Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	64.13
Liaison	Michael Kensler
Submission Date	Feb. 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Auburn University
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	0.75 / 3.00	Michael Kensler Director Sustainability Operations Office of Sustainability

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Part 1. Shared governance bodies

Does the institution have formal participatory or shared governance bodies through which the following stakeholders can regularly participate in the governance of the institution?:

	Yes or No
Students	Yes
Academic staff	Yes
Non-academic staff	Yes

A brief description of the institution’s formal participatory or shared governance bodies:

Student Government Association represents student interests.
University Senate represents faculty interests.
Staff Council represents hourly staff interests.
Administrative & Professional Assembly represents interests of exempt employees.

Part 2. Campus stakeholder representation in governance

Total number of individuals on the institution’s highest governing body:

Number of students representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:

Number of academic staff representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:

Number of non-academic staff representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:

Part 3. Gender equity in governance

Number of women serving as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:

Percentage of official members of the highest governing body that are women:

18.75

Website URL where information about the institution’s highest governing body may be found:

https://www.auburn.edu/administration/trustees/

Part 4. Community engagement bodies

Does the institution host or support one or more formal bodies through which external stakeholders have a regular voice in institutional decisions that affect them?:

A brief description of the campus-community council or equivalent body that gives external stakeholders a regular voice in institutional decisions that affect them:

While Auburn University has not created a formal body that meets the criteria for this credit Auburn staff participate is several bodies that give some external stakeholders a regular voice in decisions that affect them: These include the Auburn and Opelika Chambers of Commerce;, an annual Auburn Chamber forum featuring AU leadership; the board of directors of the Alabama Germany Partnership, Japan American Society of Alabama, United Way of Lee County and Main Street Alabama. Quarterly partnership meetings with the City of Auburn and AU to coordinate infrastructure and capital improvement projects; quarterly economic partnership meetings with the City of Auburn ED team and Auburn Research and Technology Foundation to discuss economic development issues in our community. In addition Auburn staff serves the City of Auburn 2040 Steering Committee to collaborate on the plan as it relates to Auburn University.

Optional Fields

Number of people from underrepresented groups serving as official members of the institution’s highest governing body.:

Website URL where information about the institution’s governance structure is available:

http://www.auburn.edu/administration

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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