| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 51.51 |
| Liaison | Kirk Hemphill |
| Submission Date | Feb. 12, 2024 |
Florida Institute of Technology
PA-3: Inclusive and Participatory Governance
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
1.88 / 3.00 |
Ken
Lindeman Professor, Sustainability Studies Ocean Engineering & Marine Sciences |
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:
Student Government Association - Students, campus wide.
Faculty Senate - Academic Staff, campus wide.
Staff Advisory Committee - Non-academic staff, campus-wide. This committee addresses staff governance and work issues. Relevant accomplishments include: increased vacation accrual rate for non-exempt hourly employees beginning 10 yrs of service, list of daycare centers available to staff, employee sick leave "bank", campus road safety upgrades, and Professional Development programs. https://www.fit.edu/sac/.
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:
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:
Website URL where information about the institution’s highest governing body may be found:
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?:
A brief description of the campus-community council or equivalent body that gives external stakeholders a regular voice in institutional decisions that affect them:
- Multi-stakeholder community forums are held in January of each year on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. These have been annual since 2019 but were postponed in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID pandemic. Post-pandemic, the 2023 and 2024 resumption of these annual January forums has been successful. The forums are open to any community member in neighboring cities, the larger Brevard county area, and beyond.
- Community members are invited to these events via web and social media promotion and postings on many outlets by Florida Tech News and Marketing, as well as other partners in the community. There are also news summaries (e.g., https://news.fit.edu/alumni/florida-tech-celebrates-martin-luther-king-jr-at-community-event-jan-19/).
- The events have multiple speakers on timely, socially relevant issues. Questions and answers allow direct public input from community members of relevance and potential relevance to institutional decisions that may affect community members (e.g., community relations, shared road safety).
- The university’s commitment to listening to these inputs is substantial. Long term Florida Tech leads on this include senior faculty and staff who interact with multiple community leaders via these forums (e.g., Dr. Gordon Patterson, Professor of Arts and Communication, and Nancy Garmer, Assistant Dean of the Evans Library).
- Each year, major public awards for Pioneering and also Bridge Building are presented to leaders in the community bringing outside voices onto campus for staff, faculty and students to learn from. These awards reinforce the importance and community-scale penetration of these forums. These events are free and hosted by the Florida Tech Alumni Association and the Black Student Union at the Gleason Center on the university’s main campus.
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:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Information from spring semester 2024, Part 4 includes CY 2023. Data sourced from the University's web site, the Florida Tech News Site, the Office of the President, and the Academic Sustainability Program.
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