Academic Senate

Governance & Mission

“The Legislature recognizes that joint decision-making and consultation between administration and faculty or academic employees is the long-accepted manner of governing institutions of higher learning and is essential to the performance of the educational mission of such institutions and declares that it is the purpose of this act to both preserve and encourage that process...” The Legislature promotes joint decision-making, robust consultation, and “the full exercise of the functions of the faculty in any shared governance mechanisms or practices” Taken From: The California Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA) Section 3561(b).

“Because the university's curriculum is of central concern to the faculty and because faculty have the primary responsibility in curricular decisions, it follows that faculty should have the major voice in academic policy decisions which closely affect the curriculum, access to the curriculum, or the quality of the curriculum.” Collegiality in the California State University System Academic Senate of the CSU (1985).


CSUDH Academic Senate Contact Information

Academic Senate

1000 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747

Welch Hall 420 -- Office Phone: (310) 243-3312

Senate Main Email: academicsenate@csudh.edu 


Meeting Schedule

CSUDH Academic Senate

Academic Senate Meetings

AY 25-26


Fall 2025

Meeting

Date

Room

Time

General Faculty Meeting

Monday, August 18

LSU

8:30am-10am

Retreat - Senators only

August 20

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

September 3

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate 

September 17

CCPE Building 

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

October 1

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

October 15

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

October 29

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

November 12

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

December 3

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

Spring 2025

Meeting

Date

Room

Time

Retreat- Senators Only

January 21

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

February 4

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

February 18

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

March 4

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

March 18

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

April 8

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

April 22

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm

General Senate

May 6

I&I 1300

2:30pm-5pm