Boulder Campus Acronyms

2030	Flagship 2030 – Campus strategic plan
914 Broadway	The address of the Chancellor’s Office
AAC	Academic Advising Center
AAHE	American Association for Higher Education
AAI	Academic Access Institute
AAU	Association of American Universities
ABS	Accounting and Business Support
A-CARD	Acquisition Card
ACUC	Animal Care and Use Committee
ADA	Americans with Disabilities Act
AFROTC	Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
AFSCME	American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
AIA	American Indian Alliance
AISES	American Indian Science and Engineering Society
ALTEC	Anderson Language Technology Center
AP	Accounts Payable
APS	Administrative Policy Statement
ARC	Administrative and Research Center
AROTC	Army Reserved Officers Training Corps
ATLAS	Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society
AVC	Associate Vice Chancellor
AY	Academic Year (September through May)
BCPC	Boulder Campus Planning Commission
BCSC	Boulder Campus Staff Council
BFA	Boulder Faculty Assembly
BFALC	BFA Libraries Committee
BFIS	Boulder Friends of International Students
Big 12	Athletic Conference but also used as a loose data sharing consortium
BJE	Budget Journal Entry
BL3DEMC	Boulder Laboratory for 3D Electron Microscopy of Cells (fomerly HVEM - High Voltage Electron Microscopy)
BMPC	Bulk Mail Processing Center
BRD	Business Research Division, Leeds School of Business
BRS	Billing & Receivable System
BSA	Black Student Alliance
C2B2	Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels
CACMA	Chancellor’s Advisory Committee for Minority Affairs
CADS	Council of Associate Deans
CADSWES	Center for Advanced Decision Support for Water and Environmental Services
CAETE	Center for Advanced Engineering and Technology Education
CAFC	Coordinated Administrative Funding Committee (provides funding for student organizations)
CAPE	Colorado Association of Public Employees
CAPP	Center for Applied Parallel Processing
CAPRH	Council on Academic Programs in Residence Halls
CAPS	Counseling and Psychological Services
CAS	Center for Aerospace Structure
CAS	Center for Asian Studies
CASA	Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy
CAUP	College Associated University Press
CCAR	Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
CCHE	Colorado Commission on Higher Education
CCIS	Colorado Center for Information Storage
CCW	Chancellor’s Committee on Women
CEB	Cultural Events Board
CEC	Chancellor’s Executive Committee
CECC	Coors Events Conference Center
CEPS	Continuing Education and Professional Studies
CHA	Center for Humanities and the Arts
CIRES	Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.
CIRN	Critical Incidents Response Network
CITE	CU-Boulder Comprehensive Information Technology Environment, developed by the IT Council
CIW	Central Information Warehouse
CLEAR	Course Load Evaluation by Academic Rank
CLEAR	Center for Labor Education and Research
CLR	The Chancellor's Leadership Residential Academic Program
CLRAP	The Chancellor's Leadership Residential Academic Program
CMA	Center for Multicultural Affairs
CMEMS	Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
COF	College Opportunity Funds
COPS	Committee on Personal Safety
CRCW	Council of Research and Creative Work
CS	Career Services
CSC	Center for Space Construction
CSF	Colorado Shakespeare Festival
CSERA	Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in America
CSLU	Center for Spoken Language Understood
CSPV	Center for the Study of Prevention of Violence
CSU	Colorado State University
CTRC	Colorado Technical Reference Center (see Libraries)
CU	University of Colorado
CU Cares	Childcare Answers, Resources & Educational Services
CUCS	CU Conference Services
CUFLA	Colorado Universities Faculty Leaders Association
CUPA	CU Parents Association
CUPA	College & Universities Personnel Association
CUPD	University of Colorado Police Department
CU-BAB	University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics Board
CU-LEAD	CU Leadership, Excellence, Achievement, and Diversity Alliance and Scholarship Program
CUUF	Committee On Use Of University Facilities
DHR	Division of Human Resources (part of the Colorado DPA)
DISC	Demonstrations and Information
DPA	Colorado State Department of Personnel Administration
DPD	Discretionary Pay Differential
DPO	Dental Preferred Organization
DS	Disability Services
DSB	Distinguished Speakers Board
DSCC	Dennis Small Cultural Center
DSP	Diverse Scholars Program (Leeds)
ECON	Economics Department
ECU	Elevations Credit Union (formerly University of Colorado Federal Credit Union)
ED	Employee Development
EH&S	Environmental Health & Safety
EIS	Executive Information System
ELP	Emerging Leaders Program
EMT	Enrollment Management Team
EOB	Explanation of Benefits
EOT	End of Term
ePERs	Electronic Personnel Effort Reporting System (for OCG)
ELLC	Ethnic Living and Learning Community
ERC	Engineering Research Center
ERC	External Review Committee (PRP)
ES	Employment Services
ESL	English as a Second Language
ESLG	English as a Second Language for Degree Students
EVCAA	Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
ExCom	BFA Executive Committee
F&A	Facilities and Administrative Costs (same as ICR)
FacMan	Facilities Management
FCQ	Faculty Course Questionnaire
FERPA	Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act National legislation guaranteeing student access to records and privacy.
