Acronyms

A
ABE	Adult Basic Education
AD&D	Accidental Death and Dismemberment
AFC	Average Final Compensation
AFRS	Agency Financial Reporting System
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
API	Application Program Interface
ARC	Admissions and Registration Council
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP	Application Server Provider –or– Active Server Page (Microsoft technology)
B
BAC	Business Affairs Commission
BAR	Budgeting, Accounting, Reporting Council
BI	Business Intelligence
BLS	Bureau of Labor Statistics (federal)
bps	bits per second
C
CAA	Computer Assisted Advising
CAR	Competitive Advantage Reclamation
CBT	computer-based training
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CIP	Classification of Instructional Programs
CIS	Center for Information Services (now SBCTC-ITD)
CMMS	Computerized Maintenance Management System
COA	Chart of Accounts
COBRA	Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985
COCO	Computing Options Company
COD	Common Origination and Disbursement (Pell)
COH	cancellation/overpayment/handdrawn
COLA	cost-of-living adjustment
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
CPI	Consumer Price Index
CPU	central processing unit
CTC	Community and Technical Colleges (Washington)
CUPA	College and University Personnel Association
D
DB	database
DBA	database administrator
DBMS	Database Management System
DDE	Dynamic Data Exchange
DIS	Department of Information Services (Washington State)
DLF	Data Land Fill
DLL	Dynamic Link Library
DMD	Data Model Diagrams
DNS	Domain Name System
DOE, ED	Department of Education, Education Department (federal)
DOP	Department of Personnel (Washington State)
DOS	disk operating system
DRS	Department of Retirement Systems (Washington State)
DSL	digital subscriber line –or– distributed system line
DSN	Distributed System Network
DSS	Decision Support System
DTC	Data communications and Terminal Controller

E
EAP	Employee Assistance Program
ED, DOE	Education Department, Department of Education (federal)
EDC	EdConnect
EDE	Electronic Data Exchange (DOE software)
EDI	Electronic Data Interchange
EEOA	Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 (Title VII)
EEOC	Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (federal)
EFC	Expected Family Contribution
EFT	electronic funds transfer
EGA	Enhanced Graphics Adapter
EIC	Earned Income Credit
EIN	Employer Identification Number
EOE	Equal Opportunity Employer
ER	Entity Relationship
ERBB	Employee Retirement Benefits Board
ERD	Entity Relationship Diagram
ERISA	Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
ERP	Enterprise Resource Planning
ESL	English as a Second Language
ETL	extract, transform, and load
F
FAC	Financial Aid Council
FAE	Facilities and Equipment
FAQ	frequently asked question
FACP	Financial Aid Program Code
FAFSA	Free Application for Federal Student Aid
FAS	Financial Aid System
FICA	Federal Insurance Contributions Act
FISAP	Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate (Financial Aid System)
FLSA	Fair Labor Standards Act
FM1	Facilities Maintenance Management System
FMS	Financial Management System
FSEOG	Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant
FTE	full-time equivalent
FTEF	full-time equivalent faculty
FTES	full-time equivalent student
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FWS	Federal Work-Study
G
GB	gigabyte
GSL	Guaranteed Student Loan
GUI	graphical user interface
H
HCA	Health Care Authority (Washington State)
HECB	Higher Education Coordinating Board (Washington State
HEPB	Higher Education Personnel Board (Washington State)
HLDD	high-level design document
HMO	health maintenance organization
HP	Hewlett-Packard
HPUX	Hewlett-Packard UNIX
HRMC	Human Resource Management Commission
HRMS	Human Resource Management system
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP	Hypertext Transport Protocol
I
IPEDS	Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
IRC	Information Resource Coordinator
ISB	Information Services Board (Washington State)
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISIR	Institutional Student Information Record
ISN	internal sequence number
ISP	Internet Service Provider
IT	information technology
ITC	Information Technology Commission
ITPG	Information Technology Planning Group
ITV	interactive video
IVR	interactive voice response
J
JSU	Job Scheduling Utility
K
KB	kilobyte
KOCO	K-20 Operating Cooperative (Washington State)
KSAM	keyed sequential access method
L
L & I	Department of Labor and Industries (Washington State)
LAAP	Learning Anytime Anywhere Project (Distance Learning)
LAN	local area network
LDEV	logical device number
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LMDC	Library Media Directors Council
LTD	long-term disability
lwop	leave without pay

