The Governors State University Board of Trustees approved its consent agenda during a meeting June 16, 2025, and later approved three pulled resolutions — including two tenure items — after removing the student trustee from those votes.

Board members approved the consent agenda by voice vote. Trustees then returned to three items they had temporarily pulled from the consent agenda: resolutions 2524 and 2525 (tenure items) and resolution 2528 (a student‑trustee recognition). By statutory requirement, the student trustee did not participate in votes on tenure, and the board approved the tenure resolutions without that vote.

The action began when the board’s chair explained that, based on statutory requirements, “the student trustee cannot vote on tenure.” The chair and trustees then separated those items from the larger consent package, voted on the remainder of the consent agenda, and later took the three pulled resolutions up as a short separate vote. Trustees indicated approval by voice; no roll‑call tally was recorded in the public portion of the transcript.

The board’s treatment of the tenure items was framed as a procedural compliance step — removing votes on tenure from the student trustee’s responsibilities — rather than a substantive change to the recommendations under consideration. The chair instructed staff to reintroduce the pulled items and proceed without the student trustee participating.

The meeting record shows the consent agenda included the Board of Trustees agenda as presented, minutes from the April 24, 2025 meeting, and the resolutions referenced above. The board approved the consent agenda and subsequently approved the three pulled resolutions in a separate voice vote.