Editing Rutgers University (section)

===Governing boards===
Governance at Rutgers University rests with a board of trustees consisting of 41 members, and a board of governors consisting of 15 voting members: eight are appointed by the [[Governor of New Jersey]] and seven chosen by and from among the board of trustees.<ref name="Targeted">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/health/hset/chapter6.htm |title=Commission on Health Science, Education, and Training: Rutgers Targeted Assessment |access-date=August 31, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050831235722/http://www.state.nj.us/health/hset/chapter6.htm |archive-date=August 31, 2005  }} accessed June 20, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOTmembers.shtml Rutgers: Members of the Board of Trustees] accessed August 15, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901094715/http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOTmembers.shtml |date=September 1, 2006 }}</ref><ref>[http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOGmembers.shtml Rutgers:Members of the Board of Governors] accessed August 15, 2006. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205200723/http://ruweb.rutgers.edu/governance/BOGmembers.shtml |date=February 5, 2012 }}</ref> The trustees constitute chiefly an advisory body to the board of governors and are the fiduciary overseers of the property and assets of the university that existed before the institution became the State University of New Jersey in 1945. The initial reluctance of the trustees (still acting as a private corporate body) to cede control of certain business affairs to the state government for direction and oversight caused the state to establish the Board of governors in 1956.<ref>[http://ur.rutgers.edu/magazine/article/View%20from%20the%20Inside/38/ "A View from the Inside"]  {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20060509173603/http://ur.rutgers.edu/magazine/article/View%20from%20the%20Inside/38/ |date=May 9, 2006 }} (an interview with Dr. Richard P. McCormick) by Thomas J. Frusciano in ''Rutgers Magazine'' (Winter 2006). Retrieved August 16, 2006.</ref> Today, the board of governors maintains much of the corporate control of the university.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Governing Boards of the University {{!}} |url=https://governingboards.rutgers.edu/ |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=governingboards.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

The members of the board of trustees are voted upon by different constituencies or appointed. "Two faculty and two students are elected by the University Senate as nonvoting representatives. The 59 voting members are chosen in the following way as mandated by state law: 20 charter members (of whom at least three shall be women), 16 alumni members nominated by the nominating committee of the board of trustees, and five public members appointed by the governor of the state with confirmation by the [[New Jersey Senate]].<ref>[https://governingboards.rutgers.edu Governing Boards], Rutgers University. Accessed January 1, 2025. "Rutgers University is governed by a Board of Governors composed of 15 voting members vested generally with the government, control, conduct, management, and administration of the university. Rutgers also has an advisory Board of Trustees of 41 voting members empowered with certain fiduciary responsibilities over assets of the university in existence before 1956. The university president is a nonvoting, ex-officio member of both boards."</ref>