Submit a Board of Trustee Nomination

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Timeline – Board of Trustees Nomination Process

• Oct. 6, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET— The nomination and endorsement period ends.
• Oct. 13, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. ET— All candidates must provide the required information for consideration to the Alumni Board.
• From late October to mid-December 2023 — The Trustee Election Committee of the Alumni Board and the executive director of Alumni and Career Services will conduct confidential due diligence on the nominees’ applications. The Alumni Board shall deliberate in confidence and select by a confidential majority vote the final slate of three alumni who will stand as candidates for election as a Trustee.
• By the end of January 2024 — Launch of secure electronic alumni voting on the three candidates, also through Colonnade Connections. No proxy voting is allowed. 
• At or before the February 2024 meeting of the Board of Trustees — The executive director of Alumni and Career Services John Jensen ’01 and 2023-2024 Alumni Association President Jane Ledlie Batcheller '03 '08L will review the voting results and communicate the winner to the secretary of the Board of Trustees and the chair of the Trusteeship Committee. The expectation is that the winner will be elected at that meeting.
• May 2024 meeting of the Board of Trustees — Alumni Board anticipates the new Trustee will take the oath to begin their term.

For more detailed information on the election process, please read the Alumni Association University Trustee Election Process.