1. Monitoring presidential performance is synonymous with monitoring organizational performance against board policies in the Ends, Executive Limitations, and the Board/President Relationship categories. Evaluation of the president’s performance, formal or informal, is based mainly on these monitoring data and the board evaluation of monitoring reports.

2. The purpose of monitoring is simply to determine the degree to which board policies are being fulfilled. 

3. Monitoring will be as routine as possible, using a minimum of board time. A schedule for monitoring Ends and Executive Limitations will be established. However, the board may opt to monitor any policy by any method at any time, given reasonable notice.

4.  A given policy may be monitored in one or more of three ways:

a.  Internal report from the president to the board.

b.  External report from disinterested, external auditors, reviewers or groups approved by the board. Such reports must assess executive performance only against board policies, unless that board has indicated that the external party's opinion is to be the standard (e.g., legal, audit, and accreditation standards).

c.  The board as a whole may authorize a board member, a committee, or the board as a whole, to directly inspect documents, activities or circumstances for policy compliance.  Direct inspection shall be used only in limited circumstances.

5.  Policy compliance shall be measured by a “reasonably prudent person” standard.

6. The president must produce useful information and data for the board that convinces reasonable people that the criteria contained in policy have been adhered to.

7. The board will conduct a formal annual evaluation of the president in November, utilizing the president’s evaluation instrument with board action on the president’s contract at the November board meeting each year.  This evaluation will consider only the monitoring data as defined here, as it has appeared over the intervening year, a composite of an anonymous staff evaluation, as well as the President’s Job Description.
8. As it relates to the termination of the College President, "For Cause" shall be defined as conduct which breaches any board policy within this Board Policy Governance Manual or conduct which is unbecoming of a president of CWC.