Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	65.17
Liaison	Lisa Mitten
Submission Date	March 2, 2023

STARS v2.2

State University of New York at New Paltz
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.75 / 3.00	Lisa Mitten Campus Sustainability Coordinator Office of Campus 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:

Students are represented through the Student Association. Student representatives and officers are elected by fellow students. Academic and non-academic professional staff participate on faculty governance bodies. Non-academic staff including clerical and custodial workers and lower and middle-level admin positions participate in collective bargaining through the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) union.

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:

44.44

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

https://www.newpaltz.edu/president/college-council/#members

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:

The College maintains a town-gown committee including the Village of New Paltz Mayor, the Town of New Paltz Supervisor, the New Paltz School District Superintendent, first responders, and the Police Chief. Local community members can raise issues regarding the college to such members for their opinions to be passed on the town-gown committee through elected officials.

SUNY New Paltz holds regular meetings of the College Council, which are open to the public and attended by the highest-ranking officials of the University. One of the powers and duties of the College Council is to "foster the development of advisory citizens’ committees." External stakeholders may attend College Council meetings for their voices to be heard. https://www.newpaltz.edu/president/college-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:

https://www.newpaltz.edu/president/organizational-chart/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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