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Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS)+Role for Faculty in Decision-making+About

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This credit recognizes institutions that engage students, staff, faculty and local community members in the ongoing governance of the college or university. Governance includes a variety of organizational functions and decision-making processes, from financial oversight and personnel management to goal-setting and strategic planning. Sustainability requires participatory processes and structures that empower stakeholder groups to come together and work collaboratively to address sustainability challenges through access to and involvement in institutional governance. Without transformed governance structures, many sustainability gains cannot be realized.

Part 1
Institution has adopted a framework for engaging internal stakeholders (i.e., students, staff, faculty) in governance. The framework includes:

  • Representative bodies through which students, staff and/or faculty can each participate in governance (e.g., student council, staff council, faculty senate);

And/or

  • Elected student, staff and/or faculty representatives on the institution’s highest governing body. To count, representatives must be elected by their peers or appointed by a representative student, staff or faculty body or organization.