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PROPOSED
REVISIONS TO BOARD OF TRUSTEE LEGISLATION
SECTION 59‑125‑20. Composition of
board of trustees.
A. The board of trustees of
Winthrop University is composed of the Governor and the State
Superintendent of Education or their designees who are members
ex officio of the board, seven other members each to be elected
by the joint vote of the General Assembly, as hereinafter
provided, and two graduates of Winthrop University to be
appointed by the Winthrop University Alumni Association or its
successors, as hereinafter provided.
In the event that the office of the State Superintendent of
Education becomes an appointed position instead of an elected
position, the seat on the board of trustees of Winthrop
University occupied by the designee the State Superintendent of
Education shall become an at-large seat to be elected by the
joint vote of the General Assembly.
B. In addition to the members of
the board in subsection A, there shall be one additional member
of the board appointed by the Governor. The Governor shall
make the appointment based on merit regardless of race, color,
creed, or gender and shall strive to assure that the membership
of the board is representative of all citizens of the State of
South Carolina.
SECTION 59-125-30. Election of
board members; terms; vacancies.
Of the seven members to be elected by the General Assembly,
one member must be elected from each of the six congressional
districts and the remaining member must be elected by the
General Assembly from the State at large. Each position on the
board constitutes a separate office and the seats on the board
are numbered consecutively as follows: for the First
Congressional District, Seat One; for the Second Congressional
District, Seat Two; for the Third Congressional District, Seat
Three; for the Fourth Congressional District, Seat Four; for the
Fifth Congressional District, Seat Five; for the Sixth
Congressional District, Seat Six; for the at‑large
position elected by the General Assembly, Seat Seven; for the
designee of the State Superintendent of Education, Seat Eight;
for the at-large positions elected by the Winthrop University
Alumni Association or its successors, Seats Nine and Ten;
the member appointed by the Governor shall occupy Seat Eleven;
the Governor or his or her designee shall occupy Seat Twelve.
The regular term of office of the elective members of the board
of trustees is six years with the members first elected being
elected two for two years, two for four years, and three for six
years. In electing members of the board, the General
Assembly shall elect members based on merit regardless of race,
color, creed, or gender and shall strive to assure that the
membership of the board is representative of all citizens of the
State of South Carolina. The General Assembly shall
hold elections every even‑numbered year to fill vacancies as
they occur in the board by the expiration of terms of office.
The present elective members of the board of trustees shall
continue to serve until the thirtieth day of June of the year in
which their terms are scheduled to expire. Those
persons elected by the General Assembly in 2002 shall have their
Seats designated as the Seat number corresponding to the
Congressional District from which they are elected. The
General Assembly shall hold elections to fill vacancies as they
occur in the board by the expiration of terms of office as
follows: Seat One in 2006, Seat Two in 2008, Seat Three in 2004,
Seat Four in 2004, Seat Five in 2006, Seat Six in 2008, and Seat
Seven in 2005. After its 1984 session, the General
Assembly shall elect successors to those trustees whose terms
are expiring not earlier than the first day of April for a term
to begin the following July first. Elections to fill
vacancies which are caused by the death, resignation, or removal
of an elective trustee may be held earlier than the first day of
April of the year in which the unexpired term terminates, but
the term of the person elected to fill the vacancy expires on
the last day of June of the year in which the term of the former
member would have expired. When there is a vacancy
otherwise occurring in the board of trustees among the elected
members, the Governor may fill it by appointment until the next
session of the General Assembly. The successors to the
two present members who are graduates of Winthrop College
appointed by the Winthrop College Alumnae Association or its
successors must be elected by the members of the Winthrop
College Alumnae Association at its annual meeting held at
Winthrop College during commencement week in 1958 and they shall
serve for a term of four years and their successors must be
elected at the similar annual meeting every four years
thereafter. The members of the Board elected by the
Winthrop University Alumni Association or its successors to fill
Seats Nine and Ten in 2002 shall be elected for four year terms.
In 2006 the person elected by the Winthrop University Alumni
Association or its successors to fill Seat Nine shall serve a
six year term and the person elected by the Winthrop University
Alumni Association or its successors to fill Seat Ten shall
serve a four year term. At the completion of those terms
of office, all subsequent members of the Board elected by the
Winthrop University Alumni Association or its successors to fill
Seats Nine and Ten shall be elected for six year terms. The
names of the two those so elected must be
certified to the Secretary of State by the president and
secretary of the association and they shall take office
immediately after the certification. The terms of
the at‑large trustees appointed by the Governor is
effective upon certification to the Secretary of State and is
six years co-terminus with the term of office of the
Governor. Any vacancy in the office of the member
appointed by the Governor must be filled by appointment of the
Governor for the unexpired term in the same manner of original
appointment.
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RESOLUTION TO
ENDORSE PROPOSED STATUTORY AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPOSITION AND
ELECTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of Winthrop University continues
to actively support the goal of attracting and retaining
outstanding citizens to serve as Trustees of the University; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of
Winthrop University recognizes an ongoing need to ensure that
the composition of the Board appropriately reflects the
University’s state-wide mission; and
WHEREAS, the President of Winthrop
University has proposed a framework for addressing these issues
through legislative amendments to the statutes governing the
composition of the Board of Trustees and the election of members
to the Board of Trustees; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees
supports the proposed framework for restructuring the
composition of the Board of Trustees and the election of members
to the Board of Trustees and encourages the President to seek
legislative action to implement the proposed framework;
THEREFORE LET IT BE
RESOLVED that the Winthrop University Board of Trustees endorses
and supports the implementation of the restructuring of the
Board as a significant element of the Board’s ongoing commitment
to institutional progress and development.
December 15, 2001
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