Santa Rosa Junior College, with Dr. Roy Mikalson, President

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a closer look at Sonoma County in the eighties with your host, Rich McGlinchy, Theo. Glad you could join us for this edition of way if we have an interesting program for you. If you follow us week by week. You know that on this program we interview

different officials, county government officials, city officials, nonprofit agencies. Today, we're going to be interviewing the president of Santa Rosa Junior College. We do this in order to provide you with a little better understanding of what services are available, where, when and at what cost. If Eddie,

before we actually get into the question and answer with Doctor Michaelson. Whoever I want to call your attention to the artwork on the set today. This is by Joe Hoffman, who's a professional artist and illustrator and has been for 50 years. He specialized in horse sport

art since 1970. Now the first features doing is a piece of sculptor. This is Arctic Breeze a second. Who is that stead in Maryland? Then we have Old Bones exterminator. This horse won the Kentucky Derby in 1918. It won 50 out of 100 starts at distances

from five furlongs that's vibrates a mile to two on 1/4 mile. At last May, Sir Barks and Sir Barton was the first Triple Crown winner in the history of racing in the United States. He won the Triple Crown in 1919. Now, General Hoffman is probably best

known for his Race of the Century 20 by 24 lithographs, which are available if you wish to contact Hawkman in Occidental. So much for our beautiful artwork and thank you, Joe Hoffman and High Really Michaelson. Dr Roy Michaelson, the president of the Standards in Junior college

and Dr Michaels and you visited with two or three years ago, but been a long time and a lot of people have come into the county, and they're not familiar yet with our educational institutions and especially our outstanding junior college. So, uh, we'll get into that

a little bit before we do that. How about a little background about Dr Roy Markets? Where you from? Where do you go to school? What did you do before you took over? I went to school. I started school in Montana State College one year now they

got into the service. The service got to me, I should say. And I was mobilized with the National Guards in early and before the war and when overseas for 3.5 years and World War two and came back in 1945. I went to University of Washington and

I taught at the University of Montana, went into junior colleges in 1950 have been in junior college work ever since. But, uh, my most recent I've been here this my 18th year here is President Prior that I was president of Modesto Junior College three years, and

just before that, I was the founding president of Clackamas Community college in Oregon. And before that, I was 12 years and lower Columbia and long to Washington. But you've been present in three different institutions. President. Three different students Think the thing. That's very interesting about Santa

Rosa junior colleges. You are only the third president in the history of Santa Rosa Junior College. And it goes back Teoh about 71 years now. We're in the 71st year. Yes. Uh, do you read? Did you become your Central JC president? 1971. This my 18 18

here, Roy. Okay, Uh, how big was the college? Remember, it was about 10,000 then overall, 10,000 night ever again. And by comparison, now it's over 30,000. Every sinister, is it? Really? It's when it's one. The very large single campus colleges in the country. All right, let's

point just briefly go back even before your time. Who were your predecessors of Jaycee And how long did they served? Well, the 1st 1 was Floyd Bailey, who serve from, uh is president or charges Dean with whatever the name was called in from 1918 to 19.

57 and then ran. Newman was from 1957 through, uh, 1970. And then Brooke Dowser was interim president for a brief time, and I came on the scene. G a short it broke. We have to give him credit for being an interim president. Don't wait for a

year. Daresay we find he's doing a history of college. Continuing the Bailey history from Bailey's time through Newman Time Through my time Michael visit was a couple of years ago. Brooke Hauser was his co guest. Talked about. He was returning from a natural duty there that

was going to put together this history. Now, in 1970 Chimney Run. Rather, you came here in 1988. The college actually celebrated its 79 works here in business. I guess you'd say, What did you do to observe that way? Had a lot of key speakers on campus.

