Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	76.81
Liaison	Aaron Durnbaugh
Submission Date	March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Loyola University Chicago
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.88 / 3.00	Aaron Durnbaugh Director of Sustainability Office of Sustainability

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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 highest level of governance is the University's Board of Trustees which includes representation of the university.

Shared governance is facilitated through the University Senate including representatives from Student Government, Staff Council, and Faculty Council, as well as geographic representation given our multiple campuses:
https://www.luc.edu/universitysenate/index.shtml

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:

29.41

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

https://www.luc.edu/president/governance/boardoftrustees/

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:

Lake Shore Community Partners - https://www.luc.edu/lscp/
Alumni councils by school.
Advisory Committees by school.
Center for Experiential Learning - https://www.luc.edu/experiential/forcommunitypartners/
Community-engagement processes by campus. - https://www.luc.edu/communityrelations/communitypartners/

Also these open meetings:
Student Government
Staff Council
Faculty Council

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:

http://www.luc.edu/universitysenate/index.shtml

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

There are two student representatives on the Board of Trustees, but they are not members with voting roles.
There are academic and non-academic staff as representatives on BoT Committees but again, these are non-voting roles.
The University President is an ex-officio member of the BoT.

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