The Academic Senate is a full-University Senate which concerns itself with many needs of the University by developing policies and serving as a communications link between the faculty and the administration of the University. It includes not only faculty in its voting membership but also representatives from the staff, students, student services, and administration. The Senate meets twice a month during the academic year. There are five staff seats on the Academic Senate (one of which is held by the current Chair of Staff Council). The staff Academic Senators are elected at-large by the staff electorate, this year only for either a one year or two year term.
If you are interested in being a staff Academic Senator, please complete the Statement of Qualifications/Interest Form and return it to
Cynthia Riley, Nominating Committee, Staff Council.
To qualify, nominees must be full-time and permanent in any staff classification at CSULB. The candidates must receive a majority of the valid votes cast in order to be seated. Please indicate if you are interested in a one-year or two-year term. You must have your supervisor’s permission to serve.
Contact Cynthia Riley at criley@csulb.edu
The Academic Senate of California State University, Long Beach insures effective exercise of the rights, duties, privileges, and responsibilities of citizenship within the University and is the official representative body responsible to and acting for its constituents. As such, it is the mechanism for orderly participation in the protection of academic freedom, in policy formation, in collegial governance, in the application of "joint responsibility," and in defining the role and mission of the University. It upholds protects, and enhances all the traditional rights of faculty, staff, students, and administration. It formulates educational and academic personnel policies and participates in the resource planning process and in the determination of administrative regulations and practices. It reviews policies, practices, and procedures in matters of academic and professional concern and makes recommendations for implementing change. It acts as a consultative body to other constituencies on all matters it or the President deems pertinent to the welfare of the University. The Academic Senate structures itself to support the mission of the University and to achieve an optimal degree of communication and cooperation among the elements of the University.
