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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: UC Academic Senate. San Diego Division Records
Creator:
University of California (System). Academic Senate. San Diego Division
Identifier/Call Number: RSS 0901
Physical Description:
19.85 Linear feet
(50 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1960-2009
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.
Languages:
English
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UC Academic Senate. San Diego Division Records, RSS 901. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
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.
The UC Academic Senate, San Diego Division records document the senate's governance over the educational functions of the
university, as it pertains to: 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
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of California (System). Academic Senate. San Diego Division -- Archives
University of California, San Diego -- History -- Archives
University of California, San Diego -- Administration
University of California, San Diego -- Faculty