Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	49.22
Liaison	Paul Scanlon
Submission Date	March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Slippery Rock University
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.12 / 3.00	Paul Scanlon Special Assistant to the President President's Office/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:

SRU has unions for both faculty and staff who participate in shared governance through their collective bargaining units.

A student representative of the Student Government Association (SGA) also sits on SRU's Council of Trustees.

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:

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

https://www.sru.edu/about/administration/council-of-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?:

Yes

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

The President's Commission on Sustainability always includes one or more community members, and SRU's "Butler Succeed" office includes representatives of nine community organizations. See https://www.sru.edu/news/052121a for the list of members of the Advisory Board.

The link below provides additional information on the Office of Community Engaged Learning:
https://www.sru.edu/offices/community-engaged-learning/community-partnership-opportunities

Optional Fields

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

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

http://www.sru.edu/about/administration/council-of-trustees

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Slippery Rock University is committed to shared-governance. Faculty, staff and students are involved on all major internal institutional committees and commissions including; Strategic Planning; Budgeting; and the President's Commissions for: Disability; Women; Sustainability; Wellness; GISO and Race and Ethnicity. Leadership for students, faculty, staff and management have access to and meet regularly with the president.

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