We produced some films on campuses history. And then we had a big celebration down the the oil. That's right. Get a red line. What was called 77? The others yourself? 70th anniversary? Yeah, that was really great, Big one. I know. I attended. Really? In your opinion,

what is the role of the junior college or the community college today. Well, I think the community college today is a great big factor for giving those people who might not have gone to college an opportunity to go to college and also to provide a first

class 1st 2 years of college for everybody. And we're rather fortunate here, and we have the oil trust, and we give a $1,000,000 plus with the scholarships to our better students in the county. So we have a very high run of students. We provide the 1st

2 years of transfer programs for those people and a lot of others, plus first rate vocational programs that that Doyle trust that goes back quite a few years. And what does? How much does that provide? Approximately a year yet? Uh, the last couple years, it's It's

been 3/4 of a 1,000,000. That's diverse. Just spread your students all over the county. Yes, that goes toe. The graduating seniors and two special ones were doing some starting do some work with minority students. Now vocational students with that, too. We've diversified it. That's great. Now

that that was all started by Frank Doyle. Way back women. There's just 49 basically, and it just grown tremendously. It's when is one of its kind in the country. All right. A lot of the kids come to the cool here on the Doyle scholarships and otherwise,

And I know they plan to go ahead and continue their education. Would you say most of the kids and start out that way? Go on to a four year college? Ah, big percentage of them. You start that way. You start with the goal of going to

a four year institution. Achieved their goal. Yes. They're here with us. What, One year to another here. Most of them are two years. What we what we offer an associate of Arctic decreased associate. Nice degree. Yes. And social science degree. Okay. Um I know, for instance,

having gone to several junior college and incidentally, way back to Ram Ruined was my veterans counselor at that time. But it was good enough to take a look at what I wanted to go to school or last two years. Told me what the take. I took

them and got decent grades. And when I got to that school, I had upper division, clear period, and it seemed like everybody from all these girls are around to keep the state we're coming in with without being clear. They had a lot of things they hadn't

hadn't taken. Now, where did that have been? Just not being offered by the schools or maybe poor. It's probably a combination of several things. One is that being large. We have full assortment, a program range of programs for almost all majors. So and we have a

reputation as being one of the premier transfer institutions in the state may be in the nation. Are our students do exceptionally well when they go to University of California, Stanford. We don't experience any trouble with transfers requirements at all. Have you got any good? Do we

have any idea? I think Brooke mentioned a couple of years ago. We do have some idea of how the youngster do. How do our posters fair when it going before they do? Very well, they they Usually, when they transfer from it Junior college, their graves will

drop at the university. We have the odd phenomenon in most cases are students. Grades increase when they go transferred. University, that's great. And Davis and UC Berkeley and Stanford the 33 of the premier institutions. We have a very high reputation with those three institutions. Fact. We

have a Davis Camp counselor on campus one day a week. Cautious. Help! Help the transfer students. You know, I don't know that they actually rank our junior colleges or community colleges one or two. But throughout the state, I had the pleasure of traveling. Dropped the state

quite a bit in the last, uh, 15 or 20 years and river I go and talk to educational people. They cite our colleges being one of two of the best in the state. I mean, you didn't know that kind of Eddie is. We don't have any

official ranking. But of course, the colleges universities sort of rank is informally their own ranking. And we're right toward at the top one of the top 235 whatever you want to pick. And we have the last statistics to prove how are nurses do and board scores.

How are Elektronik? Students do how the other students do So we have a lot of data that shows that we think were pretty good. And I think we are. You're talking a little bit about our campus itself. You said We've got about 30,000 students now describe

about campus a little bitter. What's what's basically there and what's new there. Well, were any room to put anything else? No, there isn't any room to put anything else now. We wish we had about 50 acres for parking, but we're built, uh, to the maximum we

have. Well, since I've been here 18 years, we've built about seven or eight major buildings were constructing the latest one Mangini Hall, which is the also the largest one. And we re remodeled almost all the other buildings. So we have, I think, of first rate campuses,

one of most beautiful campuses I know you have ever seen. And the students take very good care of it. Our groundskeeper take very good care of it. So it it's sort of a showplace for the town. I think. Well, I couldn't agree with you more, and

I take great pride in the fact that I graduated channels of junior college and one of the reasons I do so is because I had such great affection for Freud. Bailey. He was a man who and then ran and then yourself, Brooke have all installed that

feeling of pride in that campus, and you could buy a menacing around look at that campus. There isn't a more beautiful instead of oak trees or anything in the world. I don't think that I think we everybody's proud of. We have a great bunch of people

that certificated the teachers, the counselors, librarians and then the classified managers. It's, uh, I think the well operated institution and this one. As you said, everyone takes pride in it and his pride in their work, what they do and achievements of the college. Uh, right. How

many people do you have in the instruction department? Off approximately well, in the teachers we know because the FFT is trying to unionize and we had to turn in a list and a full time and five time teachers. It was 1302 or three. Something like There

are other people now that keeps that are not certificated. Teachers are all credential, wrote that credential then the classified I don't know. We have three or 400 classified people. Um, there's a couple other things I want to talk about, but I think we're pause right about

