A day before Ohio University's Board of Trustees discusses the presidential evaluation format, a trustee committee debated evaluating themselves.
The Governance Committee proposed a plan to comprehensively evaluate the board every four years at its meeting yesterday.
An outside consultant's report would tentatively include an observation period, interviews with the trustees and recommendations to the board. Comprehensive evaluations could possibly include opinions from faculty and other constituents.
In other years, the board would require the trustees to complete a self-assessment form, beginning this year. If approved, the first evaluation could occur in academic year 2010-11.
We would ask the individual trustees how they assess their own performance and how they think the board is working as a whole
said Ned E. Dewire, trustee and chairman of the committee.
The committee also plans to create a fast feedback form to be completed at every meeting. The form will evaluate the meeting's organization and topics of discussion among other things.
Within the next year, the committee hopes to frame a code of ethics for the board with the help of Interim Director of Legal Affairs John Biancamano, Dewire said. The committee did not discuss the specifics of what a code of ethics would include but did look at a code drafted by Ohio State University.
We are employing ourselves and identifying ways in which the board can do its job better said Biancamano. The code will answer what the roles of the trustees are and what is expected of the trustees, he added.
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Proposed format includes outside consultation, report of observations, interviews with trustees, recommendations every 4 years
