Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	68.91
Liaison	Susan Powers
Submission Date	April 10, 2024

STARS v2.2

Clarkson University
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.12 / 3.00	Susan Powers Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment ISE

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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:

The student, faculty and staff councils all have elected representation. They report to and interact directly with the President as well as other VPs as appropriate. There is also staff union representation (facilities staff only), and multiple committees with formal student, faculty, and staff representation depending on the need and/or context.

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:

29.63

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

https://www.clarkson.edu/about/university-leadership

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:

https://bookstack.clarkson.edu/books/operations-manual

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Data from FY22

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