Board Responsibility for Equitable Student Success
Board Roles and Responsibilities
Establishing, disseminating, and keeping current the mission of the institution
- One of the key roles of the board is to guide the institution as it strives to maintain its mission.
- Institutional mission provides an overview of the institution’s goals.
Action Items
- Using equity and student success as a guide, examine whether equitable student success is indicated as part of the mission, vision, and values.
Metrics and Assessment Tactics
- Identify what key words in the mission are “equity centered.”
- Use a mission rubric.
- Review institutional data.
- Check institutional values statements and vision statements.
- Show ways and places that mission, vision, and values manifest equitable student success.
Questions to Pose
- Does this mission fit where we are as an institution now?
- How might the mission need to be adapted so that it aligns with where we are as an institution?
- How can we ensure our mission is current in our vision and strategic plan?
- How does our board demonstrate its commitment to achieving equitable student success?
Next Responsibility:
Selecting, supporting, and assessing the chief executive of the institution/system→
What does success look like?
An Institutional Example:
University of Louisville Mission and Vision Statement
Mission Statement
The University of Louisville pursues excellence and inclusiveness in its work to educate and serve its community through:
- teaching diverse undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in order to develop engaged citizens, leaders, and scholars;
- practicing and applying research, scholarship and creative activity; and
- providing engaged service and outreach that improve the quality of life for local and global communities.
The University is committed to achieving preeminence as a premier anti-racist metropolitan research university.
Vision Statement
The University of Louisville will be recognized as a great place to learn, a great place to work, and a great place in which to invest because we celebrate diversity, foster equity, and strive for inclusion.
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