ACADEMIC SENATE: SAN DIEGO DIVISION

November 10, 2025

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

November 18, 2025 Representative Assembly Meeting

Dear Colleagues:

The second Representative Assembly meeting of the 2025-26 academic year is scheduled for Tuesday, November 18 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 the Academic Senate’s Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction Chair Steven Constable will provide an overview of the Academic Senate. In addition, the following will be considered:

  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 241, Senate Awards
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 235, Research
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaws 242, Senate Council and 244, Senate Administration Council
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 115, Elections and Mail Ballots
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 177, Diversity and Equity
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Senate Manual Appendix 5.6, Bylaws of the Faculty of Sixth College
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Regulation 615, Academic Requirements of Thurgood Marshall College

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, November 14. 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 November 18.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Jo Plant
Chair
Academic Senate, San Diego Division

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