Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.75
Liaison Victor Udo
Submission Date Nov. 18, 2022

STARS v2.2

Bucknell University
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.25 / 3.00 Victor E Udo
Director, Campus Sustainability
Office of Campus 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:
Students: Bucknell Student Government is a body of elected undergraduate students charged with representing the general student body in University affairs. BSG is composed of 64 full-time students whom represent all class years, working rigorously to ensure each student with an incomparable undergraduate experience.

Academic Staff: Bucknell's faculty is actively involved in formulating policies and establishing procedures through its participation on 14 standing committees and through monthly meetings for the whole faculty that are open to the Bucknell community. The Faculty Council is recognized as a quasi-executive committee for the faculty that is authorized to assist in communications between meetings with the administration, to help to establish long-term agenda items for the faculty to consider and to act as a facilitative committee when matters fall between or span committee charters.

Non-Academic: The university have a Staff Forum that meets every month during the semester. Leadership of the Forum is elected by staff. Senior administrators including the President and the Provost participate at the monthly meetings.

Part 2. Campus stakeholder representation in governance

Total number of individuals on the institution’s highest governing body:
39

Number of students representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
3

Number of academic staff representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
4

Number of non-academic staff representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
3

Part 3. Gender equity in governance

Number of women serving as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
17

Percentage of official members of the highest governing body that are women:
43.59

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

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?:
No

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

Number of people from underrepresented groups serving as official members of the institution’s highest governing body.:
8

Website URL where information about the institution’s governance structure is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Current Trustees:

Carolyn Ainslie '80
Dawn Becker '85
Keren Bergman '88
John Bravman, President Trustee
J. Frank Brown '78
Tom Buchholz '84
Bob Chrencik '73
Laureen Costa '90, Assistant Secretary
Frank Davis '82, P'13
Lisa Cadette Detwiler P'18
Michael Dominguez '91
Annie Drapeau '88, Vice Chair
Brenda Earl '81
Jane Elfers '83, P'19
Mako Fujimura '83, P'13
Martin Gilliard '99
Robert Gilligan '81
Gene Gorab '85, P'12, P'16
Sunil Gulati '81
Donald Isken '75, P'12, P'20
Alexandra Jung '92
Steve Kohn '81, Vice Chair
Bridget LaCroix Lecky '09
Jordy Leiser '06
Carolyn Miles '83
Sam Nana-Sinkam, Jr. '10
Chris O’Brien '80, P'18, P'20, Chair
Scott Perricelli '94, P'25
John Reynolds '92
Laurie Schmidt '99
Frank Schoeneman '76, P'06
Kirsten Schubauer Heinemann '81, P'12, P'15
Erika Stanat '90
Chris Sullivan '92
Garry Thaniel '04, Secretary
Kathryn Vizas '79
Dave West '85
Audra Wilson '94
Robin Zafirovski '79, P'09

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