Governance Task Force/minutes 091119


 * Posted to the intranet on Monday, December 7, 2009 by Abby Ferguson

Report of the Meeting of the Governance Task Force Meeting November 19, 2009 Hampshire College

Present: Stephan Jost (call-in), Dee Dee Desir, Yaniris Fernandez, Marian MacCurdy (co-chair), Shelly Ruocco, Jim Wald, Laura Sizer, Lee Spector, Susan Tracy (co-chair) Josiah Litant, Andrew Hart.

Excused: Laura Nasir, Shelley Carey.

Proceedings:

I. The meeting was called to order at 8:38 a.m.

II. The minutes and the report of the November 6, 2009 meeting were approved.

III. Narratives and audit sheets were distributed and discussion of the narratives ensued. Task force members are especially looking for and documenting discrepancies between what governance documents indicate and what evolved common practice dictates. We agreed that the audit reports and narratives themselves should be solely fact-based. Once the audit is completed, we will be investigating governance processes and documents for their efficacy, so although the audits should be fact-based and not reflect assessments of those processes and documents, GTF members should note for future reference areas that need to be addressed.

IV. The meeting adjourned at 10:48 a.m.

The next meetings of the Governance Task Force will be on Thursday, December 3, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m., Friday, December 11, 12:00 -2:00 p.m., and Friday, December 18, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.