ORS 352.091 Required policies of governing boards

The governing board of each public university listed in ORS 352.002 shall formally adopt policies that:

Provide the opportunity at all regularly scheduled meetings of the governing board for live comments;

Allow a representative from official student, faculty and nonfaculty staff governance organizations to provide comments or report to the governing board at regularly scheduled meetings of the governing board;

Allow a representative from official campus labor organizations to provide comments or report to the governing board at regularly scheduled meetings of the governing board, if the representative has requested the opportunity to provide comments or report to the board in advance of the meeting;

Require the inclusion of at least one faculty member, one nonfaculty staff member and one member of the student body as part of presidential search committees;

Ensure that all members of the governing board are provided with institutional electronic mail addresses;

Require the public university to clearly and publicly post the electronic mail addresses described in subsection (5) of this section on the website of the public university;

Require ongoing reviews of the practices and policies of the public university relating to transparency and access;

Require the inclusion and participation of faculty, nonfaculty staff and student representatives when conducting the reviews described in subsection (7) of this section;

Require that the governing board, or the designee of the governing board, respond to questions that arise from public comments at meetings of the governing board;

Memorialize the process for filling appointments to the governing board;

Require that when a vacancy on the governing board is expected:

At a public meeting, the governing board will assess the needs of the board and identify the ideal characteristics of any individual chosen to fill the vacancy, including but not limited to preferred skill sets, experience or geographic representation;

The governing board will invite members of the public university community to submit recommendations about the ideal characteristics described in paragraph (a) of this subsection to the board; and

That when the governing board notifies the Governor that there will be a vacancy on the board, the board also communicates to the Governor the ideal characteristics identified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection; and

Require the governing board to:

Regularly conduct a self-evaluation; and

At each self-evaluation, provide an opportunity for the university community to provide written input or public testimony evaluating the work of the board. [2023 c.280 §3]

2023, provide: Sec. 4. (1) No later than July 2 of each year, each public university listed in ORS 352.002 shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245 to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education, detailing the degree to which the public university has complied with:

Drafting the formal policies described in section 3 of this 2023 Act [352.091]; and

Fulfilling the obligations contained in the policies described in section 3 of this 2023 Act.

The report prepared under subsection (1) of this section must include input from representatives of official student, faculty and nonfaculty staff governance organizations. [2023 c.280 §4] Sec. 5. Section 4 of this 2023 Act is repealed on January 2, 2026.