UC Academic Senate. San Diego Division Records, 1960-2025
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- UC Academic Senate. San Diego Division Records
- Dates:
- 1960-2025
- Creators:
- University of California (System). Academic Senate. San Diego Division
- Abstract:
- The UC Academic Senate, San Diego Division records includes correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, committee materials, subject files, and publications. The material pertains to admissions policy, campus and community environment, computer policy, faculty welfare, academic planning, research units, and budget issues.
- Extent:
- 19.85 Linear feet (50 archives boxes) and 1.74 GB of digital files
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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UC Academic Senate. San Diego Division Records, RSS 901. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The UC Academic Senate, San Diego Division Records document the Senate's participation in shared governance regarding educational functions of the university, including: admissions policy, campus and community environment, computer policy, faculty welfare, academic planning, research units, and budget issues. Contents include meeting minutes, agendas, committee materials, photographs of senate members, publications, Chair and Vice Chair's correspondence, subject files, and research unit materials.
The files are arranged in seven series: 1) MINUTES AND AGENDAS, 2) COMMITTEES, 3) PHOTOGRAPHS OF SENATE MEMBERS, and 4) PUBLICATIONS, 5) CORRESPONDENCE, 6) SUBJECT FILES, and 7) RESEARCH UNITS.
- Biographical / historical:
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The San Diego Division of the Academic Senate is a division of the systemwide Academic Senate of the University of California (UC). The UC Academic Senate directs the educational function of the university's governance, while also providing faculty advice to the Regents and the Administration. Senate members include all faculty in the professorial, in-residence, clinical, and lecturer with security of employment academic series. The President of the University, the Vice Presidents, the Chancellors, and the Vice Chancellors are also members of the Academic Senate.
In accordance with the Standing Orders of the Regents, the Academic Senate oversees the authorization and supervision of all courses and curricula, determination of admission and graduation requirements, and approval of all manuscripts published by the University of California Press. The Senate advises the University in the areas of faculty appointment and promotion, budget priority and policy, library policy, research policy, academic freedom, faculty privilege and tenure, faculty welfare, faculty and student affirmative action, campus planning, and computer policy. The Senate also participates in searches for deans, chancellors, and presidents.
Under the leadership of an elected chair, each campus division of the Academic Senate operates both as a legislative body and as a system of standing committees. While the San Diego Division functions primarily through its standing committees and elected officers, the Representative Assembly meets several times a year. Members of the Division include the President of the University, all Senate members whose headquarters are at San Diego, and emeritus Senate members whose headquarters were at San Diego when they retired.
During the University of California, San Diego's infancy, the emerging San Diego Division of the Academic Senate met jointly with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Staff Council between 1959 and 1961. The current roster of standing committees that address educational policy and the budget developed out of the joint meetings. The Academic Senate began meeting as an autonomous organization after May 1961.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-09-15 11:38:58 -0700 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Documents containing protected information are restricted for 50 years from the date of creation. Redacted versions are provided where possible. See the University Archivist for more information.
- Preferred citation:
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UC Academic Senate. San Diego Division Records, RSS 901. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
- Location of this collection:
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9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
- Contact:
- (858) 534-2533