Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	75.90
Liaison	Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date	Dec. 6, 2021

STARS v2.2

Carnegie Mellon University
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.75 / 3.00	Melissa Baker Assistant Director IR Institutional Research and Analysis

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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 Leadership Council, Undergraduate Student Senate, and Graduate Student Assembly
https://www.cmu.edu/stugov/

Faculty Senate
https://www.cmu.edu/faculty-senate/

Staff Council
https://www.cmu.edu/staff-council/

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:

18.99

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

https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/board

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 University's Campus Design & Facility Development engages the community on a regular basis for any construction or major renovation project. External stakeholders include adjacent and nearby cultural, educational, and medical institutions; business organizations in the four-block nearby Craig Street district; and five local Registered Community Organizations that represent nearly 34,000 residents as well as less formal neighbor groups. Our 2022 Institutional Master Plan process will hold close to 50 meetings for these external stakeholders.

Also, prominent members of the surrounding community, including the Mayor of Pittsburgh, are ex officio members of the Board of Trustees.

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:

https://www.cmu.edu/leadership/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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