The provided standards outline the expected conduct and responsibilities for college trustees. It details standards of practice, emphasizing the board's role in creating a student-focused learning environment, establishing college policies, and ensuring sound fiscal management. The document also includes a code of ethics, stressing the importance of informed decision-making, harmonious collaboration among board members, and prioritizing the community's well-being over personal gain. Overall, the standards and code collectively serve as a comprehensive guide for trustees, promoting accountable, ethical, and effective governance within a community college setting.

Standards of Practice for Danville Area Community College Board of Trustees:

1. The primary focus of the board s to create a learning environment that welcomes and promotes the success of a diverse student body.
2. Trustees will follow all college policies, and board decisions and interactions should reflect the vision, mission, and values of the college.
3. Trustees commit to developing and maintaining positive relations with fellow board members, respecting opinions, and working together to achieve common goals.
4. The board derives authority from and is accountable to the community; trustees will seek the well-being of the entire community and represent it in board decisions, without using their position for personal benefit or to obtain employment for themselves, family members, or close associates.
5. The board's primary function is to establish policies for college administration, respecting the delegation of authority to the college president to initiate policy recommendations, administer academic programs, conduct college business, and implement board actions.
6. Authority rests with the entire board, expressed through policies and actions in official meetings, as individuals have no legal authority to determine policies, programs, or procedures.
7. Trustees will demonstrate a commitment to informed, ethical decision-making by reviewing board materials, attending scheduled meetings, and requesting data and information through established protocols.
8. The board shall fulfill fiduciary responsibility for sound budgetary and fiscal management by reviewing financial reports and following established procedures, and trustees will demonstrate personal accountability and transparency in submitting reimbursement requests for expenses.
9. Deliberations in closed session are confidential and not for public release or discussion without prior board approval by majority vote; trustees will maintain confidentiality to establish and maintain trust.
10. Trustees will communicate and promote the needs to the community to the college and the needs of the college to the community, respecting established communication roles and procedures, demonstrating a unified voice, and following up through appropriate channels.
11. the board is responsible for creating and maintaining a spirit of cooperation and a mutually supportive relationship with its president, promoting a healthy working relationship through respectful, supportive, open, and honest communication, and referring contracts from employees, students, and community residents to the president. Trustees will notify the president if they wish to meet informally or formally with employees and students.
12. Trustees will devote time to activities that enhance knowledge of the college, the community college system, and higher education issues, engaging in ongoing professional development and participating in college events as appropriate.

Trustee Code of Ethics for a Governing Board Member:

1. Devote time, thought, and study to the duties and responsibilities of a community college trustee member so that effective and credible service can be rendered.
2. Work with fellow board members in a spirit of harmony and cooperation despite differences of opinion that arise during vigorous debates.
3. Base personal decisions upon all available facts, vote honest convictions unswayed by partisan bias, and abide by and uphold the final majority decision of the board.
4. Always remember that as an individual, there is no legal authority outside board meetings, and conduct relationships with college staff, the community, and media based on this fact.
5. Resist every temptation and outside pressure to use the position as a community college board member to benefit oneself or any other individual or agency apart from the total interest of the community college district.
6. Recognize that it is as important for the board to understand and evaluate the educational programming of the college community as it is to plan for the business of college operation.
7. Bear in mind under all circumstances that the primary function of the board is to establish the policies by which the college is to be administered.
8. Welcome and encourage active cooperation by citizens, organizations, and the media in the district with respect to establishing policy on current college operations and proposed future developments.
9. Support the state and national community college trustee's associations.
10. Strive toward excellence in trustee work to sustain the most effective community college board service to the community, in a spirit of teamwork and devotion to public education.

In accordance with Robert's Rules of Order, the Board of Trustees may, after investigation and upon written findings of fact, adopt, by majority vote, a resolution of censure with respect to any trustees who violate the provisions of Board Policies 1000 - College Trustee Standards and Ethics, 1020.1 - Conflict of Interest, 1010, and other policies that may be deemed relevant.