2.3.4 Student Participation in Governance

Students’ participation in governance is broad and significant. Four students—two from the College of Arts and Sciences, and one each from the Graduate School of Education and Counseling and the Law School—are appointed by the board chair to sit on all standing committees of the board except the committees on investments, nominations, and audit. Students also serve on many standing and ad hoc operational committees of the College at large, and participate extensively in the governance of their respective schools.

College of Arts and Sciences: Student representatives serve as voting members on most administrative searches and routinely sit on search committees for faculty positions. Two student members are voting members of the Committee on the Curriculum and others serve with the Curriculum subcommittees on Course Proposals and International Studies. One student participates on the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid and one on the Committee on the Library and Educational Technology. Nomination and/or appointment of student representatives to committees is overseen by the Associated Students of Lewis & Clark College (ASLC) and forwarded to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for final approval.

Graduate School of Education and Counseling: Students in the Graduate School of Education and Counseling routinely serve on faculty search committees. Nomination of the representatives to search committees is overseen by the respective departments. All nominations are forwarded to the associate dean of the Graduate School of Education and Counseling for final approval. Students participate through the Student Union Network on the schoolwide council, a primary governing body for the Graduate School.

Law School: Two student representatives participate in and vote at meetings of the faculty except as provided in Article II, Sec. 4 of the Law School bylaws pertaining to executive sessions of meetings of the law faculty and except for promotion and tenure decisions as set forth in Article II, Sec. 7 of the bylaws and other Law School documents. Except for the Sabbatical and Leave Committee, two students, one day and one evening, serve as student representatives on the standing committees of the Law School.