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Acronyms and Terms at CSUF
| Administration
Related |
| CSU |
California State
University system |
| FTEF |
Full-time Equivalent Faculty. Used for budgetary,
Scheduling and statistical purposes, refers to full-time faculty
positions on campus during any given semester or year. One FTEF
= .8 teaching units plus .2 advisement/committee work |
| FTES |
Full-time Equivalent Students.
See FTEF – same thing, but
applies to students. For a 3 unit course: 5 students = 1 FTES |
| MPP |
Management Personnel Position—refers to
administrators |
| SIS+ |
Student Information Systems—Computer
system used to
access student information for advising purposes. SIS+ also
keeps track of classroom assignments. |
| Buildings |
| CP |
College Park |
| CS |
Computer Science Building |
| E |
Engineering Building |
| EC |
Education Classroom Building |
| ETC |
El Toro Campus |
| G |
Golleher Alumni House |
| H |
Humanities Building |
| LH |
Langsdorf Hall Building |
| MH |
McCarthy Hall Building |
| MVC |
Mission Viejo Campus is defunct, replaced by El Toro, but
you may still here references to it. |
| P |
Physical Education Building |
| PA |
Performing Arts Building |
| PL |
Pollak Library. PLS – South, PLN --
North |
| RGC |
Ruby Gerontology Center |
| T |
Temporary Trailers. Some of the temporary
trailers have been here for 35 years, but… Ones numbered
below 100 are next to Carl’s Jr.; ones numbered above
100 are on the north campus (public safety, etc.) |
| TSU |
Titan Student Union |
| UH |
or U Hall University Hall Building |
| VA |
Visual Arts Building |
| Personnel
Related |
| AAR |
Annual Activity Report. Required
of faculty as a basis for merit salary increases, when available. |
| CBA |
Collective Bargaining Agreement. |
| CFA |
California Faculty Association.
The union which
represents faculty members of the CSU system and which negotiates
the CBA. |
| CSEA |
California State Employees Association. The union which
represents staff within the CSU system |
| FAR |
Office of Faculty Affairs and Records. Permanent
personnel records are housed there. |
| FERP |
Faculty Early Retirement Program |
| FMI |
Faculty Merit Increases (Awarded based on
faculty merit) |
| PERS |
Public Employees Retirement System |
| PORTFOLIO |
Documentation of activities, prepared annually,
the covers teaching, research/creative activity, and service |
| RTP |
Retention, Tenure & Promotion. Refers to the evaluation
process for faculty |
| SETE |
Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness
forms. Also called SOQs (student opinion questionnaires), and
other names |
| SSI |
Service Salary Step Increases, salary increments within rank |
| WPAF |
Working Personnel Action File; now called
the Portfolio. It is the document, prepared annually, that is
the basis for personnel evaluation |
| Colleges |
| COMM |
College of Communications, CP-450 |
| ECS |
College of Engineering & Computer Science, CS-501 |
| HDCS |
College of Human Development and community
Service
(Pronounced “hud-kuss”), EC-324 |
| H&SS |
College of Humanities & Social Sciences, H-211 |
| NSM |
College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics,
MH-166 |
| CBE |
College of Business & Economics, LH700 |
| COTA |
College of the Arts, VA-199 |
| University
Divisions/Programs |
| AA |
Academic Affairs. The Division
that houses faculty |
| AS |
Associated Students. The study body government |
| CSUFF |
Cal State Fullerton Foundation. The money-making
arm of the University, containing Titan Shops, Food Services,
etc |
| CTS |
Classroom Technology Support Center, MH-63 |
| FDC |
Faculty Development Center, PLS-44 |
| IT |
Information Technology, PLS-260 |
| OGC |
Office of Grants and Contracts |
| UAF |
University Advancement Foundation |
| UEE |
University Extended Education |
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