ACADEMIC SENATE: SAN DIEGO DIVISION

January 6, 2026

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

Representative Assembly Meeting January 13, 2026

Dear Colleagues:

The third Representative Assembly meeting of the 2025-26 academic year is scheduled for Tuesday, January 13 at 3:30 p.m., in the Liebow Auditorium of the Biomedical Sciences Building (2nd 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 3:15 so we may begin promptly at 3:30.

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 I will provide an update on 2025-26 Senate priorities. In addition, the following will be considered:

  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Regulation 502, Grade Appeals
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Regulation 500, Grading Policy
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Senate Manual Appendix 2, UC San Diego Academic Integrity Policy
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Regulation 600, Campuswide Graduation Requirements
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Regulation 702, Requirements for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 187, Committee on Campus Climate Change
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 192, Academic Information Technology
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Bylaw 190, Campus and Community Environment

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, January 9. 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 January 13.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Jo Plant
Chair, Academic Senate, San Diego Division

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