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

Not Attending: William Mareth, Mary Peña.

Review of Educational Support Services Draft:

Chair Jim Pierce reviewed some of the highpoints of the Educational Support Services subcommittee's report on the draft. The Steering Committee then discussed the draft, making the following suggestions, among a number of proofreading changes:

1. On page 9 of the draft, change the finding from "Recommendation" to "Compliance with Suggestion," and move the recommendation to the area of the draft concerned with distance learning.
2. On the "must" statement in the middle of page 9, make sure that the response covers all of the "considerations" mentioned in previous sentence in the Criteria.
3. On page 17, consider that the emphasis of the "must" statement is on "different formats," rather than on the actual information.
4. On page 23, delete the last two sentences in the paragraph at the top of the page, and change the finding to "Noncompliance" and a suggestion, letting the administration respond to the issue in the Addendum.
5. On page 30, change the finding to "Compliance with Suggestion."
6. On page 32, change the finding to "Compliance with Suggestion."
7. On pages 49 and 50, remove the actual names from the list.
8. On page 51, change the finding to "Compliance with Suggestions," including the issue of staff coverage on West Campus and the failure to reach ACRL standards for staffing.
9. On page 52, since the emphasis of the "must" statement is on the number, remove the names and educational backgrounds from the list.
10. On page 58, change the finding to "Compliance with Suggestion."
11. On page 60, review with the principal committee the finding, "Conditionally in Compliance."

Pierce reminded the committee that it still needs to produce a response to Section 5.2 of the Criteria and a summary. Additionally, he reviewed with Antonio David, chair of the Educational Support Services principal committee, the nature of the rehearsal and open forum, scheduled for June 23 and 24, respectively.

Next Meeting: The Steering Committee will meet on Wednesday, June 16, in VB-170, for rehearsals of the Faculty and Information Technology Resources and Systems open forums.

Minutes prepared by John M. Crisp.