GOVERNING BOARDS

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... Historically, the Board of Trustees was the governing body of the university from the time of its founding as Queen's College in 1766 until the university was reorganized under Chapter 61, Laws of 1956. The 1956 state law created a Board of Governors as the governing body of the university. It also provided for the continuation of the Board of Trustees in an advisory capacity, with certain fiduciary responsibilities over assets of the university in existence before 1956.