Vendor Relations Committee (VRC)

Charge: The VRC will take on four kinds of business. First, it will write the vendor relations social audit, revise it as needed, administer it to vendors, interpret the answers, and decide how to deal with vendors whose answers are inadequate. Second, it will decide controversies about our vendors in light of the principles in the Vendor Relations Policy and a factual inquiry into the relevant vendors and alternatives. This includes deciding what steps to take in response to unethical vendors. Third, it will bear responsibility to recommend revision of the principles in this document. Fourth, it will meet annually with the Vice President for Financial Affairs to review his/her lists of our major vendors and vendors with which we have decided not to do business. The decisions of the VRC will be advisory to the President of Earlham College.

Membership: One member of the teaching faculty from the college and one from ESR, each named by the faculties' nominating processes; one student from the college and one from ESR, each named by the student governments' nominating processes; one member of the hourly staff named by Employee Council; and one senior member of the Earlham administrative faculty named by the President.
Earlham College Faculty Governance Document IX. B.