a member of the Board of Regents of the University; there are eighteen Regents: three bishops, three presbyters, and six lay--twelve in all--elected directly by the Board of Trustees; there are also six other regents nominated by the Board of Regents and confirmed [not elected] by the Board of Trustees
A regent is a person who rules a country when the king or queen is unable to rule, for example because they are too young or too ill. someone who governs instead of a king or queen, because the king or queen is ill, absent, or still a child (present participle of regere )
It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also called the Pitt diamond), who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701
A prince who rules during the minority, absence, or incapacity of a sovereign. the son of the British king George III, who was also called George and acted as king from 1811 to 1820 because his father was mentally ill. This period of British history is called "the Regency". When George III died in 1820, the Prince Regent became King George IV