ACADEMIC SENATE: SAN DIEGO DIVISION

March 31, 2026

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

Representative Assembly Meeting April 7, 2026

Dear Colleagues:

The fifth Representative Assembly meeting of the 2025-26 academic year is scheduled for Tuesday, April 7 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 Director for Student Health and Well-Being Ed Junkins and Director of Strategic Planning, Innovation, and Research Dulce Amor L. Dorado will provide an update on the Triton Health and Wellness Building, and the following proposals will be considered:

  • Proposal to change the name of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences
  • Proposal to amend San Diego Divisional Senate Manual Appendix 2, UC San Diego Academic Integrity Policy
  • Proposal to transfer Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Graduate Programs from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry to the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
  • Proposal to establish an MS in Biology with a Specialization in Pathways to Health Professions

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, April 3. 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 April 7.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Jo Plant
Chair, Academic Senate, San Diego Division

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