mySenate is a web application used by faculty members to conduct official Academic Senate business, including:

• Communication with Academic Senate Councils and Committees
• Distribution of Council and Committee Agendas and Minutes
• Distribution of Council and Committee Discussion Items
• Application for Travel and Research Grants
• Participation in Divisional Ballots and Surveys
• Source for Senate News and Information

The mySenate application was initially launched in 2002 and is now at revision 3.0. The new version has been integrated with the main Academic Senate site in order to provide a more cohesive experience for our users.

Access to mySenate is authorized once your employment data is entered into the Payroll/Personnell System (PPS) by your departmental Management Services Officer (MSO). Your information is then synchronized with the UCSB Directory server overnight, and authorization is granted the following day by the Academic Senate Office. Once authorized, please use your UCSBnetID and UCSBnetPassword to log in. 

If you are a new employee at UCSB and you need to establish a UCSBnetID account, you will need a token. Please visit the IS&C Office in person, located in 4101 SAASB, to activate and pick up your token and receive additional instructions. Be sure to bring an official valid picture identification card (e.g. driver’s license).

Your UCSBnetID is your campus identifier. Your UCSBnetID and UCSBnetPassword combination provides a single set of campus credentials and authenticates you within various campus web applications. Individuals must still be granted authorization for specific campus web applications by the web applications administrator. (Even if you have successfully authenticated using your correct UCSBnetID and UCSBnetPassword, you may still not have authorization to access certain Academic Senate applications until you are authorized to do so by the Senate Administrator.)

Some of the campus web applications that authenticate using the UCSBnetID/UCSBnetPassword are:

• Academic Senate - mySenate
• Office of the Registrar - eGrades
• UCSB Directory
• UCSB Library Proxy Server
• UCSB Virtual Private Network (VPN) Service
• Oracle Calendar - Corporate Time

If you are a new employee at UCSB and you need to establish a UCSBnetID account, you will need a token. Please visit the IS&C Office in person, located in 4101 SAASB, to activate and pick up your new token and receive additional instructions. Be sure to bring an official valid picture identification card (e.g. driver’s license).

First, verify that your UCSBnetPassword does not work in other web applications - e.g. Office of the Registrar - eGrades

If your UCSBnetPassword still does not work, you will need to reset it using a token. Please visit the IS&C Office in person, located in 4101 SAASB, to activate and pick up your token and receive additional instructions. Be sure to bring an official valid picture identification card (e.g. driver’s license).

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