that are responsible for two or more in-
stitutional units. The former is termed
a "governing board" and the latter a
''governing-coordinating board" — termi-
nology borrowed from S. V. Martorana
and Ernest V. Hollis in their comprehen-
sive study state boards responsible
for higher education. The Board of
Trustees of the University of North Caro-
lina falls within the second category, since
it exercises control over four separate in-
stitutional units. Data collected for gov-
erning boards can be found in Appendix
I at page 291, and the data collected for
governing-coordinating boards can be
found in Appendix II at pages 293-296.
METHOD OF SELECTION
There were six basic methods used in
the selection of members by the institu-
tional governing boards examined.
They are:
1. Appointment by the governor;
2. Election by popular vote ;
3. Election by the state legislature;
4. Election by the alumni ;
5. Election by a special group; and
6. Ex officio membership.
Of these six, appointment by the gov-
ernor is the one most commonly used.
Thirteen of the twenty-two boards ex-
amined (Or 59 per cent) are selected
by this method, with appointment to
twelve of them requiring confirmation
by the upper house of the state legis-
lature. Two of these thirteen boards,
however, have only part of their mem-
bers appointed by the governor.5
In terms of the total number of trus-
tees on the twenty-two state university
5 The Trustees of Purdue University are
elected in part by the alumni, and the Board
of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University
are elected in part by alumni and in part by
special interest groups.
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boards, 143 of a grand total of 362
trustees, or 40 per cent, are appointed
by the Governor to their trusteeship.
Compared to the national average for
209 boards of state-supported institu-
tions of higher education, compiled in
1960 by Martorana and Hollis for the
U. S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare,0 this percentage is low.
Martorana and Hollis reported that
70.2 per cent of all state board members
are appointed. This difference of 30
per cent from the national average is
due primarily to the fact that 100 mem-
bers of the 107-member Board of Trus-
tees of the University of North Carolina
are elected by the state legislature.7
Omitting the Board of Trustees of the
University of North Carolina, we find
that 57 per cent of the members of the
remaining tvventy-one boards are ap-
pointed.
6 martorana & hollis, supra note 4, at
26.
7 In addition to the 100 elected members,
there is one ex officio member and six hon-
orary lifetime members. The Superintendent
of Public Instruction is made an ex efficio
trustee by N.C. gen. stat. § 116-4 (1966).
He has the privilege of voting and is
counted in establishing a quorum. The six
honorary lifetime members can be divided
into categories — former governors of the State
of North Carolina who are njade -trustees by
public law and individual citizens who have
been made trustees by joint resolution of the
General Assembly. N.C. gen. stat. §116-5
(1966), which makes former governors hon-
orary members of the Board of Trustees, con-
fers upon them the privilege of voting. The
joint resolutions that have named the second
category of lifetime members, makes no men-
tion of a voting privilege. They apparently
have none.
The current Governor is often mentioned as
an ex officio member of the board. Technical-
ly he is not. N.C. gen. stat. § 116-9 (1966)
authorizes him to "preside at all the meetings
of the board at which he may be present," but
it does not confer membership or a voting
privilege upon him. Presumably he would have
the right to vote in the event of a tie vote.
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