The Statewide Academic Senate and Local Academic Senates
One of the stylistic conventions of Academic Senate writing is to use a capital "s" when referring to the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and a lower case "s" when referring to the local academic senates at colleges and districts. Orthography aside, while there are clear corollaries between the roles and responsibilities of the Academic Senate and local academic senates, it may be less clear what the relationship is between the Academic Senate and an academic senate.