FUENTES: nobody sets our agenda but us!

t last night's board meeting, the board was scheduled to discuss the Accediting agency's recommendations. As was made clear during the special meeting on the 13th, our two colleges will have to move quickly if they are to produce adequate responses to the agency's demands on time.

Chancellor Mathur seemed to take that advice to heart, and so he was prepared to facilitate the board's discussion of the recommendation last night. So the discussion was agendized:

25. SC/IVC ACCREDITATION TEAM RECOMMENDATIONS
Item for discussion as approved by the board 1/31/06.

But Trustee Tom Fuentes had other ideas. Take a listen.

THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION--AND PORNOGRAPHY:


ater in the evening (item 49), the board's recent action of ending our colleges' memberships in the American Library Association was discussed. Padberg and Jay wanted the matter reconsidered. Clearly, they were prepared to vote in support of institutional membership in the ALA.

Here we find Trustee Fuentes arguing that the discussion of reconsideration of this matter should be put off until the next board meeting. (It seemed clear that he and Wagner needed to prepare.) Fuentes frets about the specter of "pornography" in our libraries. Padberg briefly responds.