GP4: Commission Job Description

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Area Commission

    2-1-0 GP 1: Governance Commitment

    2-2-0 GP 2: Governing Style

    2-3-0 GP 3: Code of Conduct

    2-4-0 GP 4: Commission Job Description

    2-5-0 GP 5: Commission Operations

    2-6-0 GP 6: Committee Principles

    2-7-0 GP 7: Chairperson's Role

    2-8-0 GP 8: Annual Planning and Evaluation Cycle

    2-9-0 EP 1: General Executive Constraint

    2-10-0 EP 2: Communication and Counsel to the Commission

    2-11-0 EP 3: Budgeting

    2-12-0 EP 4: Financial Condition

    2-13-0 EP 5: Asset Protection

    2-14-0 EP 6: Compensation and Benefits

    2-15-0 CPR 1: Delegation to the President

    2-16-0 CPR 2: President's Responsibilities

    2-17-0 CPR 3: Monitoring Presidential Performance

    2-18-0 Mission Statement

  3. Information Technology
  4. Plans and Analysis
  5. Marketing
  6. Financial Affairs
  7. Facilities Management
  8. Human Resources and Employee Relations
  9. Development
  10. Procurement and Inventory Control
  11. Auxiliary Enterprises and Printing Services
  12. Public Safety
  13. Division of Education
  14. Intentionally Left Blank for Future Use
  15. Intentionally Left Blank for Future Use
  16. Admissions and Registrar
  17. Student Services

NUMBER: 2-4-0 APPROVED DATE: 01-01-1998

LEGAL AUTHORITY: S.C. CODE ANN. §§59-53-410 to -440 (1997)

The job of the Commission is to promote a positive image for the college and represent the public interest by determining and demanding appropriate organizational performance. To distinguish the Commission's role from that of the college staff, the Commission will focus its efforts on the following responsibilities in compliance with its statutory obligations:

  1. Maintaining a link between the college and the community.
  2. Enacting governing policies which address:
    1. Institutional Goals: Determine the appropriate products, impacts, benefits, and outcomes for the organization. 
    2. Executive Parameters: Establish the extent of executive authority, defining the prudence and ethical boundaries within which all executive activity and decisions must take place.
    3. Governance Process: Specification of how the Commission conceives, performs, and monitors its own tasks.
    4. Commission-President Relationship: How power is delegated and monitored.
  3. Monitoring institutional effectiveness and the President's performance in meeting Commission policies on Institutional Goals and Executive Parameters.
  4. Ensuring that sufficient resources are available to meet the college's mission.

Trident Technical College Area Commission approved Governance Process Policies on May 20, 1997 for adoption on January 1, 1998.

Reviewed: 02-15-2010

Reviewed: 10-03-2017

Updated: 07-26-2022