Classroom Building Acronyms
| CB I | Classroom Building I |
| CB II | Classroom Building II |
| HS I | Health Professions and Sciences I |
| HS II | Health Professions and Sciences II |
| CAH | College of Arts and Humanities |
| BAND | Band Practice Facilities |
| BYC | Barbara Ying Center |
| BIO | Biological Sciences Building |
| BHC | Burnett Honors College |
| BA I | Business Administration I |
| BA II | Business Administration II |
| CDC | Kenneth G. Dixon Career Development Center |
| CHEM | Chemistry Building |
| CSB | College of Sciences Building |
| CREOL | College of Optics and Photonics |
| ENG I | Engineering I |
| ENG II | Engineering II |
| HPH | Howard Phillips Hall |
| HEC | L3 Harris Engineering Center |
| MSB | Mathematical Sciences Building |
| NSCM | Nicholson School of Communication and Media |
| PAC | Performing Arts Center |
| PSB | Physical Sciences Building |
| PSY | Psychology Building |
| TA | Teaching Academy |
| TCH | Trevor Colbourn Hall |
| GB | UCF Global Building |
| VAB | Visual Arts Building |
Colleges
| BHC | Burnett Honors College |
| CAH | College of Arts and Humanities |
| CBA | The Barry S. Miller College of Business Administration |
| CCIE | College of Community Innovation and Education |
| CECS | College of Engineering & Computer Science |
| CGS | College of Graduate Studies |
| CHPS | College of Health Professions and Sciences |
| COM | College of Medicine |
| CON | College of Nursing |
| COS | College of Sciences |
| CREOL | College of Optics and Photonics |
| CUS | College of Undergraduate Studies |
| RCHM | Rosen College of Hospitality Management |
Other Terms
A&P – Administrative & Professional
ACA – After Contract Award
ADA – Americans with Disabilitiies Act
ADI – Administrative Discretionary Increase
ADL – Advanced Distributed Learning. This course (ADL 5000) is now retired. It was taken online by faculty to become credentialed to teach their own online (or mixed-mode) courses that someone else has created. To teach a fully original online course, faculty must complete a different program called IDL 6543.
AESP – Annual Evaluation Standards and Procedures
BOG – Board of Governors
BOT – Board of Trustees
C&I – Centers & Institutes
CBA – Collective Bargaining Agreement. This is the formal agreement between the UCF Board of Trustees and the United Faculty of Florida that regulates the terms and conditions of employees at UCF, their duties, and the duties of the Board of Trustees. http://collectivebargaining.ucf.edu/completecba.asp
CDL – Center for Distributed Learning. This office coordinates all permissions, tech support, and assistance with online teaching. They do not control the university hardware like Internet access or email (those are supported by Computer Services). http://cdl.ucf.edu
CITI – Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative
CLERY – Clery Act
COI – Conflict of Interest
Co-PI – Co-Principal Investigator
CPE – Cumulative Progress Evaluation
DAL – Department Authorization List
DRC – Division Review Committee; part of University Assessment. If you are assigned to work with a DRC, a DRC chairperson will give you specific instructions.
DROP – Deferred Retirement Option Program
E&G – Education and General (E&G) funds “may be used for general instruction, research, public service, plant operations and maintenance, furniture, fixtures, equipment, student services, libraries, administrative support, and other enrollment-related and stand-alone operations of the university” (Financial Affairs “UCF Expenditure Guidelines”).
EAR – Export Administration Regulations
EC – Export Control
ECRT – Effort Reporting and Certification
ELI – English Language Institute
EMPL-ID – (pronounced “em-pull I.D.”) Employee ID. This seven-digit number is identical to the UCFID, but is primarily used for personnel and financial matters on university forms.
EOM – End of Month
Essentials – Online training required to receive a course shell via Webcourses (more properly called Webcourses@UCF Essentials, to distinguish it from IDV Essentials). Faculty teaching face-to-face courses, with no reduction in seat time, can use Webcourses@UCF to hold syllabi and materials, or give quizzes, if they complete Essentials. See https://cdl.ucf.edu/teach/professional-development/essentials/ or contact webcourses@ucf.edu to get started.
F&A – Finance and Accounting
F.S. – Florida Statutes
FAR – Faculty Activity Reporting
FAS – Faculty Activity System
FCTL – Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning. The Faculty Center is your first stop for navigating the UCF network of resources; this office aids with all aspects of teaching and learning. Located in CB1-207. https://fctl.ucf.edu
FERPA – Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This act of Congress dictates that student records (including grades) are to be kept confidential. In practice, this means grades and other records should never be posted, displayed, or made available in a way that one student can learn another student’s grade. http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html
FMC – Faculty Multimedia Center. https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/fmc/
FMLA – Family Medical Leave Act
FQMS – Faculty Qualifications Management System
FRS – Florida Retirement System
FSEC – Florida Solar Energy Center
FTE – Full Time Equivalent. This is shorthand for the percentages/components that make up a faculty member’s job. FTE always equals 1.0 (example: research 0.6, teaching 0.3, service 0.1).
