UCSA Information

GSA used to be a member of the University of California Student Association (UCSA), but has withdrawn from this organization as of November 1, 2007. The UCSA is the official representative of students to the UC Office of the President and UC Regents, but we feel that it has been an ineffective voice that is not representative of all graduate students.

• Email letters denying UC Davis GSA entrance to the July 2008 UCSA Congress UCSA July Congress #1.pdf and UCSA July Congress #2.pdf; we were not informed until the May 2009 UCSA Board meeting that the 2008 Congress Steering Committee decided to have the following qualifiers for attendance: 1) Dues paying GSA/AS could attend the entire congress (voting officers only), 2) Students from dues paying GSA/AS could attend the first two days of congress and 3) All sessions were CLOSED to non-dues/non-voting schools. This only meant UC Davis GSA/AS was completely excluded from attendence
  

• Letter of Withdrawal from UCSA: UCSA-GSAUCD withdrawal letter.doc (October 2007)
  

• Press Release regarding withdrawal from UCSA UCSA-GSAUCD withdrawal press release.doc
  

• Analysis of UCSA for GSA and ASUCD - a summary of UCSA's interaction with the Davis Campus over the last decade and beyond: UCSA analysis.doc

  Sources:
  

• Irvine AGS minutes regarding UCSA: AGS UCSA history.doc
  

• Irvine AGS Resolution on grad student representation in UCSA: AGS UCSA Resolution 07-12.doc
  

• ASUCD Resolution to dissociate from UCSA: ASUCD.SR.2.Fall.06.doc
  

• Editorial in The California Aggie
  

• UCSA Timeline: UCSA Timeline.doc
  

• GSA History Page
  

• Letter Objecting to UCSA Budget (June 2007): UCSA-UCDGSA Budget Letter.doc
  

• UCSA Website