110 ILCS 680/25-15
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 110 - HIGHER EDUCATION|110 ILCS 680/ - Northeastern Illinois University Law.|Article 25

Sec. 25-15. Membership; terms; vacancies.   The Board shall consist of 9  voting members who are residents of this State and are appointed by the  Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and one voting  member who is a student at Northeastern Illinois University.  The student  member shall be elected by a campus-wide election of all students of the  University.  The student member shall serve a term of one year  beginning on  July 1 of each year, except that the student member initially selected  under  this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly shall serve a term beginning  on the date of his or her selection and expiring on the next succeeding June  30.  A student member may serve only for one term.  To be eligible to  remain as a student member of the Board, the student  member must be a resident of this State, must have and maintain a grade point  average that is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must be a full  time student enrolled at all times during his or her term of  office except for that part of the term which follows the completion of the  last full regular semester of an academic year and precedes the first full  regular semester of the succeeding academic year at the university (sometimes  commonly referred to as the summer session or summer school).  If a student  member serving on the Board fails to continue to meet or maintain the  residency, minimum grade point average, or enrollment requirement established  by this Section, his or her membership on the Board shall be deemed to have  terminated by operation of law.  If any member of the Board appointed by the  Governor fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency requirement  established by this Section, he or she shall resign membership on the Board  within 30 days thereafter and, failing submission of this resignation, his or  her membership on the Board shall be deemed to have terminated by operation of  law.  Of the members first appointed by the Governor, 4 shall be appointed for  terms to expire on the third Monday in January, 1999 and until their successors  are appointed and qualified, and 3 shall be appointed for terms to expire on  the third Monday in January, 2001 and until their successors are appointed and  qualified.  The 2 additional members appointed by the Governor, by and with the  advice and consent of the Senate, under this amendatory Act of the 91st General  Assembly, shall not be from the same political party and shall be appointed for  terms to expire on the third Monday in January, 2003 and until their successors  are appointed and qualified.  Any vacancy in membership existing on January 1,  1999 shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, with the advice and  consent of the Senate, for a term to expire on the third Monday in January,  2003.  If the Senate is not in session on the effective date of this Article,  or if a vacancy in an appointive membership occurs at a time when the Senate  is not in session, the Governor shall make temporary appointments to fill the  vacancy.  Members with these temporary appointments shall be deemed qualified  to serve upon appointment and shall continue to serve until the next meeting of  the Senate when the Governor shall appoint persons to fill such memberships,  by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the remainder of their  respective terms.  No more than 5 of the members appointed by the Governor  shall be affiliated with the same political party.  Each member appointed by  the Governor must be a resident of this State.  A failure to meet or maintain  this residency requirement constitutes a resignation from and creates a vacancy  in the Board.  Upon the expiration of the terms of members appointed by the  Governor for other than temporary appointments, their respective successors  shall be appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms  of 6 years from the third Monday in January of each odd-numbered year.   Any  members appointed to the Board shall continue to serve in such capacity until  their successors are appointed and qualified.         (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 93-628, eff. 12-23-03.)