Presidential Summit

Information Items:
A. Web-site
B. Consortium of Southern California Hispanic Serving Institutions

Old Business:
A. The Transfer Process in a Period of Fiscal Crises: Continuation of discussion from last meeting at Rio Hondo College.

It was agreed that campus participants would provide information regarding the articulation of remedial courses and that we discuss the related issue of high school preparation and placement testing. Please bring the report distributed for the Rio Hondo meeting and any other appropriate materials for this discussion.
B. CALPass:
Donald Averill from the San Bernardino Community College District agreed to bring materials relative to the San Bernardino experience along with sample data summaries

C. Vision Statement:
The current up-dated version of vision statement is attached for our discussion.

New Business:
A. Progress report on discussion for grant collaboration.
The small group that was convened last year to work on a collaborative grant opportunity has met several times during the 2003-2004 academic year. It included representation from UC Riverside, several community colleges and several CSU campuses. We have come to the conclusion that trying to find a grant opportunity that would serve all the needs of the entire Presidential Summit membership was not possible. We have since concluded that the best way for us to operate and to ensure that we find grant opportunities that will serve our collective needs is to form sub-groups that can serve as focal points of collaboration for grant application. The group identified the following clusters because there was clear evidence of close collaboration between segments within the region, such as the Santa Ana collaborative, or evidence of collaboration on transfer of students or program articulation. This group suggests that such collaborative efforts be endorsed by the Presidential Summit as a group and that other such efforts be encouraged.

So far we have identified the following clusters and suggest that others are possible and may in fact be in existence:

Inland Empire Collaborative: UC Riverside, Riverside Community College (now composed of three community colleges), CSU San Bernardino and San Bernardino Community College District. This group is considering working on a grant that will focus on the development of a technically-skilled workforce for the area building on the strengths of vocational training programs existent in local community colleges.

Santa Ana Collaborative: UC Irvine, CSU Fullerton, Santa Ana and Fullerton Community Colleges.

Pomona Valley Collaborative: Cal Poly, Citrus Community College, Mt San Antonio Community College and Chaffey Community College.
Los Angeles-Pasadena Collaborative: CSU Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Community College, Pasadena Community College.

South Bay Collaborative: CSU Dominguez Hills, Compton Community College, El Camino Community College and Cerritos Community College