Section 3361:10-1-01 - Board of trustees bylaws: members of the board of trustees and their powers(A) Number of members, appointments. The government of the university of Cincinnati shall be vested in a board of eleven trustees who shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate.
(1) Regular members. There shall be nine trustees whose terms of office shall be as set forth in section 3361.01 of the Revised Code.
(2) Student members. Two students shall be non-voting members of the board with the right to attend, with voice, meetings of the board and its committees. Student members shall not be entitled to attend executive sessions of the board and shall not be considered as members of the board in determining whether a quorum is present. To ensure balanced representation for undergraduate and graduate and professional students, one student member shall be an undergraduate student and one member shall be a graduate or professional student. The student members shall be appointed as follows:
(a) It shall be the responsibility of the undergraduate student body president in cooperation with the ways and means committee of the student senate to form an undergraduate student selection committee. The committee shall nominate five undergraduate students to the governor for filling any vacancy in the undergraduate student position.(b) It shall be the responsibility of the graduate student association and student governments of the colleges of law and medicine, in a manner that will fully and fairly reflect the interest of all graduate students, to nominate five graduate students to the governor for filling any vacancy in the graduate student position.(B) Powers. (1) The board of trustees shall have the powers which are conferred upon it by the laws of the state of Ohio.(2) No member or committee of the board shall have the authority to commit the board or university to any policy or action unless specifically given that power by the board.(3) During the interval between the June and September meetings of the board, the president and the appropriate board committee chairperson or in his/her absence the chairperson of the board or in his/her absence a vice chairperson of the board shall have authority to act for, and in behalf of, the board, when necessary, which action when taken by the chairperson of the board or a vice chairperson of the board, as the case may be, shall, when attested, be conclusively presumed to have been given in the absence of the appropriate board committee chairperson or the chairperson of the board, as the case may be. All such actions shall be reported to the board at its September meeting and shall be restricted to the financial powers currently entrusted to the chairperson of the finance and administration committee and the president as specified by rule 3361:10-1-06 of the administrative code. Replaces: 3361:10-1-01
Ohio Admin. Code 3361:10-1-01
Effective: 7/13/2013
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 3361
Rule Amplifies: 3361
Prior Effective Dates: 3/16/1978, 11/1/1984,4/18/1990,2/28/1995, 2/14/1997, 7/31/1997, 4/22/1999, 1/1/07