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it go away. Welcome back, to this tradition of cinema count in the eighties, we're talking to Dr Ruin Michaelson, the president of Santa Rosa Junior College. We've been talking about the background of the colleagues, the fact that Doctor Michaelson is the actual third president. Well, if

we sneak Brooke Hauser in there for one year is interim. President makes four. But, Dr uh, brother Floyd Bailey, Rand Newman, look, Dowser and Dr Roy Michaelson have been the only president at the junior college in a 71 year history, which is pretty amazing. Um, right

when we left a moment ago, we were talking about the fact that the community college system is supposedly going through a reform at this time. What does this mean? Well, every periodically higher education goes through a review higher education in stay in state and this year

or last about two or three years. The focus was in higher education within the community colleges because quite a few of the junior colleges community colleges were having difficulty. They were losing enrollment very rapidly. They're having financial troubles. And so they were taking a hard look

at community colleges. So last fall, the last legislative session they passed Assembly bill 17 25 which is the so called reform bill for community colleges. And it has a lot of it's going to be a financial reform, a different type of financing, although not technically to

be quite different. It reviews the employment issues and a lot of other things, but essentially, uh, it won't affect us a great deal. We're about where the reform wanted this to be when it's all reformed, particular ation process and better, better counselling, more counseling in that

type of thing. But I think probably the 15 top community college districts I won't go through much reform at all. But, uh, there were some that needed some reform. Well, this tactically points out the fact that senators during the colleges we've been saying here, boosting it,

of course. But nonetheless, the truth has four seen much of this, and it's set to the task of doing it in advance of being asked to do it by the state. That demand, that's basically correct. Way have a lot of things going for him. One is

continuity, you know, we've only had about 28 board members in the history of the school. That's a that's a new alma genie and has been there for a lifetime. And most of board members come and stay a long time. Provide continuity Also in the administration, we've

had continuity in the faculty. We have a great deal of continuity. We hit, we attract the best teachers, I think, from all around the state, in the nation. And they come and they stay. So it really pays when you're building a program to have the good

people stay What I remember. Once again, we're going back to the time I spent a junior college. The instructors were more of us. I mean, remember maker like Al Hunter, who passed away recently in the city, Patzer, Georgia and Drini. These people were, and of course,

our Bob master cooks for our coaches. But these people really dedicated and high level teachers, and we have kept faced with that right on through to today. It's just the same quality on different names, different people. Yeah, but and Carly have never done that is what

one of the things We don't have any collective bargaining right now, but and I won't mention that, but we we've for last 18 years we've settled things of salary, working conditions and everything. Working with three members, the board myself on the business manager, working with the

committee from the Academic Senate, and we've done it at a low key without any disruptions. And it sort of shows the workings on campus of the key people just the good will of everybody involved. That's one of the things that I've always felt great pride in

there. It seems that everybody shows goodwill when it comes to dealing with these hard subjects, such as negotiation. And they show the goodwill toward the district in the college rather than personal exactly benefits. Uh, what about the colleges viticulture program that's been on for some time?

What's new in, uh, well, it it keeps going. We have now six varieties of wines that we grow on Dry Creek Winery. I'll give them a plug. It has vented the chardonnay, and now they've ended the scholars white, which we've been marketing on, And, uh, those

scholars, white, incidentally, plug again. If you haven't to try to try it, it's available. I know it reversals in some places, but it's a It's an excellent wine. Our chardonnay was good, but I think the scholars white has been even better. This is this is amazing.

