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

Not Attending: Noe Guerra.

Subcommittee Reports:

• Educational Program: Steering Committee Chair Jim Pierce reported that the Educational Program subcommittee met with Mary Ann Williams, chair of the principal committee on Educational Program, on May 6 and had reviewed all of the "must" and "should" statements, as well as the introduction. He said that she should have her report completed in about two weeks, at which time it will be put online; the Steering Committee will have to determine how it will deal with the report at that point.
• Educational Support Services: Pierce reported that he and John M. Crisp had met with Juan Flores, Noe Guerra and Antonio David on May 10 and that they had worked through the entire draft. They will meet again on May 20, when he hopes the pre-forum draft will be completed. The report will be put online and the subcommittee report will be presented to the Steering Committee before the June 24 open forum.

Final Committee Reports: The post-forum drafts of both the Institutional Advancement and Financial Resources committees were due on May 8; Pierce reported that he had spoken to the chairs of both committees, who said that they would need an additional week and a half.

Open Forums: Liaison Mattie Marcum said that members of the Institutional Effectiveness committee had been working on their drafts and that they would be ready for their June 10 open forums. Mike Gadell said that John Mastenbrook, chair of the Computer Resources and Services committee, plans to have a finished draft by May 14. Pierce reported that the subcommittee for the Faculty draft had met several times with Faculty principal committee chair, Manuel Flores. They will be meeting again on May 12; he hopes that the subcommittee will have a report ready for the Steering Committee to review at its meeting on May 24. John M. Crisp passed out copies of the Faculty report draft to the Steering Committee members who had not already received them. During a discussion of the open forums, the Steering Committee agreed that the overviews presented by the principal committee chairs should be brief, concise, and informative, leaving ample time for audience input.

Adjunct Pay for Summer 1999: Pierce reported that Steering Committee members will be paid at the adjunct rate for one course for their summer's work. He collected summer session preferences from each committee member.

Lists of Documents and Files Available for Peer Evaluation Teams: Pierce collected from the Steering Committee the lists of documents used by the principal committees to which they had served as liaison.

Next Meeting: The Steering Committee will meet on May 24 at 9:00 a.m. in VB-170 to discuss the draft of the Faculty principal committee. The Faculty Committee may be able to complete a new version of the draft before then.

Other Discussion: Dolores Huerta pointed out that the principal committees that will be presenting their drafts in open forums on June 24 (Educational Support Services and Educational Program), should they take an entire month to produce their post-forum drafts, will be crowding the August 1 deadline. Pierce and Crisp pointed out that both of these drafts have had to run on a different track and that considerable rewriting will need to take place on the drafts well before July 24. Pierce asked the principal committee liaisons to remind the principal committee chairs to ensure that they have produced minutes for all of their meetings and that the minutes should be posted on the web. Crisp pointed out that the format for minutes is linked from the self-study webpages and that, if necessary, he would assist committees in posting them on the web. Vickie Natale asked about developing the list of documents that will need to be gathered for the visiting committee; Pierce said that he and Crisp will produce a common list from the lists that the Steering Committee members had submitted.

Minutes prepared by John M. Crisp.