Board of Trustees bylaws provide for Student Charter Trustee members.  Bylaw I.2.D. establishes criteria for the election of student Trustees:

Twenty-eight charter Trustees, of whom at least three shall be women, [shall be] elected by the Board of Trustees.  Commencing with the charter Trustee election of 1991 and continuing biannually thereafter, with the final total of three being reached in 1995, three of the charter Trustees shall be initially elected as undergraduate students entering their junior year at the University following completion of a minimum of two full years of study at the University.  Efforts will be made to the extent possible to diversify representation among the three Rutgers campuses in the selection of the student charter Trustees.  Commencing in 1995, at least one of the three student charter Trustee seats shall be occupied by a student from Camden or Newark campuses.  If a student charter Trustee resigns during his or her term of office, the vacancy shall be filled by an undergraduate student entering his or her junior year at the University following the completion of a minimum of two full years of study at the University.

Bylaw IV.1.A.2.(a) states that the Nominating Committee of the Board of Trustees shall select one candidate to place before the Board from among at least three students recommended by the University Senate.  The six-year term of the next student charter Trustee will run through June 30, 2009.

The Student Affairs Committee will review all complete submissions for evidence of public service to the University and community.  The Student Affairs Committee will then forward at least three of the submissions to the Senate Executive Committee for final review and transmission to the Nominating Committee of the Board of Trustees.