Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.24
Liaison Tess Esposito
Submission Date Feb. 23, 2017
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of Dayton
EN-13: Community Stakeholder Engagement

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00
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Has the institution adopted a framework for community stakeholder engagement in governance, strategy and operations?:
Yes

A brief description of the policies and procedures that ensure community stakeholder engagement is applied systematically and regularly across the institution’s activities:

Board of Trustees Local Community Membership. The University of Dayton’s governing Code of Regulations ensures that community stakeholders are participants in university governance, strategy, and operations. The Code (Article V Section 5) stipulates that at least 20% of the total number of Trustees, including ex officio voting Trustees, shall represent involvement in the Greater Dayton community. “Greater Dayton” means the eight-county area consisting of Montgomery, Greene, Miami, Clarke, Darke, Warren, Butler, and Preble counties. https://www.udayton.edu/legalaffairs/governingdocs/code-of-regulations-page.php

Fitz Center Mission Statement provides a framework for stakeholder engagement. The Fitz Center for Leadership in Community initiates and sustains partnerships within urban neighborhoods and larger communities that both support comprehensive community building and provide a context for broadly connected learning and scholarship. The agenda of the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community, the University’s lead community engagement organization, is determined entirely on the basis of the leadership challenges facing the community partners. Twenty-five nonprofit and local government partners participate in one or more of the Fitz Center’s leadership programs: Semester of Service, Dayton Civic Scholars, Graduate Community Fellows, Neighborhood School Centers, and/or Rivers Institute and River Stewards. All contribute to monthly or quarterly face-to-face discussions of emerging community challenges and the University’s current and desired role in addressing the challenges.


A brief description of how the institution identifies and engages community stakeholders, including any vulnerable or underrepresented groups:

Through the Fitz Center, stakeholders are identified as those serving or representing disadvantaged communities and areas of high poverty. For example, working with Dayton Pubic Schools and the City of Dayton, the partnership identifies sites for Neighborhood School Centers and Community Leadership Development seminar.


List of identified community stakeholders:

City of Dayton. Dayton Development Corporation. East End Community Partners. Five Rivers Metroparks. Miami Conservancy District. Homefull. Dayton Public Schools. Adventure Central. Catholic Social Services of the Miami Valley. City of Dayton Water Department. Dakota Center. Additional stakeholders listed: https://www.udayton.edu/artssciences/ctr/fitz/community_progs/community_partners.php


A brief description of successful community stakeholder engagement outcomes from the previous three years:

UD-City of Dayton/Dayton Development Corporation partnership resulted in two employers siting new research and development offices in the City of Dayton, bringing needed sector diversification.


The website URL where information about the institution’s community stakeholder engagement framework and activities is available:
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