Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	60.54
Liaison	Jane Stewart
Submission Date	March 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

Washington and Lee University
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.12 / 3.00	Jessica Willet Vice President for Communications and Strategic Initiatives, Secretary of the University Office of the president

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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	No

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

Student self-governance is a core value at W&Land manifests in two primary bodies: the Executive Committee and the Student Judicial Council.

Faculty Committees include the Advisory Committee, the Faculty Executive Committee and the Courses and Degrees Committee, among others.

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:

31.03

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

https://www.wlu.edu/the-w-l-story/leadership/board-of-trustees/members/

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:

N/A

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:

https://www.wlu.edu/the-w-l-story/leadership/board-of-trustees/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Note: the seven faculty representatives to the Board of Trustees are not themselves board members and do not votes. Please advise if representatives must be have voting power to be included as campus stakeholder representatives.

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