Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	52.28
Liaison	Jamie Jacquart
Submission Date	March 5, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.13 / 3.00	Jamie Jacquart Assistant Director 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:

UMass Dartmouth has a long history of providing shared governance. This includes several deliberative bodies like the Student Senate, Graduate Student Senate, and the Faculty Senate. It also includes 5 unions, which are well represented structurally in the operations of the campus.

The UMass Board of Trustees has elected student representation from each UMass campus: https://www.umassp.edu/bot/members

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:

22.73

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

https://www.umassp.edu/bot/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 University has a standing committee with the Town of Dartmouth. This Town-Gown committee meets on a regular basis and has several members of the Board of Selectmen (highest authority), the Town Administrator (daily point person) and other members of town administration as needed by topic.

Optional Fields

Number of people from underrepresented groups serving as official members of the institution’s highest governing body.:

Website URL where information about the institution’s governance structure is available:

https://www.umassd.edu/chancellor/university-leadership/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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