Servite High School’s Board of Directors is a governing Board. This means that the Board is responsible for governing the activities of the School. Servite’s Bylaws state “The affairs, business and all legal matters of the [School] shall be managed by the Board of Directors under the authority and direction of the [Servite Order].” While the responsibility of the Board is broad, the Board does not try to run the school on a day to day basis. Instead, the School will be operated by professional staff, subject to Board oversight. The key members of this professional staff, as identified in the Servite Bylaws, are the President, the Chief Financial Officer and the Principal.
The Board, working with the Servite Order, has devised a governance model which outlines how the Board will provide oversight of the School, while at the same time empowering professional staff to operate the School. This model follows the governance approach first developed by Dr. John Carver, widely recognized as a leader in the field of non-profit organizational governance. The Servite Governance Model focuses primarily on a single relationship – the relationship between the Servite Board of Directors and the President of Servite.