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A

 
AARDB
Annual Admissions reporting Database.

ACASM
Association of Central Administrative System Managers (A U of MN internal group).

ACD
Automatic Call Distribution.

ADCS
Academic and Distributed Computing Services (U of MN).

ADM
Admissions IMS System.

AHC
Academic Health Center (U of MN).

AHPCRC
Army High Performance Computing Research Center (U of MN).

AIS
Administrative Information Systems. A former unit of the University providing mainframe programming and processing for the University's major administrative processes. AIS staff and functions have been reorganized as the Central Computing Operations (CCO) and Integrated Systems Solutions (ISS) units under the direction of the Office of Information Technology (OIT).

ANSI
American National Standards Institute.

API
Application Program Interface.

APPLTRK
Applicant Tracking IMS System (U of MN).

APSO
Academic Personnel Reporting Database (U of MN).

ARA
Appletalk Remote Access.

ARP
Address Resolution Protocol.

AS
Applications Systems.

ASE
Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (U of MN).

ASAP
As Soon As Possible.

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode.

AUI
Attachment Unit Interface.

 

B

 
BASIC
Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

BASIS
Business and Student Information Services (BASIS). A former unit of the University which provided mainframe programming and processing for the University's major administrative processes. BASIS staff and functions have been reorganized as the Central Computing Operations (CCO) and Integrated Systems Solutions (ISS) units under the direction of the Office of Information Technology.

BBS
Bulletin Board System.

BC or Bcc
Blind Copy or Blind carbon copy (e-mail).

BIN
Bachelor of Information Networking (degree).

BIOS
Basic Input/Output System.

BIT
BInary digiT.

BITNET
Because It's Time NETwork.

BOOTP
Bootstrap Protocol.

BPR
(Business Process Redesign.) Standardized methodology that uses key milestones and activities for key functional business processes at a high level for re-engineered processes.

BPS
Bits Per Second.

BRI
Basic Rate Interface.

BTW
By The Way (e-mail).

BU
Bargaining Unit.

 

C

 
CAC
Customer Assistance Center (U of MN).

CAFE
Common Application and File Service Environment (U of MN).

CALA
College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (U of MN).

CARLA
Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (U of MN).

CBS
College of Biological Sciences (U of MN).

CC
Carbon Copy (e-mail).

CCITT
Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy.

CCO
(Central Computing Operations.) CCO provides the University's centralized information management systems and services, supporting both administrative and academic computing, under the direction of the Office of Information Technology.

CCO-CAC
Central Computing Operations - Customer Assistance Center.

CD-ROM
Compact Disk-Read Only Memory.

CDTL
Center for the Development of Technological Leadership (U of MN).

CFR
Code of Federal Regulations

CGI
Common Gateway Interface.

CIC
Committee on Institutional Cooperation ("Big 10" + U of Chicago).

CICLTI
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Learning Technology Initiative.

CICNet
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Network.

CICS
Customer Information Control System.

CIO
Chief Information Officer.

CIR
Committed Information Rate.

CIS
Computer and Information Systems (U of MN).

CLA
College of Liberal Arts (U of MN).

CLRDB
Class List Reporting Database (U of MN).

CMOS
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor.

CNA
Certified Netware Administrator.

CNE
Certified Netware Engineer.

CNI
Coalition for Networked Information.

CNR
College of Natural Resources (U of MN).

COA
Chart Of Accounts

COAFES
College of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Sciences (U of MN).

COBOL
Common Business Oriented Language.

COE
Cost of Education.

COGS
Council of Graduate Students (U of MN).

CPS
Characters Per Second.

CP(S)
Central Processing (System).

CP(S)
Central Processing (System).

CR
Cash Receipts Voucher.

CRC
Cyclic Redundancy Code.

CREN
Corporation for Research and Education Networking.

CS
Client Server, or Computer Science, or Civil Service.

CSM
Conversational Monitor System.

CSOM
Carlson School of Management (U of MN).

CSS
College Scholarship Service.

CUFS
College University Financial System (CUFS); The U of MN's financial management system.

CUFSRDB
CUFS Reporting Database (U of MN).

 

D

 
DA
Division Administrator.

DASD
Direct Access Storage Device.

DB2
IBM's Database 2.

DC
Direct Costs.

DCE
Data Communications Equipment.

DD
Distribution Document.

