Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	65.37
Liaison	Alan Brew
Submission Date	Feb. 26, 2021

STARS v2.2

Northland College
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.38 / 3.00	Alan Brew Dean Academic Affairs

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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:

Northland College's shared governance bodies include the Northland College Student Association, Academic Council, the Faculty Council, the Staff Council, and the Administrative Council. Representatives from the Student Association serve with faculty on Academic Council, the curriculum committee that approves courses, academic curricula, and the academic calendar. Two representatives from the Student Association also serve as voting members of the College's Board of Trustees, which has ultimate responsibility for management of the College. Standing committees of the Faculty Council make recommendations for promotion and tenure, and the Faculty Council as a whole recommends students who are candidates for degrees. The elected President of the Faculty Council and the elected President of the Staff Council represent the faculty and staff respectively on the College's Administrative Council, which is responsible for institutional strategic planning and budgeting.

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:

35.71

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

https://www.northland.edu/about/#leadership-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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