Attending: John M. Crisp, Homer Garza, Noe Guerra, Dolores Huerta, Mattie Marcum, William Mareth, Mary Peña, Jim Pierce (Chair), Lisa Welch.

Not Attending: Mike Gadell, Vickie Natale.

Principal Committee Post-Forum Drafts: Chair Jim Pierce reported that half of the Educational Program draft had been turned in and that the other half and the introduction would be turned in within a couple of days. The Educational Support Services post-forum draft has not been submitted.

Release Time: Pierce announced the I.S.D. Council's decision to award faculty on the Steering Committee a course of release time in fall of 1999, but not in spring of 2000.

ISD Council Subcommittee: Pierce announced that a subcommittee of the ISD Council had been developed to produce the Addendum, the institution's response to the Self-Study Report. The subcommittee is made up of Deans Lopez, Sloan, and Duarte, Chris Tetzlaff-Belhasen, Claudia Jackson, Pierce and Crisp, and a representative from the office of the Vice President for Business and Finance. V.P.I.S.D. Armenta will chair the subcommittee. The subcommittee will meet on July 29. The print deadline for the Addendum is December 17; the visiting team needs to have the Addendum a month before the visit.

August 1 Draft: Pierce said that he and Crisp would be working through the post-forum drafts and then asking the Steering Committee to review the revised versions. He said that the first couple should be up early during the week of July 19. He asked the Steering Committee to review the drafts, photocopy relevant pages, highlight changes and send the copies to him. Pierce said that the Steering Committee will need to review and agree upon the final set of recommendations and suggestions. He asked the Committee members to go back to their document lists and begin to locate physical copies of the documents.

Printing: Crisp reported that three printers had been contacted and that he and Pierce had visited one printer during the previous week. The printer will be submitting a quote via fax. He said that arrangements for printing are on schedule; the deadline for submitting the final draft is October 1; the Report will be printed by October 31.

Faculty Roster: Pierce said that the Steering Committee needs to review the approximately ninety files of the faculty members, both full-time and part-time, with which the Faculty Committee found problems. He said that the Committee will eventually need to check all of the files. He said that the Committee has to prepare for the Report a roster that reflects the faculty teaching in spring of 2000, at the time of the SACS visit. He said that visiting team members will probably spend two days in Natale's office reviewing the files. The Steering Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 20, at 2:00 p.m. in the records room of Natale's office.

Next Meetings: The Steering Committee will meet on Tuesday, July 20, at 2:00 p.m. in the records room of Vickie Natale's office.
The Steering Committee will meet also on Thursday, July 29, at 1:30 p.m. in VB-170.

Minutes prepared by John M. Crisp.