DDE
Dynamic Data Exchange and Direct Document Entry.

DEBCP
(Designated Employee Benefits Contact Person.) Departmental staff person who can answer basic benefit questions from staff. The Designated Employee Benefits Contact Person also attends an annual meeting for the latest benefit information and distributes benefit enrollment materials.

DEHS
Dept of Environmental Health & Safety.

DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

DIA
Department Internet Access (NTS).

DIMM
Dual inline memory module.

DMA
Direct Memory Access.

DMC
Digital Media Center (U of MN).

DMS
Donor Management System.

DNS
Device Name Service and Domain Name Server.

DOS
Disk Operating System.

DRAM
Dynamic Random Access Memory.

DRP
Daily Payroll Report (U of MN).

DTE
Data Terminal Equipment.

DVD
Digital Versatile Disk and Digital Video Disk.

 

E

 
EAPP
Electronic Application. (Duplicate Student Academic Record request.)

EB
Expense Budget (set-up).

ECNE
Enterprise Certified Netware Engineer.

EDE
Electronic Data Exchange.

EDI
Electronic Data Interchange.

EE
Employee paid contribution.

EEO-6 Reporting
Ethnicity reporting of hires performed by higher education institutions.

EFC
Expected Family Contribution.

EFT
Electronic Fund Transfer.

EGMS
Electronic Grants Management System.

ELAN
ATM Emulated LAN.

EMPLID
Student or employee ID; in PeopleSoft, EMPLID for students is their current file number.

EPPD
Electronic Pell Payment Data.

EPPPD
Electronic Pell Payment Processor Data.

ER
Employer paid contribution.

ESOA
Electronic Statement of Accounts.

ET
Expense Budget Transfer

 

F

 
FAA
Financial Aid Administrator.

F&A
Facilities & Administration (also referred to as IDC).

FAFSA
Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The standard federal financial aid form required by Universities for all financial aid requests.

FAN
Financial Aid Notification Letter. Official notice of student's financial aid award.

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions.

FARDB
Financial Aid Reporting Database (U of MN).

FCC
Faculty Consultative Committee (U of MN).

FDDI
Fiber Distributed Data Interface.

FERPA
Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Federal legislation that governs access to student information. See also MN Data Practices Act.

FFEL
Federal Family Education Loan.

FFN
Financial FormsNirvana

FGMP
Focused Grants Management Group

FICA
Federal Income Compensation Act.

FLSA
Fair Labor Standards Act. Federal law governing work rules for employees. Primarily concerned with the payment of overtime.

FM
Federal Methodology.

FMLA
Family Medical Leave Act

F & O
Finance and Operations.

FOB
Freight On Board.

FORTRAN
FORmula TRANslator.

FNA
FormsNirvana Access.

FNAR
Financial Need Analysis Report.

FND
FormsNirvana Division Maintenance.

FNN
FormsNirvana New Division.

FOB
Freight on Board or Free on Board. A shipping term used to indicate where ownership (title) of a product transfers from the vendor to the buyer. The choice is either "destination" or "origin".

FRP
Facility Retirement Planning.

FRW
Financial Reports on the Web

FSS
Financial Systems Support

FTE
Full-time equivalent employee. For example, if you have three full-time employees and one employee who works 50% time, you have three-and-a-half FTEs. FTE does NOT usually reflect actual employee headcount, nor does it represent a standard amount of work performed in a defined period (i.e., 2080 hours in a year).

FTP
File Transfer Protocol.

FY
Any 12-month period for which institution monitors its annual accountability. At the University, this period is July 1 - June 30.

FYI
For Your Information (e-mail).

 

G

 
GAPSA
Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (U of MN).

GAT
Global Access Table.

GC
General College (U of MN).

GDES
Grant Description Table.

GIF
Graphics Interchange Format.

GIS
Geographic(al) Information Systems.

GMAT
Graduate Management Admissions Test. A standard admissions test for graduate schools similar to the undergraduate SAT.

GMG
Grants Management Group.

GPA
Grade Point Average. The average value of a student's grades. A grade point average is calculated according to a scale, such as a "4 point scale", in which a numeric value is assigned to each letter grade. The average is computed from the numeric values.

GRAD/GSRDB
Graduate School Reporting Database (U of MN).

