Skill Set Inventory
A comprehensive inventory of the skill sets, experience, and expertise of board members is completed annually to inform the trustee electoral and appointment processes. The benefit of such an undertaking is to ensure a diverse range of knowledge and professional expertise among Board members. The data is collected through an online survey administered by the Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research (OPAIR) on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Following the 2022 Board of Trustees skills assessment, changes were made for the 2023 assessment including setting recruitment targets for specific skills, limiting trustees to identifying their top three areas of expertise, and collecting demographic information. These adjustments facilitated a targeted gap analysis to identify areas of expertise with a deficit or overrepresentation. While this exercise is important in identification of focus areas, it should not be construed or interpreted to be exclusionary or prescriptive.