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Navigating UC San Diego can be a challenging task. Trying to find one's way around campus, around San Diego, or sometimes just looking for the right office to ask often requires helpful sign posts. We hope that on these Resource pages assist your discovery of some good first steps.
Processes and Forms
How to apply for a Dean’s Certification
Many graduate schools as well as professional organizations require a Dean’s Certification to check your disciplinary records as well as your academic disciplinary history. Completion of a Dean’s Certification form involves a check of your disciplinary records as well as your academic disciplinary history. Please complete the personal information section the institution requires from you. To make every effort to process your forms quickly, follow the steps below and please plan ahead.
You will first need to obtain the Dean’s Certification form from the school to which you are applying. Please send the Dean’s Certification form, addressed stamped envelope and a completed cover letter which includes the following:
- Your first and last name
- Your UCSD Personal Identification Number (Student PID)
- Approximate dates of attendance at UCSD
- A daytime phone number or email address where you can be reached
- Name and address of school for which the form is being completed
- Your signature on the cover letter as well as the Dean’s Certification form
- Instructions regarding how you would like us to handle the form when completed
Some institutions require that the Dean’s Certification form be sent directly to them as other institutions prefer that this form be sent back to you to mail in with the remaining application materials. All forms will be sealed in an envelope with a stamp/signature on the back. Your Dean’s Certification will be processed within 7-10 business days from the date the request is received.
Submitting Multiple Requests
If you are submitting forms for multiple schools, it is not necessary to include a cover letter for each. Please simply list the names and addresses of the schools and provide instructions for each on a single cover letter, if possible.
Send Dean’s Certification and Cover Letter to:
University of California, San Diego
Thurgood Marshall College, Student Affairs
9500 Gilman Drive #0509
La Jolla, CA 92093-0509
Questions? Please contact the TMC Student Affairs Office at 858-534-4390 or email jlsnow@ucsd.edu
Welcome to the World of Finances at TMC Student Affairs
You will be using the TMC Pre-Authorization Form if you need to pay for any event put on by your student organization. To make every effort to process your purchase orders or reimbursements quickly, please complete all the necessary sections of the form.
Below are a few steps that will help navigate you through the process of managing finances for your student organization.
How to process the TMC Pre-Authorization Form
- Talk to your advisor about your plans to spend money
- Talk to the vendor about the payment or purchase the items with your own money
- Complete the TMC Pre-authorization form found on this website
- Attach all original receipts and a copy of each receipt (make additional copies for your reference)
- Bring all documents to Jennifer Snow’s office (room 102) and fill out the purple clip board located on the filing cabinet.
- Wait 2-3 weeks to receive your reimbursement check!
Quick Tips
- If you have multiple receipts for one event you only need to complete one form
- Never leave the forms or receipts in Jennifer’s mailbox as it has your personal information on the form!
- Talk to Jennifer about receiving Direct Deposit
Questions? Please contact the TMC Student Affairs Office at 858-534-4390 or email jlsnow@ucsd.edu
This resource page is a work in progress as we seek to identify and remedy student needs. If you are not finding that which you seek or know a resource we should consider posting, please email us at
tmcstudentaffairs@ucsd.edu