FHAP	Faculty Housing Assistance Program
FICA	Federal Insurance Compensation Act
FIS	Faculty Information System
FLSA	Fair Labor Standards Act
FMLA	Family Medical Leave Act
FOPPS	Fund/Organization/Program/Project/Subclass - This is the unique number for each "account" under PeopleSoft. The FOPPS is the long form of the "SpeedType."
Foundation	CU Foundation
FSAP	Faculty Staff Assistance Program (fka EAP Employee Assistance Program
FTE	Full-time Equivalency. Equal to 30 credit hours for an entire academic year for students.
FTEP	Faculty Teaching Excellence Program
FY	Fiscal Year (July through June)
GAIR	General Administrative and Infrastructure Recharge, formerly known as GAR/GIR
GBC	Global Business Communication
GIRs	General Institutional Requirements
GL	General Ledger
GLBT	Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender. Is used as an adjective, in regard to people, community, culture, etc., as well as in regard to the name of the Resource Center.
GOLD (UMC)	Gaining Opportunities through Leadership Development (aka CU-GOLD)
GPTI	Graduate Part-Time Instructor
Greek	Greek Liaison Office
GTP	Graduate Teacher Program
HC	Head Count
HMO	Health Maintenance Organization
HNRS	Honors Department
HR	Human Resources
HRC	Human Resources Council
HRKU	Human Resources Key Users
HRMS	Human Resources Management System (People Soft)
HROAG	Human Resources Operations Advisory Group
HRPG	Human Resource Policy Group
HSC	Health Sciences Center
HumResDB	Human Resources Data Base
IA	Institutional Analysis (part of Budget, Planning and Analysis)
IAC	Information Access Committee (BCSC committee)
IACUC	Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
IBG	Institutes for Behavioral Genetics
IBS	Institute of Behavioral Science
ICEED	International Research Center for Energy and Economic Development
ICR	Indirect Cost Recovery (same as F&A)
ICS	Institute for Cognitive Science
IEC	International English Center
IECE	Institute for Ethical and Civic Engagement
IEW	International Education Week
IN	Interdepartmental Invoice
INSTAAR	Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
INVST Program	International and National Voluntary Service Training
IP	Intellectual Property
IPM	Integrated Pest Management
IR	Institutional Research
IRC	Internal Review Committee (PRP)
IRM	Information Resource Management
IRM	Integrated Resource Management. System wide collection of budget and other resource information. Also called "URM".
IRMS	Integrated Resource Management System. See IRM.
ISC	Internal Service Center
ISSS	International Student and Scholar Services
IT	Information Technology
ITC	Information Technology Council (campus-wide committee)
ITLL	Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory
ITP	Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program
ITP	Interactive Theatre Project
ITS/TCS	Information Technology Services Previously CNS Services Center. Information Technology Services/Telecommunication Services.
JBC	Joint Budget Committee (of the state legislature)
JCEM	Joint Center for Energy Management
JE	Journal Entry
JILA	Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
L3D	Center for LifeLong Learning and Design
LASP	Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
LEAP	Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion
LSOB	Leeds School of Business
LTSM	Learning to Teach Secondary Math Project
MAMTC	Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center
MAPS	Minimum Academic Preparation Standards
MASP	Minority Arts and Sciences Program
MAST	Membrane Applied Science and Technology Center
MBSA	Multicultural Business Students Association
MDNC	Marion Downs National Center for Infant Hearing
MEASA	Middle Eastern and Arab Student Association
MEP	Minority Engineering Program(now SEED)
MOU	Memorandum of Understanding
MRS	Mountain Research Station
NASPA	National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, professional organization.
