Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is the governing body of Guilford College . It is the responsibility of the Trustees to determine and periodically review the College's mission and purposes, to establish the general policies necessary to accomplish these goals, and to manage the business and affairs of the College. The responsibility for implementing these policies and for managing the College's business and affairs may be delegated to the Board's standing committees, or the President, and, through the President, to other members of the administration and faculty. The Board of Trustees has the authority to appoint and remove the President of the College and to approve institutional policies bearing on faculty appointment, promotion, tenure, and dismissal as well as personnel or anti-discrimination policies for other categories of employees. The Board of Trustees determines and sets the President's annual salary. The salary is reviewed annually by the Board, and may be increased at the sole discretion of the Board or its designees. Each year, the President informs the Board of salary and fringe benefit increases for Vice Presidents and Deans.

The Board of Trustees delegates much of its work to twelve standing committees: Academic Affairs; Advancement; Audit; Buildings and Grounds; Enrollment and Financial Aid; Executive; Finance; Investment; Planning; Quaker life; Student Affairs, and Trusteeship and Governance. The members of the standing and any ad hoc committees (with the exception of the executive committee) shall be members of the board and appointed by the chair of the board, with the concurrence of the board, at the annual or any regular meeting. In making appointments, the chair shall also designate the chair and vice-chair of each committee. The chair is expected to appoint committee officers and members so as to assure rotation, at reasonable intervals, of committee officers and committee members. The chair, with the concurrence of the board, may also designate non-trustee representatives to the committees, which representatives shall serve the committees in an advisory capacity only, and which representatives shall have no deliberation and decision making authority.

Only the Board of Trustees can adopt, amend, or repeal bylaws or the Charter, or review and approve proposed substantive changes in the College's degree programs and other major enterprises consistent with the College's mission, and financial resources.

The Board of Trustees uses the Quaker process of seeking the sense of the meeting in its business meetings.