We are fully underway in our Spring Semester activities, and have much to look forward to in the coming weeks. Thanks to everyone for working so diligently to prepare the campus to welcome more than 17,000 students this semester. Please remind your students that there are opportunities to enroll in the next set of short classes, beginning March 28.

I encourage everyone to be aware of the opportunity for each department to nominate candidates for the Teaching Excellence Awards (full-time and adjunct) which will be announced at the annual College Recognition Ceremony May 19. The College Recognition Committee, responding to the recommendation that the timeline for the process be adjusted, requests that the nominations be forwarded to Division Deans by March 4. Another efficiency is the alignment of this award with the Academic Senate’s nomination process for Distinguished Faculty, which will take place later this semester.

Congratulations are in order for the entire Grossmont College community. We have just received word that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, has accepted our Midterm Report and commends us for the thoroughness of actions taken in response to both the recommendations from the visiting team and the self-identified issues from the self-study. The evaluation team report is available in the Grossmont College Library and will be placed on the website. Please see the related story regarding the Student Learning Outcomes workshop, an integral component of our preparation for the next comprehensive evaluation which will take place in Fall 2007. A list of Steering Committie co-chairs appears on this page.

Thanks for all you all do to keep our focus on student success!

Respectfully,

Ted Martinez, Jr.