AAC&U- Association of American Colleges and Universities

AASCU- American Association of State Colleges and Universities

BR – Biennial Review

CAS - College of Arts and Sciences

CC – Council of Chairpersons, or Chairs’ Council

AAC - The College of Arts and Sciences –Academic Affairs Committee

CAAC - Faculty Sentate Curriculum and Academic Affairs Committee

CIP - the State of Indiana’s List of Academic Degree Programs Inventory

See (web-site) http://www.che.state.in.us/degrees/

EOS - End of Semester

FAFSA – Federal Application for Federal Student Aid

FC – Faculty Council

FS – Faculty Senate

FTE--  Full time equivalent (can be used to refer to a student or to an employee)

FY – Fiscal Year

LEAP – Learn-Engage-Achieve-Persist (3-week summer invitation only, residential program to prepare for high school-to-college transition).

OTO – One Time Only Pay Authorization Form

NSSE—National Survey of Student Engagement (see website)  (Pronounced NESSIE)

http://www.iub.edu/~nsse/  Freshman and Seniors surveys are conducted. 

ISU data is compared with national data. http://irt2.indstate.edu/home/index.htm

OSPIRE—Office of Strategic Planning, Institutional Research and Testing

http://irt2.indstate.edu/home/index.htm

P&T – Promotion and Tenure

SCH – Student Contact Hour

SEM – Student Enrollment Management

TRR – Travel Reimbursement Request

FERPA – Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

ORR – Office of Registration and Records.

The link below is a great resource for all things Budget related:

Link for Controller’s Office Forms and Procedures:  http://www2.indstate.edu/controller/index-controller.htm

Updated July 2019