and then be able to satisfy their interest their need and then toe leave it

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well. We have courses that begin every month. We have a special schedule of classes for, say, September, October, November and December. So these air a few innovations that have really kept Santa Rosa Junior College at the forefront of curricular development throughout the state. One of things

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that weren't meant to ask you a motor to ago got a sequencer. But who is eligible to attend Side Russia Junior College? And maybe add to that, How does someone find out more about the coverage? Well, our eligibility criteria is pretty simple. Uh, you need to

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be a high school graduate or 18 years of age or have already passed the high school proficiency exam. In any of those cases, you are eligible to attend courses at the J. C. Now we do have some programs that are impacted. That means we have additional

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admissions criteria. Are health occupations, for instance, our Criminal Justice Training Center, for instance, some of those cases student may have to make special application because there are far more students who want into those programs, and we have limited seat occupancy, but in general it's pretty easy

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to get into the junior college to be admitted to get more information. Ah, students should any person out there should simply contact the junior college, write us a letter will send an application out, call us on the telephone or visit us in Bailey Hall and will

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outline the specific steps one needs to take. We are gearing up right now for spring semester. It begins in February, but our schedules of classes are going out and people can get a hold of the schedule and apply for school in that fashion as well. Is

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the J. C a healthy college right now? We believe so. All the indicators of health that we look at constantly our show a very strong profile for our college financially were very solvent. We have a good reserve that will help us in days to come. In

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case we come along across some bad times. We have a strong faculty. The faculty has a reputation throughout the state and in national organizations, good signs of health and the faculty. We have an administration that's committed to keeping in touch with our community and the trends

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that are affecting Sonoma County. Uh, our growth in terms of enrollment at some points astounds me. It keeps us very, very busy in the registration area of We're looking at over 26,000 students during the fall semester of right now, and we've looked at the past four

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years a constant growth profile. We've increased enrollment some 14 15% in the past four years. So all the indicators of health that we can point to are good signs. And also, I might add that we have a lot of visits from folks around the state and

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even from out of the country who heard about Santa Rosa Junior College and want to find out why we've been successful as we have been. We're going to pause right here and let our station bring the audience a public service announcement. When we come back, we're

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As offspring are shared with neighbours, a single gift is multiplied. Heffer Project international people to people in friendship and peace. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to this edition of Sonoma County in the eighties. We're talking Teoh Sandy Martinez, the manager of scholarship in the outreach office

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at the center of your college. And we have just been talking to Ricardo. Never it. Who is the assistant dean of admissions and records Now, Sandy, Um, you are the manager of scholarship and the outreach office. What type of financial aid is available for students? It's

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at Santa Rosa Junior College, really has a great deal of financial assistance to provide to students and we provide that assistance, really through two main offices on campus. We have our financial aid office, and then we have the scholarship office, which is the program that I'm

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in charge of through the Financial Aid Office. We award the federal and state AIDS, such as Pell Grants, College Works Day guaranteed student loans, the Calgon Grant programs, those air probably terms that most people are familiar with. They also handle some other supplemental grant programs and

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some other Theus assistant type of programs. Through my office, I distribute information about all of the S R. J C scholarships as well as any local, state or national scholarship that we get sent to us. And, um so we're really the central resource for all scholarship

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information. I an off campus, your dial scholarships. You are a wonderful source of revenue for youngsters are very much, though, scholarship to. I was told it is just a little bit of history on the Doyle scholarship. It started back in 1949 when Frank Doyle, who was

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ah, president of Exchange Bank, arranged to have 50.39% of his dividend stock dividend from Exchange Bank set up in a perpetual trust. And out of that, each year a few $1000 is set aside for the maintenance of Doyle Park. And then the junior college gets the

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bulk of the money to award in scholarships. And just to give you an idea of how much money we received last year, we got $510,000. So exchange banks doing very well. And it's really a unique partnership that we have with the bank and the college. Probably

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one of its kind. Yes, all right for this school year, Justus An example. How much money was awarded to the financial aid office and then to how many students you remember through the financial aid office. We awarded around $4 million that went out to around 5000

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students. $4 million right? That would be in this state and federal aid programs. That's really that's That's amazing, isn't, um what type I should save. Scholarships are available. It s R. J. C. At the college. We have a variety of scholarships that are available. We have

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scholarships that are specifically for S. R. J C students, and many of these are directly related to what a student is majoring in. We have, for instance, a lot of nursing scholarships, administration of justice, scholarships, agricultural scholarships, arts scholarships. The list really goes on and on

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their probably. It's a scholarship for just about every major, whether it's a vocational program or a transfer program. We also have a number of scholarships that are offered from various community organizations, some of these air targeted for certain kinds of students. Ricardo mentioned that the reentry

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population is really growing, and I'm seeing more and more community groups supporting the reentry student, and we have a number of those scholarships we get, Ah, a lot of community support from Rotary clubs, Lions clubs, those types of organizations. And then, of course, the Doyle scholarship

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that is our largest scholarship program. Sandy. What's the difference between the financial assistance offered through the financial aid office? Let's say, and scholarship office, the primary different, right? It's all money. It all helps. The primary difference, really, is that to qualify for federal and state assistant

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students do have to have a certain level of financial need, and that need is determined by the student filling out what's called a student aid application or the sack S A C, and those applications are available after the first of the year through the financial aid

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office and my office. Um scholarships, on the other hand, aren't necessarily awarded on need. And that's the really nice part about scholarship money Many students don't have, ah, what the state and federal programs consider to be financial need, but it's still important for them to get