How long is the viticulture program would actually in it? Well, we got the farm about 16 years ago, so it's been in there about 12 14 years now. And it's been a really cooperative effort among the people at the college and the Communion wine community, the

viticulture commune. Who's involved in that at the college level? Rich Thomas, mainly right? Yeah. Uh, if you've met Rich, you'll never get rich, Thomas. But he's headed that up. And he's also very active in the community of viticulture and has a very excellent reputation, a very

good background from Davis. So our wine grapes are among the premier grapes in the county. We we've had the two wines, but we've also sold grapes to ah, at least two or three other two wineries that have used the grapes and gold medal winners. So pretty

pretty proud of that. But you are, And also when I just add this which Thomas went over to New Zealand on sabbatical and studied their great technique, your great growing techniques, and has brought those back and is sort of spreading the word and instruction in the

wine community. He had some seminars last summer that he had a 400 local viticulture people in with the people from New Zealand. We pick up any ideas to help depict, pick up a lot of ideas you need employing him now on the new in the jury's

even, you know? Yeah. And may bring in the JC video you have got there and visit. It's really Oh, yeah, quite a place. Where is that located? A past Forestville by force. Right, Jill? Fred MacMurray ran? Oh, yeah, sure, that's right. Remember that We've had a

Petaluma campus of Central Junior College for several years, but quite a lot of things have happened recently. There tell us about Well, we've been planning a Petaluma center for a long time now, and we have some preliminary sketches of where the buildings will be. We we

bought a 40 acre piece of property on the West Side there, quite frankly, in Petaluma, and we'll develop that into a full off campus center for about probably 10,000 students. And we're fund where we got funded this year by 4.5 $1,000,000 to start site work and

everything, so we'll be on it in about 1992 or 30 that's great. And that will then that will eventually take care of about 10,000 students or take. It'll take care of that. Will they be there before the buildings were built? Well, no, no. The buildings will

be built first. Being criminal be, um we've got about two or three minutes. I think left here to is right. One of things I heard recently it was Roy Michaelson is actually thinking of hanging it up. That was reported recently. What? What's the story? Yeah, that's

true. I was actually going to retire at the end of this year and, uh, the board that been asked to go another year. So I'm going another year and I'll be all retire in August of 1990. That'll make 19 years, two months at C, six hours

on B 24 years as a community college president. And that's about enough. That's been it's been interesting, and I don't want to say that without saying that I've enjoyed the time. It's been a marvelous institution in a marvelous community, certainly hasn't in a it's a great

school. And, Roy, I don't just say what a lot of other people would say if they were sitting here. Much of the credit in this last turning this last 18 years is due to the to the gentleman sitting officer. You and I think the community knows

that. I appreciate you for that. I think they will be definitely showing you that when the time comes. But I'm concerned here. You're leaving. That means we're gonna have 1/5 president. That's right. It'll still do. You still call it before, but I thank you for those

words, but the credit goes to everybody that's working with Santa Rosa Junior College. The board down to everybody to classified and faculty. We have just outstanding people there that's made to college. And you say Brooke is working. Brooke dowsers working on the history of calling Yes,

Fried Bailey. The first president wrote the Bailey years. And, uh, Brooke is writing the Newman years in the Michaelson years. And then after that somebody else. The final thing, which we got about a minute to us. What final thing would you like to stay? Is maybe

Maybe you're back visit with us before you retire. But where would you want to say is a result of my talk today? Well, we have a lot to do. We're doing a lot of things now, and I must mention parking. We're looking at the armory, and

I talked to Colonel Vander Veen from the armory. People just for I came here and we have some long range prospects there. We're also looking at a site north of Santa Rosa for because we're growing so much that we'll need the Petaluma off campus center. We'll

need a big off campus center to our north, and we'll be out County. So we're planning ahead. It head for eventualities that come along, even parking. I never get mentioned, Parking asked. I know that Really, really. That's really a problem donor. Ladies and gentlemen, we've been

talking to Dr Roy Michaelson, who is the third or fourth if we can't Brooks year there. President of the Central Junior College, a fine institution. He's done a great job, carried on a fine tradition established by Flight Bailey and Ran Newman. And Dr Michaelson has probably

been equally or even more effective than a marvelous job. And I'm sure you'll be hearing parting about that when he does retire in 1990. Thank you very much for coming over, Ryan. Thank you. This you real pleasure. Ladies and gentlemen, My name is Richman Clergy, and

the program is cinema Canon. The agent will be back with you next week. Will bring another member of county government, family or related agency such as the president of our local junior college. Until then. Good luck. Good health. Good.