Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	51.46
Liaison	Bradley Flamm
Submission Date	March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

West Chester University of Pennsylvania
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.75 / 3.00	Bradley Flamm Director of Sustainability Office of the President

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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:

West Chester University operates with a model of shared governance in many areas of university administration and planning. A Student Government Association gives students a voice to "provide a unified and responsible government that will promote the welfare and growth of students" (https://www.wcupa.edu/_services/STU/sga/). One of eleven seats on the university's Council of Trustees is reserved for a student (voting) member. Faculty participate in academic and other aspects of university planning through a Faculty Senate (https://www.wcupa.edu/_facstaff/facultySenate/) and through the Curriculum and Academic Policies Council (https://www.wcupa.edu/viceProvost/capc/default.aspx). Non-academic staff participate in governance via four unions (AFSCME, OPEIU, SCUPA, and SPFPA) and a Non-Represented Managers Association.

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:

18.18

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

https://www.wcupa.edu/president/trustees/default.aspx

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:

WCU participates with officials from the Borough of West Chester in the "Borough University Officials Group" (BUOG). The BUOG meets approximately on a quarterly basis to “(1) Strengthen communications, understanding& opportunities for mutual cooperation between WCB and WCU officials through direct dialogue and(2) Discuss issues which may affect both the Borough and University, from a strategic, philosophical and/or conceptual perspective."

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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