PROPOSED GOALS
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Goal 1: Community Engagement
Listening
How do stakeholders experience shared governance?
- Board of Trustees
- Faculty
- Administrators and Staff
- Students
Building Consensus
- Teaching our community about the AAUP model and its implementation at Siena
- Developing recommendations to strengthen shared governance at Siena
Goal 2: Self-Assessment
- Complete AAUP self-assessment; compare to national AAUP Shared Governance Survey
- Review existing governance documents
- Discussions with community & internally – what can we learn from past experiences?
- Identify current strengths and opportunities for growth
Goal 3: Documentation
- Philosophy Statement
- Graphics Package
- Decision Matrix
- Drafts to community for feedback in Spring 2025
- Finalized by June 2025
GOAL 4: Recommendations
- Shared Governance is affected more by institutional culture than by documents and policies
- We will recommend ongoing actions to strengthen & maintain a culture of shared governance at Siena
- Draft to community for feedback in Spring 2025
- Final report with recommendations by June 2025