Acronyms, Abbreviations and Common Terms | Office of Information Management & Analysis

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12th Class Day - The official census date for counting enrollment, semester credit hours, etc. for reporting to the Coordinating Board; used to determine funding; reported as ISDA12

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AACRAO - American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers

AASCU-NASULGC - American Association of State Colleges and Universities/National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

AAU - American Association of Universities; an organization of about 60 major research institutions

AAUDE - American Association of Universities Data Exchange; a voluntary organization of about 60 major research institutions who exchange data in a number of areas; some data reported anonymously

AAUP - American Association of University Professors

AIR - Association for Institutional Research; the professional organization for institutional researchers; national and international members; annual meeting in the spring

AMP - Alliance for Minority Participation

AUF - Available University Fund

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Big 12 Institutions - Baylor, Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A & M, Texas Tech

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CBM (004, 006, 009, etc.) - A series of reports submitting data to the Coordinating Board

CCYYS - The five digit designation for century, year and semester, where the CC is the first two digits of the century, YY is the last two digits of the year and the S is the semester (9 = Fall, 2 = Spring, 6 = Summer; from the month when the semesters used to start); Fall 2005 = 20059

CDS - The Common Data Set (CDS) is a set of standard data and definitions created through the collaborative effort of data providers in the higher education community and survey publishers, such as the College Board, Peterson's, and U.S. News & World Report

CIP - Classification of Instructional Programs; federal designation of all academic programs/majors, in form of six-digit codes

Cohort - A group of students that are followed throughout their academic careers, with the original number always remaining the same

CSRDE - Consortium for the Study of Retention Data Exchange

CUPA - College and University Personnel Association

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EEOC - Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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Faculty Salary Analysis - Yearly (Fall) report of budgeted faculty salaries

FICE - Federal Interagency Commission on Education (UT Austin's code is 003658)

FSSE – Faculty Survey of Student Engagement – survey of students’ involvement with the institution from the faculty member’s perspective

FTE - Full Time Equivalent (as compared to headcount)

FTIC - First Time in College

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HRIS - Human Resources Information System

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ICLM - Induced Course Load Matrix; mechanism for tracking courses taught to majors and to students outside of the major

IPEDS - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System; vehicle for reporting data to the U.S. Department of Education; reports include Institutional Characteristics, Fall Enrollment, Completions, Finance Survey, Fall Staff Survey, etc.

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JAD - Joint Application Development

JCL - Job Control Language

LAR - Legislature Appropriations Request

LBB - Legislative Budget Board

Matriculate - To enroll at a college or university

MOA - Mode of Admission

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NACUBO - National Association of College and University Business Officers

National Comparison Group - Group of 11 institutions that UT Austin considers peers and compares itself to; UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio State, Washington, Wisconsin; some data reported anonymously

NCAA - National Collegiate Athletic Association

NCES - National Center for Education Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Education

NCHEMS - National Center for Higher Education Management Systems

NSF - National Science Foundation

NSSE – National Assessment of Student Engagement – survey of students’ involvement with the institution

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OIR - Office of Institutional Research (a former name for the UT Austin Office of Information Management and Analysis; previous names also included Office of Institutional Studies)

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PAR - Prior Approval Requests

PUF - Permanent University Fund

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SACS-COC - Southern Association of Colleges and Schools-Commission on Colleges; the organization that provides the accreditation for UT Austin

SAIR - Southern Association for Institutional Research; the professional organizationforinstitutional researchers in the Southern U.S. (Virginia to Florida to Texas); annualmeeting in the fall)

SCH - Semester Credit Hour

SCUP - Society for College and University Planning

SEM - Science, Engineering, Mathematics, used for AMP reporting, also seen as STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

SREB - Southern Regional Educational Board

Student Flow - Mechanism to track students by cohorts throughout their academic careers, determines the number/percent that left The University (attrition rate- dismissed for academic reasons or dropped out), are continuing, or have graduated

Student Right to Know Act - Federal legislation under which institutions of highereducation are required to report graduation data

SUG - Southern University Group; invitation only group of approximately 25 largeinstitutions in the South that voluntarily exchange data

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TAIR - Texas Association for Institutional Research; the professional organization for institutional researchers in Texas; annual meeting in February

TEOP - Texas Educational Opportunity Program

THECB (CB) - Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; state agency responsible for collecting and reporting data on Texas all higher education institutions (two-year andfour-year, public and private, academic and health science centers)

TLC - Teaching Load Credit

TQM - Total Quality Management

Trend Analysis - Method of analyzing information for the purpose of identifying trends or patterns.