Governance
Bylaws
Nominations by Petition or
at Annual Meeting
A. The Chair of the College Board shall annually appoint a standing Trustee Committee on Nominations to propose nominees for those members of the Board of Trustees who are to be elected at the next Annual Meeting and nominees for the offices of Chair and Vice Chair of the College Board if a vacancy in such offices, or either of them, has occurred or will occur by expiration of terms of office at the time of the Annual Meeting. No member of the Committee shall be eligible for any such nomination. The Committee shall include at least two persons not currently serving on the Board of Trustees of the College Board.
B. The Trustee Committee on nominations shall file its report with the Secretary of the Corporation at least twelve weeks before the Annual Meeting, proposing in its discretion either a single nomination for each Trustee and officer vacancy to be filled or multiple nominations for any such vacancy. The report of the Committee shall be distributed by the Secretary to all members of the College Board at least eight weeks before the Annual Meeting.
C. An additional nomination for a vacancy for which the Trustee Committee on Nominations has proposed a nomination or nominations may be made by petition signed by a representative of each of fifty (50) members of the Board. A nominating petition must be filed with the Secretary of the Corporation at least four weeks before the Annual Meeting.
D. Additional nominations for any vacancy may be proposed at the Annual Meeting of the College Board by any member represented at the meeting but no such nomination shall be effective unless it is approved as a nomination by a majority vote of the meeting.
