Board of Alumni

Michael Holtzclaw

Mike earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs with a minor in Soviet & East European Studies from Lewis & Clark in 1988. While at the College he participated in four study abroad programs (Costa Rica, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and Indonesia. He was also a four-year varsity letterman in football, layout editor for the yearbook, Dorm Manager in Copeland Hall and Resident Assistant in Hartzfeld Hall.

After graduation, Mike worked for two years as an Assistant Dean of Admissions for L&C before getting the travel bug again. He left the Admission's Department to move to Taipei, Taiwan to become an ESL teacher. After working there for a year, he began graduate school in the Geography Department at The Ohio State University. He finished his studies in 1997 after completing an M.A. and a Ph.D.

Mike is currently the Chair of the Social Science Department, and Associate Professor of Geography, at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. He has led two study abroad programs for the College (Nepal and Florence, Italy) as well as spent a full year in Italy with his family while on sabbatical. Mike is married to Sarah "Lowell" Holtzclaw '88, and they have three young children, Craig, Alice, and Jill.