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 |
| ARB |
Available Resource Basis |
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 |
Big 12 |
Athletic Conference but also used as a loose data sharing consortium |
BJE |
Budget Journal Entry |
BMPC |
Bulk Mail Processing Center |
BRD |
Business Research Division, Leeds School of Business |
BRS |
Billing & Receivable System |
BSA |
Black Student Alliance |
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: A Multicultural Center |
CAS |
Center for Aerospace Structure |
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 |
CMA |
Center for Multicultural Affairs |
COF |
College Opportunity Funds |
COPS |
Committee on Personal Safety |
CRCW |
Council of Research and Creative Work |
CS |
Career Services |
CSC |
Center for Space Construction |
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 |
| EC |
Expenditure Control |
| ECR |
Expenditure Control Rule |
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) |
ERC |
External Review Committee (PRP) |
ES |
Employment Services |
ESL |
English as a Second Language |
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. |
FY |
Fiscal Year (July through June) |
GAIR |
General Administrative and Infrastructure Recharge, formerly known as GAR/GIR |
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. |
GPTI |
Graduate Part-Time Instructor |
Greek |
Greek Liaison Office |
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 of Behavioral Genetics |
IBS |
Institute for 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 |
IN |
Interdepartmental Invoice |
INSTAAR |
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research |
INVST Program |
International and National Voluntary Service Training |
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 |
IT |
Information Technology |
ITC |
Information Technology Council (campus-wide committee) |
ITLL |
Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory |
ITP |
Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program |
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 |
LTSM |
Learning to Teach Secondary Math Project |
MAMTC |
Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center |
MAPS |
Minimum Academic Preparation Standards |
MASP |
Minority Arts and Sciences Program |
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 |
NHRAIC |
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center |
NonRes |
NR Non-Resident Student |
NROTC |
Naval Reserved Officers Training Corps |
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) |
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 |
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 |
SADC |
Student Affairs Diversity Committee (fka SAACD and DCC) |
SAFETeam |
Substance Abuse Free Environment Team |
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 |
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) |
SOFO |
Student Organizations Finance Office |
SPA |
Sponsored Programs Accounting |
SPB |
State Personnel Board |
SPO |
Standing Purchase Order |
SRA |
Salary Reduction Agreement |
SSC |
System Staff Council |
SSDAC |
Social Science Data Analysis Center |
SSEC |
Social Science Education Consortium, Inc. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
