ACADEMIC SENATE COUNCILS

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The Academic Affairs Vice President serves as the ASUCI representative to a number of councils on the Academic Senate (not to be confused with the ASUCI Senate), a representative body composed of faculty elected from every school. Undergraduate student representatives to these councils are also supervised by the Academic Affairs Vice President per the ASUCI Constitution. These councils serve as avenues for student representatives to provide input on academic matters that appear before the Academic Senate. Every year, during the Summer and Fall, the Academic Affairs Vice President, along with the Joint Committee on Student Representatives, appoints a new wave of undergraduate students to serve on these councils! After the recruitment process, councils proceed to host meetings with faculty, staff, and administrators in order to define goals for the year and review any recommendations. Any undergraduate student is allowed to apply and serve as a student representative!

To find more information about each council, their purposes and objectives, the current student representatives, and more, please review the pages below.

Feel free to reach out to the Academic Affairs Vice President with any questions regarding the councils or applications at academicvp@asuci.uci.edu.

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  • Consider all matters related to academic policy, and make recommendations regarding curricula and programs and other educational matters, including general campus requirements and grading systems.
  • Provide guidance on all matters related to student learning assessment, including policy development around assessment of student learning at the classroom, course, program, general education, and institutional levels. 

  • Take final action on the approval, disapproval, modification, withdrawal, conduct, credit valuation and classification of courses and proposals to modify degrees.

  • Review and recommend to CEP action on proposals for new undergraduate requirements: majors, minors, school requirements and/or substantial revisions to undergraduate requirements, general education, honors programs, etc.
  • Review and recommend to CEP action on proposals for new or revised Change of Major criteria.

  • Make recommendations and approve policies on admissions, enrollments, enrollment management, and relations with schools to the administration and to the Academic Senate.

  • Assess policies and practices related to advancing equity, inclusion, and diversity at UCI.
  • Make recommendations to appropriate campus entities to advance UCI’s commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

  • Promote the welfare of the faculty in general. This is inclusive of issues pertaining to faculty salaries, benefits, insurance, retirement, housing, parking, University Community amenities, and conditions of employment.
  • Promote faculty diversity and equity in general, particularly amongst underrepresented faculty populations, including women and racial/ethnic minorities, as well as gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals, and individuals with disabilities.
  • Consider issues of academic freedom brought before the committee by individuals or other UC Committees and report findings and recommendations to the Division or to other committees for further action. Academic freedom includes, but is not necessarily limited to, free inquiry and exchange of ideas, the rights to present material relevant to a course of instruction, to publish or disseminate controversial material or information and to perform research in academic areas.

  • Advises on matters of planning, budget, and resource allocations on both short and long-term bases.
  • Serves as the Senate resource for administrative consultation on matters of: a) policy decisions relating to the solicitation, administration, and expenditure of non-federal extramural funds, b) setting of priorities in broad UCI fund-raising efforts, and c) planning, budgeting and allocating resources for promoting diversity among the faculty and other campus constituencies.

  • Advise on research policies, academic resources (including information technology), and library policies.
  • Administer general campus funds for faculty research and review and evaluate University-recognized research programs and units.

  • Consider policies and issues concerning the quality of teaching on campus, e.g., the improvement and evaluation of teaching and the role of teaching in academic advancement.
  • Consider and review formally as needed those programs of the Office of Student Affairs, the Graduate Division, and the Division of Undergraduate Education that affect the University experience of UCI students. Such programs include but are not limited to the Learning and Academic Resource Center, Student Success Initiatives, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Division of Career Pathways, Student Health Center, Counseling Center, Disability Services Center, Cross-Cultural Center, and the UCI Bookstore.

  • Recommend the awarding of scholarships according to the terms of the various conditions set forth and subject to such other conditions as the Irvine Divisional Senate Assembly may prescribe. In making its recommendations, the Board will take into account diversity.
  • Make recommendations regarding the policies of the University on scholarships, honors, and financial aid. In making its recommendations, the Board will take into account diversity.

  • Determine admission to the Collegium and the policies of admission, within adopted guidelines;
  • Certify graduation from the Collegium and determine policies relating to graduation;
  • Approve courses and instructors for lower- and upper-division courses in the Campuswide Honors Collegium curriculum, and determine the policies for same, within adopted guidelines;
  • Advise the chief administrator of the Campuswide Honors Collegium concerning the academic advising of students in the Collegium or enrolled in its courses, recruitment of such students, extracurricular opportunities and academic prerequisites (such as housing and library privileges) for Campuswide Honors Collegium students.

Credit: https://senate.uci.edu/uci-academic-senate-manual/