Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 59.67
Liaison Luc Surprenant
Submission Date Dec. 23, 2022

STARS v2.2

Université de Montréal
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.50 / 3.00 Alexandre Chabot
Secretary-General
General Secretariat
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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:
Composed of about 100 members of the community, the University Assembly sets out the general principles that govern the direction and development of the University and makes recommendations to the Council to this end. It also makes regulations concerning the status of professors and monitors their application.

About ten committees report to it. The University Assembly meets about ten times a year. Its meeting records are available to the public.

The University's Statutes define in more detail its powers and rules of composition, while its internal regulations define its day-to-day operations.

The composition of the University Assembly is described in the University Vademecum.

https://secretariatgeneral.umontreal.ca/documents-officiels/vade-mecum/assemblee-universitaire/statut-mandat-composition/

Composition of the University Assembly
-President (Rector)
-President of the deliberations

Ex-officio members
-The Rector
-the Vice Rectors
-the Deans
-Acting Director of the School of Optometry
-the directors of the affiliated schools
-the Executive Director of the Library Branch
-Career professors or professors under grant elected by the assembly of each faculty
-Lecturers elected by and from among the lecturers of the faculty
-two professors from affiliated schools elected by the assembly of these schools
-eight members appointed by a student representative council
-three independent members appointed by the Council after consultation with the council representing the University's graduates
-four members appointed by a council representing the staff
-four members elected from among the officers and professional staff
-observers
-secretary
-committee chairperson

Part 2. Campus stakeholder representation in governance

Total number of individuals on the institution’s highest governing body:
24

Number of students representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
0

Number of academic staff representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
0

Number of non-academic staff representing their peers as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
0

Part 3. Gender equity in governance

Number of women serving as official members of the institution’s highest governing body:
12

Percentage of official members of the highest governing body that are women:
50

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

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?:
No

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 framework of University Assembly and Council is provided for by the Statutes of Université de Montréal. The Statutes allows for the appointment or election of various stakeholders of the Université de Montréal community to the University Assembly and to the University Council, as well as to their respective Committees.

Optional Fields 

Number of people from underrepresented groups serving as official members of the institution’s highest governing body.:
4

Website URL where information about the institution’s governance structure is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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