Alumni Elections include both the Brown Alumni Association elected officers and the Corporation's elected trustees.
These are hallmarks of Brown grads. That’s why thousands of you take part in the annual Alumni Elections:
Polls for 2025 elections are open now through May 2, 2025. Check your email inbox for a unique link to vote. If your ballot has not yet arrived, please email alumni-elections@brown.edu.
Alumni Elections include both the Brown Alumni Association's (BAA) elected officers and the Corporation's elected trustees. Which candidates appear on your ballot depends on where you are in the student-alumni journey—much as the candidates on your local and state ballots depend on where you live.
Who can vote in Brown Alumni Elections:
Held every year for Alumni Trustees. Held varying years dependent on vacancies for New Alumni Trustees.
One-third of Brown’s trustees take office through the Alumni Election, ensuring that a variety of alumni perspectives are represented in that body. Most trustees serve six-year terms.
In 2017, the Corporation designated two New Alumni Trustee positions for recent Brown graduates. Candidates are chosen to stand for election for this three-year position; the candidate with the most election votes becomes the next New Alumni Trustee.
Held every other year on odd numbered years.
The alumni body selects the BAA’s President-Elect, Secretary, and Treasurer through the Alumni Election. The previous President-Elect becomes President after a two-year term, for a total of four elected officers who lead the Board of Governors. When the President-Elect becomes the new President, they also begin a six-year term as a member of the Board of Trustees.