Re#41: "If PSU is not public, please show us a private university in which the governor sits on the board and designates multiple trustees. "
"Currently, the board has sixty-four members: four ex officio members (the governor of the state, the president pro tem of the state senate, the speaker of the state assembly, and the president of the university); one life member (the eldest lineal descendent of Ezra Cornell); three members appointed by the governor; forty-three members-at-large, elected by the board, including two each from the fields of agriculture, business, and labor in New York State; eight members elected from and by the alumni of the university; two faculty members elected by the University Faculty; two students elected by the students of the university; and one nonacademic employee elected by the nonacademic employees of the university. "
https://blogs.cornell.edu/deanoffaculty/files/2015/12/GOVSTRUC-t1yj0f.pdf