Gary asked for a Region V update. I cover the north end. It was good to see people from my area who I don't get to see very often attending the conference in Long Beach. I'm going to work hard to get the two schools who were not represented there next time. I have been talking to ESL instructors at two of the colleges, and they're open to being more involved with ECCTYC. I presented with one of them at an ECCTYC conference in Costa Mesa some years ago. I can't get one college in my part of the region to respond at all, which is very frustrating. I even tried tapping an old classmate who teaches there to no avail. On my campus, West Hills College Lemoore, we're wading through the accreditation process to become separate from West Hills College Coalinga. It's a long time coming. We're also revamping our textbook process, which is also a long time coming!

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