The role of the cabinet is to advise the president, provide effective, responsive, and informed leadership to the university, and provide penultimate review of recommendations on matters of broad institutional significance.
The cabinet will ensure that the university makes timely progress toward its goal of advancing as one of the nation’s best universities by:
• Ensuring that the university successfully meets its mission
• Inculcating the university's core values throughout the organization
• Setting professional, productive, ethical, and behavioral expectations
throughout the university's policies and practices
• Maintaining the institution's financial and legal integrity
• Enabling successful leadership throughout the university that reflects
trust, integrity,openness, accountability, and timely responsiveness.
In practice, the cabinet discusses most major policy and operational issues affecting the university. The cabinet never votes, but rather its members offer recommendations and perspectives on university-wide policies and practices, and it provides advice to other cabinet members in decisions that are more specific to various programs and parts of the university.