R: No. What generally does happen with the community college board is that the
 president goes to the board and says, "Here is our current faculty salary schedule.
 Based on the amount of money we have received from the legislature, based on
 inflation, based on this, that, and the other thing, I recommend that we increase the
 salary schedule by this much. In addition to that, you allow us to give a longevity
 stipend and a merit stipend, but the total raise will not exceed 6 percent or 4,
 percent," or whatever.

P: What about tenure? Do faculty community college professors have tenure?

R: Yes. We have the tenure system the same as the university.

P: And so the protection is there.

R: Yes, it is.

P: Let us go back now to your move from the University of Florida to Santa Fe. You
 said that was an interesting transition there.

R: When I came back to the University at the end of 1964, the community college for
 Gainesville had just been authorized and they were getting ready to name the
 citizens' advisory committee up here. Well, when I got back everybody knew that
 I had been chairman of the advisory committee in Fort Myers, so Tiny Talbot
 [Alachua County school superintendent] asked me to serve on the committee. This
 was a joint committee, because it was a two county district.

P: Bradford County and Alachua [County]?

R: That is right. I think we had maybe an eight or nine member group of which
 perhaps five or six were from Alachua county and three or four from Bradford.

P: Why was it a two-county operation?

R: Sam, I guess that was part of the master plan. With the twenty-eight districts,
 supposedly nobody would be more than fifty miles driving distance away. That was
 a general rule of thumb that I think was in the master plan.

P: So Starke was about that distance, a little bit less. I wonder, now, Miami-Dade
 never shared responsibility with another county.

R: No, not as big as they are. I guess the expectation was the really big districts would
 have more than one campus, and, of course, that is what has happened.

P: And they, perhaps, never envisioned that Santa Fe would grow.

R: Not as much as it has.

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