S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-40: Presidents of student bodies may be ex officio nonvoting members of boards of trustees.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law relating to the composition of the various boards of trustees of State-supported institutions of higher learning, the president of the student body of each of these institutions may be, ex officio, a nonvoting member of the board of trustees of the institution he attends and represents.

The term of office of the student body president shall be contemporaneous with his term as president.