Editing Trinity College Dublin (section)

====Board====
Aside from the Provost, Fellows and Scholars, Trinity College has a Board (dating from 1637), which carries out general governance.<ref name=":5" />{{rp|5}} Originally the Board consisted of the Provost and Senior Fellows only. There were seven Senior Fellows, defined as those seven fellows that had served longest, Fellowship at that time being for life, unless resigned.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} 

Over the years, a representational element was added, for example by having elected representatives of the Junior Fellows and of those professors who were not Fellows, with the last revision before Irish Independence being made by [[Royal Letters Patent]] in 1911.<ref name=":5" /> At that time there were, as well as the Senior Fellows, two elected representatives of those professors who were not Fellows and elected representatives of the Junior Fellows.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} Over the years, while formal revision did not take place, partly due to the complexity of the process, a number of additional representatives were added to the Board but as "observers" and not full voting members.<ref name=":5" />{{rp|67}} These included representatives of academic staff who were not Fellows, and representatives of students. 

In practice, all attending the Board meetings were treated as equals, with votes, while not common, were taken by a show of hands. But it remained the case that legally only the full members of the Board could have their votes recorded and it was mere convention that they always ratified the decision taken by the show of hands.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

The governance of Trinity College was next formally changed in 2000, by the [[Oireachtas]], in The Trinity College, Dublin (Charters and Letters Patent Amendment) Act 2000, legislation proposed by the Board of the college and approved by the Body Corporate.<ref>{{cite ISB|title=The Trinity College, Dublin (Charters and Letters Patent Amendment) Act 2000|year=2000|type=prv|num=1|date=6 November 2000|access-date=4 May 2023|language=en|archive-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626215617/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/act/pub/0024/index.html}}</ref> This was introduced separately from the Universities Act 1997.<ref>{{cite ISB|title=Universities Act 1997|year=1997|num=24|date=14 May 1997|access-date=4 May 2023|language=en|archive-date=26 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626215617/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/act/pub/0024/index.html}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> 

It states that the Board shall comprise of<ref name=":5" />{{rp|75}}
* The Provost, Vice-Provost/Chief Academic Officer, Senior Lecturer, Registrar and Bursar;
* Six Fellows;
* Five members of the academic staff who are not Fellows, at least three of whom must be of a rank not higher than senior lecturer;
* Two members of the academic staff of the rank of professor;
* Three members of the non-academic staff;
* Four students of the college, at least one of whom shall be a post-graduate student;
* One member, not an employee or student of the college, chosen by a Board committee from nominations made by organisations "representative of such business or professional interest as the Board considers appropriate";
* One member nominated by the [[Minister for Education (Ireland)|Minister for Education]] following consultation with the Provost.