ACT - Administrative Computing and Telecommunications
AD - Administration Building
ASI - Associated Students Incorporated. The student body government.
BI - Biological Sciences Building
CA - Creative Arts Building
CAR - Coaches Activities Report. Same as a FAR, but prepared by coaches.
CBA - Collective Bargaining Agreement. The contract between the CSU and the CFA.
CFA - California Faculty Association. The union which represents faculty members of the CSU system.
CMS - Common Management Systems. A project that consolidates the management systems of all CSU campuses and utilizes one software package that to support its Human Resources, Financial and Student systems.
CPEC - California Post-Secondary Education Commission
CSEA - California State Employees Association. The union which represents staff within the CSU system.
CSU - California State University system
DARS - Degree Audit Record System for computerized credit and degree progress analysis.
FAM - Faculty Administrative Manual. Compilation of policies on faculty.
FAR - Faculty Activities Report. Report of activities and accomplishments prepared by faculty members that is the basis of the evaluation process.
FERP - Faculty Early Retirement Program
FOB Faculty Office Building
FTEF - Full-Time Equivalent Faculty. Used for budgetary, scheduling and statistical purposes, refers to full-time faculty positions (not bodies) on campus during any given quarter or year.
FTES - Full-Time Equivalent Students. See FTEF -- same thing, but applies to students.
GSI - General Salary Increase. Same as cost-of-living raise.
HP - Health and PE Building
JB - Jack Brown Hall
LAR - Librarian Activities Report. Same as a FAR, but prepared by Librarians.
MOU - Memorandum of Understanding.
MPP - Management Personnel Program -- refers to administrators.
PERS - Public Employees Retirement System
PL - Pfau Library
PS - Physical Sciences Building
RPT - Retention, Promotion and Tenure. Refers to the evaluation process for faculty which is described in detail in “Procedures and Criteria for Performance Review and Periodic Evaluation". It is also called the “RPT document.”
SETE - Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness, pronounced “See-Tee”. Evaluation forms filled out by students on their instructors that become one of the principal instruments of evaluation in the RPT process.
SFR - Student Faculty Ratio. Number of full-time equivalent students divided by number of full-time equivalent faculty. SFR = FTES/FTEF.
SIS+ - Student Information Systems -- used to access student records for advising purposes
SSP,AR - Student Services Professional - Academically Related.
SSSI - Service Salary Step Increase.
SU - Student Union
TO - Trailer Offices (the temporary buildings at the north end of campus).
TRACS - Telephone Ready Access Computer System for phone registration, enrollment verification, dropping and adding courses, financial aid status, grade reports, etc.
UH - See U Hall.
U Hall - Not a place to rent a truck, but “University Hall.” he building on campus which houses -among other things - Admissions and Records, Financial Aid, Humanities, and Undergraduate Studies. Also known as “UH.”
WASC - Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The regional accrediting body which approves high schools, community colleges, 4-year colleges, graduate and professional schools in California, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.
WPAF - Working Personnel Action File