Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.53
Liaison Tanja Srebotnjak
Submission Date March 1, 2019
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.1

Harvey Mudd College
PA-3: Participatory Governance

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.50 / 3.00 Tanja Srebotnjak
Hixon Associate Professor of Sustainable Environmental Design
Engineering
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Part 1

Do the institution’s students have a representative body through which they can participate in governance (e.g. a student council)? :
Yes

Do the institution’s students have an elected representative on the institution’s highest governing body?:
No

If yes to either of the above, provide:

A brief description of the bodies and mechanisms through which students are engaged in governance, including information to support each affirmative response above:
Students are engaged in governance through The Associated Students of Harvey Mudd College (ASHMC). The ASHMC seeks to empower the student body by increasing engagement, stimulating leadership, celebrating diversity, advocating for equality and participating in many facets of college governance. Though ASHMC is completely independent, it is affiliated with the institution of Harvey Mudd College. ASHMC appoints and maintains representatives to several Harvey Mudd College committees, including the Faculty Executive Committee, the Teaching and Learning Committee, the Computing Committee, and the Board of Trustees. Both the ASHMC president and Student Senate Chair attend the board meetings but they do not vote and are not official members. They are guests, the same way as the Chair of the Faculty. ASHMC appoints non-voting student representatives to the following committees of the Board of Trustees: Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Physical Plant and Campus Planning, and Advancement.

Do the institution’s staff members have a representative body through which they can participate in governance (e.g. a staff council)?:
No

Do the institution’s non-supervisory staff members have an elected representative on the institution’s highest governing body?:
No

If yes to either of the above, provide:

A brief description of the bodies and mechanisms through which staff are engaged in governance, including information to support each affirmative response above:
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Do the institution’s teaching and research faculty have a representative body through which they can participate in governance (e.g. a faculty senate)?:
Yes

Do the institution’s teaching and research faculty have an elected representative on the institution’s highest governing body? :
No

If yes to either of the above, provide:

A brief description of the bodies and mechanisms through which teaching and research faculty are engaged in governance, including information to support each affirmative response above:
The teaching and research faculty have representatives on the Faculty Executive Committee, as well as the Department Chairs Committee. These are not elected representatives, but are appointed. In addition, the Dean of Faculty represents all faculty in the President's Cabinet, but that selection is made by a committee every three years.

Part 2

Does the institution have written policies and procedures to identify and engage external stakeholders (i.e. local residents) in land use planning, capital investment projects, and other institutional decisions that affect the community?:
No

A copy of the written policies and procedures:
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The policies and procedures:
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Does the institution have formal participatory or shared governance bodies through which community members representing the interests of the following stakeholder groups can regularly participate in institutional governance?:
Yes or No
Local government and/or educational organizations No
Private sector organizations No
Civil society (e.g. NGOs, NPOs) No

If yes to one or more of the above, provide:

A brief description of the bodies and mechanisms through which external stakeholders are engaged in institutional governance (including information about each stakeholder group selected above):
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Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives 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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