4.2.g Board Self-Evaluation
The governing
board defines and regularly evaluates its responsibilities and expectations.
x Compliance o Non-Compliance o Partial
Compliance
The Louisiana BOR
is the coordinating board for all higher education in the State, and UL
Lafayette’s governing board is the UL System BOS. The BOS defines and regularly
evaluates its responsibilities and expectations. The BOS’ responsibilities and
expectations are broadly defined as supervision and management of the
institutions under its purview by the Louisiana State Constitution.
The BOS defines
its responsibilities and expectations in detail and explicitly in its Bylaws, Section V, Duties, Powers, and Functions.
Section XII of the BOS’s Bylaws, Board Self-Evaluation, approved June 21, 2018, states:
To assess the effectiveness of the Board (as a unit), the Board
will continue to regularly define and evaluate its responsibilities and
expectations as follows:
1. The Board will conduct a self-evaluation of its
responsibilities and expectations at least every two years. The Board may also
choose to engage in an additional self-evaluation upon the election of a new
Chairman.
2. The self-evaluation will include assessments regarding
(a) Board organization, leadership,
and committee responsibilities and structure;
(b) Board orientation and ongoing
education;
(c) Board fiduciary oversight of UL
System and the ULS institutions;
(d) Board’s oversight of the President
of the System as chief executive officer; and
(e) Board’s method for identifying and
addressing potential conflicts of
interest.
Even before this
policy went into effect, the Board regularly participated in self-evaluation
activities. Professional development sessions “focus on an area of interest or need
as identified by the Chair of the Board or the System President.” A March
2017 example was
facilitated by Dr. Kenneth Shaw, Senior Consultant, Association of Governing
Board of Colleges and Universities, and included a broad self-evaluation and an
evaluation survey.
Now that the
policy is in place, the BOS regularly undertakes evaluations of its
responsibilities and expectations, and its performance in meeting them, through
a formal self-evaluation scheduled to occur every two years. The first of these took place as part of a
retreat in February, 2019:
·
2019 Board
self-evaluation retreat agenda
·
2019
Board Retreat PowerPoint
The BOS orients
all its new members to the responsibilities and expectations of the Board, and
evaluates its own responsibilities, expectations, and performance as part of
the planning and carrying out of regular Board professional development
activities.
2019 Board Consultant PowerPoint
2019 Board self-evaluation retreat
agenda
Louisiana State Constitution, Article
VIII
PPM B. VIII. -1: Orientation for new
Board Members and Board Member Prof. Development