FTIC – First Time in College (previously called “freshmen”).
GEP – General Education Program. These required, lower-division classes are sometimes called “core” courses at other colleges. They are often high-enrollment lecture classes.
GRA – Graduate Research Assistant
GTA – Graduate Teaching Assistant
HR – Human Resources. http://hr.ucf.edu
HRIS – Human Resources Information Systems
I/L – Instructors and Lecturers
IDL – Interactive Distributed Learning; this term is used in reference to professional development courses offered by CDL. The first class, IDL 6543, is the required face-to-face course before faculty can teach fully online classes. Contact your chair or director for permission to enroll. IDL 7000 is supplemental and is offered to faculty who wish to refresh or enhance their online teaching experience. https://cdl.ucf.edu/teach/professional-development/idl7000/
IDS – Interdisciplinary Studies. This major at UCF allows students to combine multiple disciplines into a single course of study. https://undergrad.ucf.edu/ids/
IKM – Institutional Knowledge Management. This office provides statistics and data about UCF students, graduation rates, and other institutional data.
In-Unit – Regular positions at UCF classified as “in-unit” are part of a “bargaining unit” and are therefore covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, a contract that lays out certain terms and conditions of employment. Most faculty members outside of the College of Medicine are in-unit.
IRB – Institutional Review Board. This panel of experts reviews all research involving human subjects (including surveys) before the research can begin. This includes classroom-based research. http://www.research.ucf.edu/Compliance/irb.html
IT – Information Technology
ITR – Information Technologies and Resources
Knights Email – Former student email at UCF; they now get an @ucf email address, just like faculty and staff.
LEP – Leadership Enhancement Program
Materia – Flash-based games and study tools faculty can set up for students to practice discrete sets of material. https://materia.ucf.edu/
M-mode – Mixed-mode teaching (also called “blended”) involves reduced seat time, with extra emphasis on Webcourses (it is a partly online class).
myUCF – The “portal” website with access to multiple UCF software systems, all with “single sign-on” (no need to sign in again to access them). Teaching schedules and grade submission are found here, as well as hyperlinks to subsystems like Webcourses@UCF and more. https://my.ucf.edu/
NCE – No Cost Extension. This term is often used with grants that are allowed to continue operating by stretching its original budget.
Network Systems – Department in Computer Services that controls the Internet connection to campus, firewalls, and wireless access.
NFO – New Faculty Orientation. This academic orientation is organized by Faculty Excellence; there is also a separate HR Orientation.
NID – Network ID. This is the ID number that is used to sign in to UCF computer systems and your UCF email. NIDs are often (but not always) composed of the first two letters of your first name and six randomly assigned numbers. To find out what your NID is, visit https://my.ucf.edu/nid.html. To change your NID password, visit http://mynid.ucf.edu/.
NTE – Non-Tenure Earning
Obojobo – A software environment for testing, practicing, and reading “learning objects.” Can work in conjunction with Webcourses. This word is not an abbreviation for anything. https://obojobo.ucf.edu/
OFC – Office of Foreign Assets Control
OIR – Office of Instructional Resources; coordinates hardware in classrooms (unless that room/building is controlled by a college instead). http://oir.ucf.edu
ONAC – Office of Nondiscrimmination & Accomodations Compliance. http://onac.ucf.edu
OPS – Other Personnel Services
OOR – Office of Research. All sponsored research at UCF must be coordinated with OOR; they will also help with the grant process. http://www.research.ucf.edu
ORP – Optional Retirement Plan
OUR – Office of Undergraduate Research. https://academicsuccess.ucf.edu/our/
Outlook – UCF’s official email system (sometimes called Exchange, which is the name of the software controlling it).
P&T – Promotion and Tenure
Panopto – Lecture-capture software, often used while teaching to live students. Captures PowerPoint (or document camera) as well as inset webcam-style video. http://oir.ucf.edu/lecture-capture/
PFSA – Pride Faculty and Staff Association
Physical Plant – UCF’s term for the facilities office, which handles such services as housekeeping, maintenance, and postal services on campus. http://www.fo.ucf.edu
PI – Principal Investigator
Portal – Synonym for “myUCF”
PTF – Preparing Tomorrow’s Faculty. A voluntary, zero-credit-hour graduate course offered every fall and spring semester to help graduate students learn the principles of teaching and begin to assemble a teaching portfolio. https://fctl.ucf.edu/programs/gta-programs/
QEP – Quality Enhancement Plan. As part of the university’s accreditation with SACS-COC, UCF chooses a “quality enhancement plan” every ten years to develop and execute a university-wide, multi-year initiative seeking to improve student learning outcomes.
RCR – Responsible Conduct of Research
Respondus – Free third-party software that enables plain-text quizzes to be uploaded to Webcourses@UCF with a few clicks. https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/webcourses/respondus/
RFO – Resonsible Fiscal Officer
RFP – Request for Proposals. The formal call for proposals to win competitive offers for funding.