NCA	North Central Association
NCES	National Center for Education Statistics
NCHEMS	National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
NCWIT	National Center for Women and Information Technology (ATLAS)
NHRAIC	Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
NonRes	NR Non-Resident Student
NROTC	Naval Reserved Officers Training Corps
NSIDC	National Snow and Ice Data Center (CIRES)
OCSC	Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center
ODH	Office of Discrimination and Harassment
OED	Organizational and Employee Development
OEP	Officers and Exempt Professionals
OIE	Office of International Education, a Student Affairs unit (not to be confused with the International English Center)
OLR	Office of Labor Relations
OSPB	Office of State Planning and Budget (fka OSBC)
OSS	Office of Student Services (School of Education)
OTP	One Time Payment
PAC	Program Accessibility Committee
PAR	Payroll Audit Report
PAS	Property Accounting System
PBA	The Office of Planning, Budget and Analysis
PBS	Payroll and Benefits Services
PC	Program Council
PCD	Primary Care Dentist
PCDP	Pre-Collegiate Development Program
PCN	Personnel Change Notice
PCP	Primary Care Physician
PDQ	Position Description Questionnaire
PE	Professional Exempt Staff
PERA	Public Employees Retirement Association
PET	Payroll Expense Transfer
PF	Parents’ Fund, the Student Affairs fund for annual giving of private donations
PI	Principle Investigator (OCG)
PIE	Partners in Education and Pooled Investment Earnings
PLC	Presidents Leadership Class
PO	Purchase Order
PPL	Payroll & Personnel Liaisons
PPO	Preferred Provider Organization
PPP	Performance Pay Program
PRA	Professional Research Assistant
PRP	Program Review Process
PSC	Procurement Service Center (purchasing, accounts payable, travel)
PTS	Parking & Transportation Services
PTSP	President's Teaching Scholars Program
PV	Payment Voucher
PWR	Program in Writing and Rhetoric
QRC	Quick Reference Card (PSC and ABS)
QRMS	Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematical Skills
R&R	Renewal and Replacement (usually refers to Plant Fund speed types)
RA	Research Assistant. Research Associate. (Residence Halls "Resident Advisor")
RAP	Residential Academic Program
RAPB	Baker (was ERAP & RAPW)
RAPF	Farrand RAP
RAPK	RAP Kittredge
RAPS	Sewall RAP
Res/R	Resident Student
RFP	Request for Proposal
RM	Risk Management
RM/TAAC	Rocky Mountain Trade Adjustment Assistance Center
ROTC	Reserved Officers Training Corps
RRFF	Records and Registration Flat File
S&G	Silver & Gold Record
SA	Student Affairs
SAC	Study Abroad Committee
SADC	Student Affairs Diversity Committee  (fka SAACD and DCC)
SAFETeam	Substance Abuse Free Environment Team
SAP	Study Abroad Programs
SAR	Salary Adjustment Roster
SARN	Sexual Assault Response Network
SASA	South Asian Student Association
SASC	Student Academic Services Center
SASSC	System Administration Support Steering Program
SCAG	Strategic Capital Assessment Group
SCD	Selected Census Data
SCH	Student Credit Hours
SCORES	Student Conflict Resolution Service
SCOSA	Standing Committee on Substance Abuse
SCREPS	Staff Council Representatives Email list serve
SCRM	Standing Committee on Research Misconduct
SHIP	Smith Hall International Program
SIS	Student Information System (Source of student data)
SLC	Statewide Liaison Council for Classified Staff in Higher Education
SLHS	Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences (formerly CDSS)
SOE	School of Education
SOFO	Student Organizations Finance Office
SPA	Sponsored Programs Accounting
SPB	State Personnel Board
SPO	Standing Purchase Order
SRA	Salary Reduction Agreement
SRA	Sponsored Research Agreement
SSC	System Staff Council
SSDAC	Social Science Data Analysis Center
SSEC	Social Science Education Consortium, Inc.
SSEWA	South, Southeast, and West Asia Programs
SSI	Salary Survey Increase (Classified Staff)
ST	Speed Type
SWOT	Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Analysis (an assessment done for or by campus units)
SYS	University of Colorado System
SYSD	UMS mainframe connectivity
TA	Teaching Assistant or Travel Authorization
TAAC	Rocky Mountain Trade Adjustment Assistance Center (also RM/TAAC)
TABOR	Taxpayer Bill of Rights
TAM	Technology, Arts and Media Certificate Program
TC	Transportation Center (now called Transportation Services)
TCAC	Total Compensation Advisory Council (DPA)
TCS	Telecommunication Services
TCT	Total Compensation Team
TDA	Tax Deferred Annuity
TDD	Telephone Devices for the Deaf
TEA	Teaching East Asia Program
TEAML	Tundra Ecosystem Analysis and Mapping Laboratory
TIAA-CREF	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement Equities Fund
TQM	Total Quality Management
TRIO	Three federal grants administered through SASC: Colorado Upward Bound, the Academic Excellence Program, and the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program
TRM	Total Resource Management
TTO	Technology Transfer Office
TTY	Teletypewriter
TV	Travel Voucher
UAnet	University Affiliates physician network
UBAB	University Benefits Advisory Board
UCB	University of Colorado at Boulder
UCCS	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
UCD	University of Colorado at Denver
UCEC	University of Colorado Engineering Council
UCHSC	University of Colorado Health Science Center
UComm	University Communications
UCSC	University of Colorado Staff Council (5 Campus Staff Council)
UCSU	University of Colorado Student Union
ULDI	University Leadership Development Institute
UMAS	United Mexican American Students
UMC	University Memorial Center (The student union)
UMS	University Management Systems
UPC	University Press of Colorado
URM	University Risk Management
UROP	Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
VALIC	Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company
VCA	Vice Chancellor for Administration
VCAC	Vice Chancellor Advisory Committee
VCH	Volunteer Clearing House
VCSA	Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
WHC	Wardenburg Health Center (formerly WSHC, Wardenburg Student Health Center)
WICHE	Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education
WRC	Women's Resource Center

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