GRE
Graduate Record Exam. The general admissions test required by most graduate schools. Students may be required to take additional GRE tests in their field of study or other tests such as the GMAT.

GSUM
Grants Summary table.

GUI
Graphical User Interface.

 

H

 
HERDB
Historical Earnings Reporting Database (U of MN).

HESO
Higher Education Services Office (state of MN).

HETTRN
The PeopleSoft training database.

HR
Human Resources

HRIS
Human Resources Information System; the current system which will be replaced by PeopleSoft.

HRMS
Human Resource Management System.

HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language.

HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

HTTPS
HyperText Transfer Protocol; used for sending and receiving information between World Wide Web clients and servers.

 

I

 
I-9
Employment Eligibility Verification.

IAFHE
Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, and Human Ecology (no longer exists)

IAT
Institute for Academic Technology.

IBC
Institutional Biosafety Committee.

IDC
Indirect Costs.

IDEA
Institutional Data Easy Access. IDEA is a version of the OIT Data Warehouse, a collection of databases in a client/server environment. It is designed for easy acess and customized reporting of information crucial to the University's business needs.

IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force.

IISAC
Intergovernmental Information Systems Advisory Council (State of MN).

ILOC
Institutional Location Code.

IM
Institutional Methodology.

IMHO
In My Humble Opinion (e-mail).

IMS/VS
Information Management System/Virtual Storage.

INAS
Institutional Needs Analysis System.

INFORMnS
Internet for Minnesota Schools.

INVENRDB
Inventory Reporting Database (U of MN).

IP
Internet Protocol.

IPAS
Institutional Prior Approval System

IPO
Information Policy Office (State of MN).

IPX
Internet Packet Exchange. IPX is used by Novell to provide internetworking support.

IRB
Institutional Review Board (for human subjects research)

IRC
Internet Relay Chat.

IRQ
Interrupt ReQuest.

IRS
Internal Revenue Service.

ISDN
Integrated Services Digital Network.

ISIR
Institutional Student Record Information.

ISO
International Standards Organization and Internal Service Organization

ISP
Internet Service Provider.

ISPF
Interactive System Productivity Facility.

ISS
Integrated Systems Solutions.

IT
Institute of Technology (U of MN).

ITAC
Information Technology Advisory Council (U of MN).

ITIN
Individual Tax Identification Number.

IV
Intra-institutional Vouchers

IVR
Interactive Voice Response. More than "voice mail," IVR offers the callers menus and instructions to obtain information by telephone.

IX
Expense Transfer

 

J

 
JAWS
Java and Web Services.

JCL
Job Control Language.

JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group.

JRQ
Job Review Questionaire IMS System.

JV
Journal Voucher

 

K

 
K
1024

k
1000

Kbps
kilo bits per second

 

L

 
LAN
Local Area Network.

LAPS
Loan Application Processing System (IMS System).

LCD
Liquid Crystal Display.

LCSE
Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering (U of MN).

LED
Light Emitting Diode.

LMS
Loan Management System.

LSAT
(Law School Admissions Test.) Admissions test for Law School similar in concept to the SAT.

LSL
Link Support Layer.

LUMINA
Libraries of the University of Minnesota Integrated Network Access

 

M

 
MARDB
Monthly Admissions Reporting Database.

MB
Megabytes (1024 x 1024 = 1,048,576).

Mb
Megabits.

MCAT
(Medical College Admissions Test.) Admissions test for medical school similar in concept to the SAT.

Mbps
million bits per second.

MEANS
Minnesota Equal Access Network Services, Inc.

MES
Minnesota Extension Service (U of MN).

METC
Minnesota Education Telecommunications Council.

MetNet
Metropolitan Educational Telecommunications Network.

MHEC
Midwestern Higher Education Consortium.

MHTC
Minnesota High Technology Council.

MHz
Megahertz

MIL
Missing Information Letter in SAM, the current financial aid system.

MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension.

MIS
Management Information Sciences.

MISRC
Management Information Systems Research Center (U of MN).

MnSCU
Minnesota State Colleges and Universities.

MOO
Object-oriented MUD (spelled backwards).

MPOA
Multi-Protocol Over ATM.

MRNet
Minnesota Regional Network.

MSA
Minnesota Student Association (U of MN).

MSC
Minnesota Supercomputer Center.

MSI
Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.

MSRS
Minnesota State Retirement System.

