University of California Academic Senate. San Diego Division records, 1963-1994 (RSS 901)

The San Diego Division of the Academic Senate is a division of the systemwide Academic Senate of the University of California. The Academic Senate of the University of California 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.

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, its 86-member legislative body, the Representative Assembly, meets six to eight times throughout the 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.

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