Attending: John M. Crisp, Mike Gadell, Homer Garza, Noe Guerra, Dolores Huerta, Mattie Marcum, William Mareth, Vickie Natale, Jim Pierce (Chair)

Not Attending: Mary Peña, Lisa Welch.

Institutional Purpose Subcommittee Report: The Institutional Purpose Subcommittee (Mike Gadell, Homer Garza, Jim Pierce) submitted for discussion a report on their review of the Institutional Purpose draft. The report will be completed and submitted to the Institutional Purpose principal committee within three working days.

Other Discussion: Chair Jim Pierce reported that the Educational Program subcommittee continues to meet with the Educational Program principal committee chair on Friday afternoon and has reviewed the first thirteen "must" statements. Liaison Noe Guerra reported that the Educational Support Services committee has made little progress and that consideration should be given to adding more personnel. John M. Crisp reported that because of illness the Organization and Administration subcommittee had not been able to meet with the principal committee chair, but that the subcommittee had reviewed the draft individually and would report on February 25, as scheduled. Vickie Natale mentioned a communication from SACS liaison John Dwyer, in response to a question raised by Mary Ann Williams (chair of the Educational Program committee) regarding non-traditional, abbreviated or concentrated courses. Mike Gadell pointed out that the Coordinating Board would not allow a three-hour course to be offered in less that three weeks and Natale pointed out that DMC is further limited by funding in the extent to which courses can be abbreviated. In short, it appears that DMC does not offer courses that fall into the category of abbreviated or concentrated. Pierce said that he would discuss the matter with Williams.

Next Meeting: The next meeting of the Steering Committee will be held in VB-170 on Thursday, February 25, 1999 at 3:00 p.m.

Minutes prepared by John M. Crisp.