ACADEMIC SENATE: SAN DIEGO DIVISION

October 14, 2025

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MEMBERS OF THE REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY
MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE, SAN DIEGO DIVISION

October 21, 2025 Representative Assembly Meeting

Dear Colleagues:

The first Representative Assembly meeting of the 2025-26 academic year is scheduled for Tuesday, October 21 at 3:45 p.m., in the Garren Auditorium of the Biomedical Sciences Building (1st floor).

All Senate members are welcome to attend. If you are a Senate member who is not an Assembly Representative and you plan to attend the meeting, it would be appreciated if you would please RSVP to the Academic Senate Office at academicsenateoffice@ucsd.edu. We ask meeting participants to arrive at 3:30 so we may begin promptly at 3:45.

The Notice of Meeting (agenda) and all pertinent documents are available on the following webpages.

  1. On the Senate’s homepage under Assembly/Council Meetings, on the lower right side of the page.  http://senate.ucsd.edu
  2. On the Representative Assembly-Schedule page.
    http://senate.ucsd.edu/committees/representative-assembly/schedule

Executive Vice Chancellor Elizabeth Simmons will address the Assembly and Interim Vice Chancellor-CFO Maureen Harrigan and Associate Vice Chancellor of Budget & Financial Analysis Mercedes Muñoz will provide an overview of the budget. In addition, the following proposals will be considered:

  • Proposal to discontinue the contiguous B.S./M.S. degree in Physics with a Specialization in Materials Physics
  • Proposal to establish a Master of Design (M.Des) degree
  • Proposal to establish an M.S. degree specialization in Life Sciences Research and Technology
  • Proposal to establish a five-year B.A./M.A. degree in Latin American Studies
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Regulation 502, Grade Appeals
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Regulation 500, Grade and Grade Points
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 235, Research
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 241, Senate Awards
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Senate Manual Appendix 5.7, Bylaws of the Faculty of the School of Medicine
  • Proposed to amend San Diego Divisional Senate Manual Appendix 5.8, Bylaws of the Health Sciences Faculty

I ask that you please review the meeting materials in advance of the meeting and send questions to academicsenateoffice@ucsd.edu with the agenda topic number in the subject line of the email, by noon on Friday, October 17. Your questions will be shared with the presenters so that they may be prepared to discuss them in advance.

Primary Representatives and Alternate Representatives should coordinate their attendance and voting for this meeting. Both may attend; however, Alternate Representatives may only vote in the absence of the Primary Representative. Please coordinate who will attend and cast votes, in advance of the meeting. Your participation matters. I look forward to seeing you on October 21.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Jo Plant
Chair
Academic Senate, San Diego Division

University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093