Systemic Resilience: COTA Meta-Strategy, 2021-2025
Systemic Resilience: COTA Meta-Strategy, 2021-2025

Implementation

Pillar III: Shared Governance

The College of the Arts, recognizing the potential power embedded in the concept of shared governance, will facilitate practices and processes where students, staff, and faculty understand the scope, mechanisms, and responsibilities of that power and feel capable of utilizing that knowledge for action in shared governance spaces. 

Implementation Highlights

YEAR 1  |  COMPLETED
  1. Increase awareness of shared governance. 
  2. Increase and focus participation in shared governance.
  3. ​Assess, review, and evolve shared governance processes. By-laws reviewed and revised by CAM, SOM, SOTD, and Graphic Design in SAAH, and developed for Dean's Office; by-laws review in progress for SAAH and DW. FPAC processes reviewed and revised by multiple units.
YEAR 2  | COMPLETED
  1. Increase awareness of shared governance.
  2. Increase and focus participation in shared governance.
  3. Assess, review, and evolve shared governance processes. Faculty Council put forth a COTA Constitutional Amendment to restructure the timing and method of Review of Administrators. In SAAH, by-laws and mentoring system revisions initiated. In DW, by-laws update submitted for DW faculty spring vote.
YEAR 3 | IN PROGRESS
  1. Increase awareness of shared governance. 
  2. Increase and focus participation in shared governance.
  3. Assess, review, and evolve shared governance processes. 
Year 4
  1. Increase awareness of shared governance. 
  2. Increase and focus participation in shared governance.
  3. Assess, review, and evolve shared governance processes.
Year 5
  1. Increase awareness of shared governance. 
  2. Increase and focus participation in shared governance. 
  3. Assess, review, and evolve shared governance processes.