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some kind of financial assistance to go to school. And it's also nice to have that recognition that comes with scholarship money. So a lot of the scholarships are awarded primarily on merit, which would be based on your G p A. The Doyle scholarship is really a

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merit based award, and many scholarships were given on talent or ability, such as our music and arts scholarships. We have reentry scholarships. Different kinds of community involvement can qualify students, so it's really that need versus ability, talent, potential. There's something here I think we're throwing. What

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steps should a potential student take now to find out about financial aid and or scholarship money? Okay, now is really the time for students to come into my office and the financial aid office and start getting the information as I mentioned the first of the year's

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when all of our applications are available. And, um so the first step is to come into the office and pick up the applications, find out what you do qualify for as a student. The other thing that students can do is attend one of our financial aid

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workshops. Those start, um, Thursday afternoons, I believe January 15th and they run through February. They're held in Pioneer Hall, which is next to our bookstore in the afternoon. Um, or they can attend one of our Tuesday evening workshops, and those are offered late in January, early

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in February. If a student is unable to come to a workshop, then by coming into our office and talking to us individually, they could get all the information they need. Okay, um, jump for one to the other and back again. Ricardo, what about the status of

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other community colleges in California? Now we hear about, ah, a lot of problems on a statewide basis. Um, are there and what are the critical problem? Station centers, JC, if any. Well, that's a good question, Rich. We feel that were a little bit different than the

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rest of the state we have. A longstanding tradition in this community, in fact, will be approaching our 70th anniversary in 1988. So just a couple of years away. But there are critical issues facing the entire state, and some of them we share. There is a general

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feeling in Sacramento that among the legislators and the governor in certain commissions that community colleges in general have not done enough to make sure that the students that enroll actually complete something have something at the end, something concrete at the end of their career in a

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college. And that means either a degree of certificate or transferring on. And there may be some colleges throughout the state that have not done as good a job as they could have. We don't believe that's true with the J. C. Uh, we had close to well,

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798 degrees conferred, uh, this past year close to 600 certificates in occupational area and 5 to 600 student that transferred onto universities. Uh, but we do face some critical issues. There is a general decline in basic skills. I think we've heard about that in our elementary

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schools and high schools. Well, that's true right here in Sonoma County, the television generation. They're not our people. Our students are not learning to read and write as well as they used to. The college is facing that issue in terms of basic skills. How can a

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student succeed in a difficult, ah philosophy class or a social science class, or even an occupational class? When the reading texts levels are at a level far beyond their reading ability? We are studying that problem, and we're doing things about it. We're going Teoh, look at

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the basic skills of our students and find ways to improve them. So that's a big issue. Then we kind of distinguish ourselves from the rest of the state because we face other issues. Enrollment, growth. Uh, we have grown constantly over the past 45 years, and eventually

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we will become impacted on our campus. We're looking at facilities were looking at parking Uh, besides the academic and program issues. So there are problems that we're facing, and we recognize those problems, and we're now throughout the administration with leadership of the president looking at ways

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to strategies to approach the problems and resolve them. So our program, our problems, perhaps, reflects Sonoma County, and that is problems of growth. How do we handle growth? Is bigger really better? Uh, so again, we reflect the entire county Two questions quickly here because we're down

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to a couple of minutes. Um, Sandy, we're looking at the cost of going to college. How does attending the junior college compare with the cost of attending one of the California University California campuses? Quarter State College? Good question. Um, it's much more reasonable to attend the

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junior college. We put out a monthly newsletter, and we put these figures together recently and in looking at what it costs to go to you see campus. This year it was around 13 to $1400 just for the tuition. For a state college, it was $573. I

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believe at the J. C. R. Registration fee is $100 for the year for a full time student. So there's a marked difference. Sure, and if I always encouraged everybody from here to go to our own, I went to John graduated and I've always urged everybody that

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I know was from this area. Girl just really do not only is it an outstanding scholastic institution, but it's going to be a devil of a lot cheaper unless of a strain on the budget to go here for two years and finished on that money that

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you say you can put towards your upper divisions work when you transfer for grad school. That's quickly a question for you. What Sandra is that JC's doing to prepare for future primary Everything possible heavy that way needed you stay in touch with this community. Yeah, that's

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the best way to prepare for the future. There have been some discussion on megatrends affecting Sonoma County. Our management team or faculty are keeping in touch with those megatrends. All of our programs and the occupational area have advisory committees comprised of leadership from industry and business.

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So we keep in touch with the changing needs are our faculty programs are students. Service programs go through periodic program review, so we're constantly refining our product, looking at the community, seeing what changes are evident there and as the demand requires changing, changing with the time.

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So in preparing for the future, we need to remain a dynamic, flexible institution that can provide the academic occupational programs and still maintain the academic standards that this community demands. May I take great pride in my A From here? And I have it in a place

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of honor I want I want to send is a state after that. But I really, really had a had a wonderful time in sandals and J. C. And I got to spend a portion of my education, thanks to both of you. Thank you. Go to not

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very much time. So we're going to have to speed it up. Men In general, we've been talking to Ricardo. Never read the assistant dean of admissions records for junior college talking to Sandy Martinez and Sandy is manager of scholarship and the outreach office at Santa Rosa

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Junior College. My name is rich. McGlinchey programs and only communities will be back next week with a member of the county government. Family are fabulous institutions such a junior college Until it So long. Good luck. Good health. Good night.