How did responsibilities of the Board of Trustees change under the reorganization plan?

How did responsibilities of the Board of Trustees change under the reorganization plan?

• A. They became independent from the central board
• B. Those boards derive their power from the central Board of Governors, whose members are elected by the General Assembly.
• C. They were dissolved and replaced by a statewide council
• D. They gained power to appoint the Governor

Answer: (B)

Centralized governance is the key idea here: under the reorganization plan, local Boards of Trustees no longer operate with independent authority. Their powers come from a central Board of Governors, which oversees campuses and sets statewide policy. That central board has members chosen by the General Assembly, linking campus governance to the legislative overseer. This arrangement explains why the trustees’ authority is described as deriving from the central Board of Governors rather than arising on their own. The other scenarios—the boards becoming independent from the central board, being dissolved into a statewide council, or the trustees gaining the power to appoint the Governor—did not occur, making the description of power derived from the central, Assembly-elected Board of Governors the correct interpretation.

Centralized governance is the key idea here: under the reorganization plan, local Boards of Trustees no longer operate with independent authority. Their powers come from a central Board of Governors, which oversees campuses and sets statewide policy. That central board has members chosen by the General Assembly, linking campus governance to the legislative overseer. This arrangement explains why the trustees’ authority is described as deriving from the central Board of Governors rather than arising on their own. The other scenarios—the boards becoming independent from the central board, being dissolved into a statewide council, or the trustees gaining the power to appoint the Governor—did not occur, making the description of power derived from the central, Assembly-elected Board of Governors the correct interpretation.