RIA – Research Incentive Award. This competitive award adds $5,000 to base salary; see the provost’s website for details. https://facultyexcellence.ucf.edu/recognition/research-incentive-award/
RITE – Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness. This research-based subgroup is part of CDL and investigates mostly online learning. https://digitallearning.ucf.edu/learning-analytics/
SACS-COC – Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges; the official accrediting body for UCF. http://www.sacs.org
SARC – Student Academic Resource Center. Tutorial, supplemental instruction, and study skills workshops for students. http://sarc.sdes.ucf.edu
SAS – Student Accessibility Services. Coordinates requests for accommodation for students with disabilities. http://sas.sdes.ucf.edu
SLO – Student Learning Outcomes.
SoTL – Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. This refers to publications, presentations, and grants in peer-reviewed journals about teaching methods and practices. See the Faculty Center website for information about SoTL design and implementation. UCF sponsors a SoTL Award that adds $5000 to faculty base salaries (see the provost’s website for details). https://facultyexcellence.ucf.edu/recognition/scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning/
SPE – Sustained Perfomance Evaluations
SPI – Student Perception of Instruction. These reviews of class/faculty performance are given to students at the end of each class when they log in to myUCF. Some departments use SPI results to aid in annual (formal) faculty evaluations. https://it.ucf.edu/our-services/test-scoring/student-perception-of-instruction/
SSWB – Student Success and Well-Being. Student-facing programs and services aimed at student success and retention. http://www.sdes.ucf.edu/
STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. These disciplines are often referred to in the aggregate, and many programs are customized for STEM audiences.
Summer Faculty Development Institute – Participants apply to one of several tracks at this funded, UCF-specific conference. Faculty do not present research at this conference; rather, they attend to gather ideas. Many tracks also require work toward a final product and complete collaborative projects.
SUS – State University System
T&P – Tenure and Promotion. Contact Faculty Excellence (407-823-1113) with any questions.
TIP – Teaching Incentive Program Award. This competitive award adds $5,000 to base salary; see the provost’s website for details.
TLC – Teaching with Lecture Capture. TLC is a self-paced professional development course for faculty who wish to teach in a video streaming modality and who wish to present course content appropriate for video lecture capture. The program is a UCF prerequisite for delivery of an exclusively video streamed course (V), or a video streamed course with classroom attendance options (RV). https://cdl.ucf.edu/teach/professional-development/lecture-capture/
TurnItIn – Plagiarism detection and prevention service. Faculty contact CDL to obtain a TurnItIn account. http://turnitin.com
UCFID – This is a second ID number (besides the NID) and is used as a unique identifier for faculty, staff, and students. The UCFID is the same seven digits of your employee ID (EMPL-ID). For more information about the UCFID and where it is used, visit https://infosec.ucf.edu/identity-management/identity-details/.
UCFRF – UCF Research Foundation
UFF-UCF – United Faculty of Florida is the professional association and collective bargaining
Terms from the Office of Research
ADR – Associate Dean for Research
ADRF – Ara Drive Research Facility
AMPAC – Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center
ARCC – Advanced Research Computing Center
BIP – Business Incubator Program
CFTG – Central Florida Tech Grove
CI – Competitive Intelligence
DAT – Disability, Aging, and Technology (Cluster)
EARLIER – Expanded Assistance and Resources for Large Interdisciplinary, and Emerging Research (Proposal Support)
FCI – Faculty Cluster Initiative
FHTC – Florida High Tech Corridor
FSI – Florida Space Institute (and, also could be, Florida Semiconductor Institute – a non-UCF entity)
FSRC – Florida Space Research Council
FTRI – Florida Transportation Research Institute (Consortium housed at UCF)
GRIT – Graduate and Research Information Technology Team
HSRU – Hispanic Serving Research Universities
IAI – Institute of Artificial Intelligence
IACUC or OAW – Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee or Office of Animal Welfare
IP – Intellectual Property
IRC – Industry Readiness Council
IST – Institute for Simulation and Training
ITAR – International Traffic in Arms Regulations
LSI – Limitless Solutions, Inc.
MSS – Machine Shop Operations
NMR – NMR Facility and Cryogenic Services
NSTC/Nano – Nano Science Technology Center
OFAC – Office of Foreign Asset Control
OICEC – Office of International Collaboration and Export Control
OTT – Office of Technology Transfer
PRI – Pegasus Research Institute
RCI – Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure (Subunit of GRIT)
RD – Research Development
REACT – Renewable Energy and Chemical Transformation (Cluster)
REU – Research Experience for Undergraduates
RISES – Resilient, Intelligent and Sustainable Energy Systems (Cluster and Center)
TTO – Another Acronym for the Office of Technology Transfer
UCFRF – Research Foundation (Nonprofit Organization)
VAW – Violence Against Women (Cluster)
VPR – Vice President for Research and Innovation