Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	52.64
Liaison	Patrice Langevin
Submission Date	March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Pitzer College
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.88 / 3.00	Milan Stijepovic Asst Director of Sustainability Facilities

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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:

there are several governing bodies and sub committees that make up the whole, including student senate, Academic planning committee, presidents cabinet, board of trustees, college council divided up by sub divisions could be found here https://www.pitzer.edu/about/administration/college-governance/, as well as staff council found here https://www.pitzer.edu/scr/

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.pitzer.edu/board-of-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?:

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:

Community Engagement Center (CEC) Steering Committee

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://pitweb.pitzer.edu/college-governance/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Pitzer’s governmental structure makes it virtually unique among American colleges. Students along with faculty and staff are represented on all the standing committees of the College including those which deal with the most vital and sensitive issues of the College community.

In most instances, policy decisions of the standing committees are made in the form of recommendations to College Council, which is the primary legislative body of the school, made up of the faculty, staff representatives and student representatives.

The College Council meeting shall make recommendations to the President. Recommendations from the College Council meeting shall be communicated by the Dean of Faculty to the President in writing. The President shall notify the Executive Committee of the Faculty and the Dean of Faculty of his/her approval or disapproval. In the latter case, the President shall enumerate the reasons for his/her action. Agenda items that entail a major change in policy shall be discussed one meeting prior to a vote.

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