M
MB	megabyte
MD OLAP	Multi-Dimensional On-Line Analytical Processing
MEA	Maximum Exclusion Allowance
MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MIS	Management Information System
MMHS	Minimum Medical and Health Standards
MOM	Message Oriented Middleware
MPE/iX	Multiprogramming Executive with Integrated POSIX
N
NACUBO	National Association of College and University Business Officers
NT	(Microsoft Windows) New Technology
NRT	near real time
NWCET	Northwest Center for Emerging Technologies, Bellevue College
O
OASI	Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance
ODBC	Open DataBase Connectivity
ODS	Operational Data Store
OFM	Office of Financial Management (Washington State)
OLTP	On-Line Transaction Processing
OMB	Office of Management and Budget (federal)
OOP	Object Oriented Programming
OSE	Office of Support Enforcement (Washington State)
OSHA	Office of Safety and Health Administration (federal)
P
PACTC	Presidents Assistants for Community and Technical Colleges
PBX	private branch exchange
PDF	Portable Document Format
PIC	Public Information Commission
PIN	Personal Identification Number
PEBB	Public Employees' Benefits Board (Washington State)
PERS	Public Employees’ Retirement System (Washington State)
PMS	Production Management System
POSIX	Portable Operating System Interface
PPMS	Payroll/Personnel Management System
PPMSUG	Payroll/Personnel Management System Users Group
PPO	preferred provider organization
Q
QA	Quality Assurance
R
RAD	Rapid Application Development
RAM	Random Access Memory
RCW	Revised Code of Washington
RFI	Request For Information
RFMS	Recipient and Financial Management System (Financial Aid System)
RFP	Request For Proposals
RFQ	Request For Quotation
RFQQ	Request For Quotation and Qualifications
RGB	red green blue
ROM	Read Only Memory
RTF	Rich Text Format
S
SAC	Standing Advisory Committee (eliminated 1997)
SAFERS	Student Aid Financial Evaluation and Record Keeping System
SAR	Student Aid Report (Financial Aid System)
SARS	Statewide Asset Reporting System
SBCTC	State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
SBCTC-ITD	State Board for Community and Technical Colleges-IT Division
SCS	Shared Client Services (now Technology Solutions Group)
SDK	Software Development Kit
SGML	Standard Generalized Markup Language
SID	Student Identification Number
SME	subject matter expert
SMS	Student Management System
SNG	State Need Grant
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SQL	Structured Query Language
SRA	Supplemental Retirement Annuity
SSA	Social Security Administration
SSN	Social Security number
T
TACTC	Trustees Association of Community & Technical Colleges
TB	terabyte
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIAA/CREF	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund
TOC	table of contents
TOPC	Telecommunications Oversight Policy Committee
TRS	Teachers’ Retirement System (Washington State)
TSG	Technology Solutions Group
TSR	Technology Support Roundtable (formerly IRC group)
U
UDA	Universal Data Access
UML	Universal Modeling Language
URR	Unit Record Report (Financial Aid System)
UPS	uninterruptible power supply
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
V
VGA	Video Graphics Array
VEBA	Voluntary Employees Benefit Association
VEST	Vendor Evaluation and Selection Team
W
WAC	Washington Administrative Code
WACCALUG	Washington Community Colleges Automated Library Users' Group
WACRAO	Washington Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers (now ARC)
WACTC	Washington Association of Community and Technical Colleges
WAN	Wide Area Network
WAOL	Washington Online
WCET	Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
WCTC	Washington Community and Technical Colleges
WFAA	Washington Financial Aid Association
WFSE	Washington Federation of State Employees
WHEDEC	Washington Higher Education Distance Education Consortium
WHETS	Washington Higher Education Telecommunication System
WIPHE	Washington Institutions of Public Higher Education
WPEA	Washington Public Employees Association
WSSSC	Washington State Student Services Commission
WSTRS	Washington State Teachers Retirement System
WTS	CIS Web Transaction Server
WWW	World Wide Web
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get
X
XL	Executable Library
XML	Extensible Markup Language
XMS	Extended Memory Specification
Y
Y2K	Year 2000