ALO - Accreditation Liaison Officer
APM - Academic Personnel Manual
AVC - Academic Vice Chancellor
Board of Studies - An administrative unit composed of budgeted faculty members offering instruction and doing research in a titled, recognized discipline or area of investigation and scholarship. A board of studies offers or oversees one or more programs, holds faculty FTE, and its members have Bylaw 55 rights. It is the equivalent of a department at other UC campuses. The procedures for the establishment of a board of studies are the same as for the establishment of a department at other UC campuses.
CAP - Academic Senate Committee on Academic Personnel
CCGA - Coordinating Council on Graduate Affairs (a systemwide committee)
CE - Computer Engineering
CEP - Academic Senate Committee on Educational Policy
Certificate - Obtained by completing a curriculum of structured courses and requirements. UCSC has certificates in Education and Science Writing.
CIS - Computer and Information Sciences
Committee of Studies - An FTE-holding unit whose members have Bylaw 55 rights and which offers one or more programs. Committees of studies differ from boards mainly in size (number of FTE held) and in the degree of dependence on faculty from other units to carry out both the program(s) offered by the committee and the handling of personnel actions. A committee of studies does not have a formally recognized status within the UC system and UCSC is no longer creating units designated in this way.
Comprehensive - A comprehensive examination in the major which satisfies the comprehensive requirement for graduation.
COP - Council of Provosts
COR - Academic Senate Committee on Research
COT - Academic Senate Committee on Teaching
Core Course - Courses taught in the colleges for all entering students. These vary from one to three quarters in length, depending on the college, and are designed to introduce students to college-level learning.
CPB - Academic Senate Committee on Planning and Budget
CPEC - California Post-Secondary Education Commission
CUE - Committee on Undergraduate Education. A chancellorial ad hoc committee which reviewed UCSC's undergraduate education in general, and the general education requirements in particular, and produced a report.
DSS - Disabled Student Services
EVC - Executive Vice Chancellor
FRA - Focused Research Activity
FTE - Full-time Equivalent
GE - General Education
GRE - Graduate Record Exam
GSA - Graduate Student Association
GSR - Graduate Student Researcher
His Con - History of Consciousness. A graduate program at UCSC.
I & R - Instruction and Research
LRDP - Long-Range Development Plan. A campus planning document.
Masterplan - A statewide plan for the development and coordination of the three segments of higher education in California-community colleges, state universities and the University of California.
NES - Narrative Evaluation System
ORA - Organized Research Activity
ORU - Organized Research Unit
Program of Studies - A set of course offerings and a set of requirements leading to a degree or certificate.
Provost - The chief academic officer of a college
SAA/EOP - Student Affirmative Action and Educational Opportunity Programs.
SCRIPT - A computer system which stores narrative evaluations.
SIS - Student Information System. A computer system which contains student records.
Steno - The steno pools provide clerical support services to faculty.
SUA - Student Union Assembly
Systemwide - The entire University of California system, including all campuses and facilities and all academic and administrative units. Equivalent to the term "the University," when not otherwise qualified.
TA - Teaching Assistant
Thesis - A written document involving extensive research and reflecting comprehensive understanding of subject matter. The work must be authorized by the supervising board of studies, committee of studies, or individual-major committee. Students may choose this avenue to satisfy the comprehensive requirement for the major rather than taking an examination.
TOP - Target of Opportunity Program. A program designed to increase the numbers of minority faculty.
Unit 18 - Non-Senate academics, primarily lecturers, field study coordinators, and supervisors of education, represented by UCAFT (2199).
UOP - University Office of the President.