Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	61.34
Liaison	Jennifer Kleindienst
Submission Date	Dec. 20, 2019

STARS v2.2

Wesleyan University
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.25 / 3.00	Heather Brooke Executive Assistant to the President President's Office

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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:

Six student representatives and six faculty representatives actively participate in the work of the Board of Trustees as voting members of all standing committees, except for the Audit, Executive, Governance, and Investment committees. Those student and faculty representatives also attend all Board meetings (other than Executive Sessions), together with the President’s Cabinet, the president and vice president of the Wesleyan Student Assembly, and other select guests.

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:

41.18

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

https://www.wesleyan.edu/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:

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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:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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