MTA
Material Transfer Agreement.

MTDC
Modified Total Direct Costs.

MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit.

MUD
Multi-User Dungeon.

MVS/ESA
Multiple Virtual Storage Extended System Architecture.

 

N

 
NASTE
Non-Academic Short Term Employment

NDIS
Network Driver Interface Specification - also - Network and Desktop Integration Services.

NDS
Novell Directory Services.

NEAT
NorthEast Alliance for Telecommunications.

NFS
Network File System.

NIC
Network Interface Card.

NIH
National Institutes of Health

NLII
National Learning Infrastructure Initiative

NMT
Non-mandatory Transfer.

NOGA
Notice of Grant/Contract Award

NOS
Network Operating System.

NSLDS
National Student Loan Data Service.

NSF
National Science Foundation.

NTIA
National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

NTS
Networking and Telecommunications Services (U of MN).

NTTF
Networking and Telecommunications Task Force (Educom).

 

O

 
OC
Optical Carrier (a SONET optical signal).

OCR
Optical Character Recognition.

ODBC
Open Database Connectivity.

ODI
Open Datalink Interface.

OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer.

OHR
Office of Human Resources. OHR's mission is to assist the University in accomplishing its primary purposes by attracting, developing and retaining a productive and diverse work force.

OIT
Office of Information Technology

OLE
Object Linking and Embedding.

OMB
Office of Management and Budget

OOP
Object Oriented Programming.

OOTO
Out Of The Office (e-mail).

OPA
Office of Planning and Analysis (U of MN).

OPAS
Organizational Prior Approval System

ORA
ORTTA IMS System.

ORTTA
Office of Research and Technology Transfer Administration (U of MN).

OS
Operating System.

OSF
Open Systems Foundation.

OSI
Open Systems Interconnect.

OTOH
On The Other Hand (e-mail).

OVPR
Office of the Vice President for Research

ORTTA
Office of Research and Technology Transfer Administration

 

P

 
P&A
Academic Professional and Administrative.

PAF
Personnel Action Form

PAMS
Property Asset Management System (U of MN).

PAYACCT
Payroll/Accounting Reporting Database.

PBX
Private Branch Exchange.

PC
Purchase Order with Commodities, or Parental Contribution

PCI
Personal Component Interconnect and Peripheral Control Interface.

PDA
Personal Digital Assistant.

PEM
Privacy Enhanced Mail.

PEP
Pre-Employment Project (PEP) Team. Fourteen technical and functional staff coordinating the design, construction and implementation of the Web-based job center for non-academic staffing. This will provide on-line job applications, postings, matching jobs to applicants and policies and procedures. Members of the PEP Team are drawn from Human Resources and OIT.

PF
Program Function Keys.

PI
Principal Investigator

PIM
Personal Information Manager.

PING
Packet Internet Group.

PL/1
Programming Language One.

PLA
private LAN administrator

POG
(Process Owners Group.) Directors and managers of a variety of departments that provide services to students, which provides day-to-day management of the Student 2000 Project.

POP
Point of Presence and Post Office Protocol.

POST
Power-On Self Test

POT
Purchase Order with Text (aka PO)

PPP
Point to Point Protocol.

PR
Payroll

PRI
Primary Rate Interface.

PS
PeopleSoft

PTM
Patents & Technology Marketing.

PV
Payment Voucher.

PVCs
Permanent Virtual Circuits.

PVP
Parallel Vector Processing.

 

Q

 

R

 
RACF
Resource Acquisition Control Facility.

RAD
Rapid Application Development.

RAM
Random Access Memory.

RAR
Research Animal Resource

RARP
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.

RB
Revenue budget (set-up).

RETDB
Retention Reporting Database (U of MN).

RFA
Request for Application. Announcements that indicate the availability of funds for a topic of interest to a sponsor. Proposals submitted in response to RFAs generally result in the award of a grant.

RFC
Request For Comments.

RFI
Request for Information.

RFP
Request for Proposal. Announcements that specify a research topic, methods to be used, product to be delivered, and appropriate applicants sought. Proposals submitted in response to RFPs generally result in the award of a contract.

RIP
Routing Information Protocol.

RJE
Remote Job Entry.

ROM
Read Only Memory.

RPD
Reporting Database.

RRC
Resource Responsibility Center

RRDB
Registration Reporting Database (U of MN).

