Strategic Equity Plan Roles

Who’s Who in Strategic Equity Planning

Descriptions of roles

Board of Trustees

Appointed with a fiduciary responsibility to provide overall direction for the college. They set direction for the development of the Strategic Equity Plan and make the ultimate decisions about the plan's adoption.

Shared Governance

Primary means for communicating perspectives from constituents across the college. Shared governance will be engaged throughout the process to collect input and communicate information about issues related to the development and implementation of the Strategic Equity Plan.

Community and Stakeholder Input

Constituent perspectives are gathered via surveys, focus groups, interviews, and other means to provide additional insights into constituent perspectives.

President's Cabinet

The authorized leadership responsible for the college's policy implementation, programming, and operations. Works with input collected from the Shared Governance process, Crowdsourced Input, and SEP Steering Committee to develop an actionable Strategic Equity Plan that fulfills the direction set by the Board of Trustees.

SEP Steering Committee

A working group made up of students, faculty, and staff with the responsibility of identifying and deliberating about issues for consideration by the President's Cabinet, including (but not limited to):

• Issues about which constituent groups have significantly conflicting perspectives.
• Possible approaches to help integrate equity considerations across the overall Strategic Equity Plan.
• Elevating issues of significant interest for one or more constituents.

SEP Project Management Team

Provides administrative and project management support for the SEP process. Made up of the SEP Co-Chairs (College President and Executive Director of DEI), Executive Assistant to the President and secretary to the Board of Trustees, and the Strategic Planning consultants.