RSPP
Research Subjects' Protection Programs.

RTF
Rich Text Format.

RX
Requisition.

 

S

 
SAM
Student Aid Management. The former database system controlling student financial aid processing.

SAP
Satisfactory Academic Progress.

SAR
Student Academic Record, Student Aid Report, Student Accounts Receivable.

SAS
Statistical Analysis Software.

SCC
Senate Consultative Committee (U of MN).

SCCIS
Senate Committee on Computing and Information Systems (U of MN).

SCEP
Senate Committee on Educational Policy (U of MN).

SCFP
Senate Committee on Finance and Planning (U of MN).

SCHOL
Scholarship Reporting Database (U of MN).

SCSI
Small Computer System Interface.

SDRDB
Staff Demographics Reporting Database (U of MN).

SEAL
Secure Electronic Access Link.

SFR
Office of Sponsored Financial Reporting

SGML
Standard Graphics Markup Language.

SIMM
Single Inline Memory Module.

SLA
Service Level Agreement.

SLIP
Serial Line Internet Protocol.

SME
Subject Matter Expert. Staff member who brings knowledge of a specific area or function and provides input to the project. Including Subject Matter Experts throughout stages of the vision, process redesign and implementation ensures the representation of that area or function is appropriately considered.

SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol.

SNA
System Network Architecture.

SNT
Simplified Needs Test.

SONET
Synchronous Optical Network

SPA
Sponsored Projects Administration

SPAM
Space Management Reporting Database (U of MN).

SPIN
Sponsored Projects Information Network

SPSS
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences and Statistical Product and Service Solutions.

SQL
Structured Query Language. This is a standard language used to request data from relational databases. For data warehouse queries, the SQL statement used is the SELECT statement.

SQR
Structured Query ReportWriter is usually the reporting tool of choice for high-volume, batch reports such as Payroll Registers, Trial Balances, or Deduction Registers.

SSN
Social Security Number

STARS
Student Account Records Reporting Database (U of MN).

STS
Synchronous Transport Signal.

 

T

 
TAC
Technical Advisory Committee

TCEDB
Transfer Course Reporting Database (U of MN).

TCHEP
Twin Cities Higher Education Partnership.

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Procotol/Internet Protocol. A set of communications protocol developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to network dissimilar computer systems. TCP/IP has become the standard communications protocol for use on the internet.

TDC
Total Direct Cost

TFC
Total Family Contribution.

TIES
Technology and Information Education Services.

TIIAP
Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program.

TIN
Taxpayer Identification Number

TIP
Temporary Investment Pool

TLA
Three Letter Acronyms.

TP
Transaction Program and Transmission Priority.

TPA
Travel Payment Authorization.

TSO
Time-Sharing Option.

TSR
Terminate and Stay Resident

TTY/TDD
Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf

 

U

 
UC
University College (U of MN).

UFO
Unit Financial Officer (U of MN).

UGI
Undergraduate Initiative (U of MN).

UMC
University of Minnesota-Crookston.

UMD
University of Minnesota-Duluth.

UMM
University of Minnesota-Morris.

UMTC
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

UNGTPNet
United Nations Global Trade Point Network.

UNITE
University Instructional Television for Education (U of MN).

UNTPDC
United Nations Trade Point Development Center.

UPAC
University Personal Authorization Code

URL
Uniform Resource Locator. This is an internet naming scheme that identifies the location, file name and retrieval protocol of the resource to be served to the client.

UROP
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (U of MN).

UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair.

 

V

 
VI
Vendor Invoice.

vBNS
very high speed Backbone Network Service.

VAX
Virtual Architecture Extension.

VEL
Virtual Electronic Library (CIC).

VIPA
Virtual IP Addressing

VLAN
Virtual LAN

VM
Virtual Machine

VMS
Virtual Memory System

VPS
Virtual Print Spool

VRA
Vanguard RACF Administrator

VSL
Vacation/Sick Leave

 

W

 
W4
Employee Withholding Allowance Certificate

WAN
Wide Area Network. A communications medium between two computers. An example would be the communications between computers on coordinate campuses.

WBOB
West Bank Office Building (U of MN).

WINS
Windows Internet Naming Service.

WWW
World Wide Web. A subset of the internet that serves documents in a variety of media. WWW servers use HTTP as their retrieval protocol.

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