Acronyms and Definitions

What it means...

3PM

Planning, Public Policy, and Management, aka PPPM

AAU

Association of American Universities. (Wiki page)

AEC

Accessible Education Center

AEI

American English Institute

AFT

Applied Flow Technology, software. AFT Fathom.

ARMS

Account Records Management System 

ASG

Aronson Security Group, vendor used to UO that has now been purchased by ADT

ASM

Apple School Manager

ASUO

Associated Students of the University of Oregon, colloquially often called "student government"

AVP

Associate (or Assistant) Vice President

BA

Business Analyst

BAG

Budget Advisory Group

Banner

University of Oregon financial system

BAO

Budget Affairs Office

BAS

Building Automation System

BCC

Black Cultural Center

BDOT

Business Data Operations Team

BFF

Bona Fide Factor (related to OEPA)

BMS

Building Management System, software used by the BAS group to control buildings, for example temperature

BRP

Budget and Resource Planning

Campus Ops

Campus Operations, former name for CPFM

CapCon

Former name for Design and Construction

CAD

Computer Aided Design, software used by Design and Construction, ex: AutoCAD

CAD

Computer Aided Dispatch, software used up UOPD for dispatching

CAS

College of Arts and Sciences

CASI

Center for Accelerating Science Impact (the Knight Campus)

CASIT

College of Arts and Sciences Information Technology support

CasX

Hatfield-Dowlin Complex, football operations, prior to the official name it was called Casanova Expansion

CC

Computing Center

CCH

Computerized Criminal History

CCT

Communications and Collaborative Technologies, formerly known as UC or Unified Communications, phones, chat, and conferencing apps

CERC

Communication and Emergency Response Center, the UOPD's dispatch center

CHC

Clark Honors College

CHRO

Chief Human Resources Officer

CHW

Chill Water

CJI

Criminal Justice Information

CJIS

Criminal Justice Information Services

CLLAS

Center for Latino/Latina American Studies

CMAE

Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence

CMMS

Computerized Maintenance Management System

CoD

College of Design

CoE

College of Education

COFS

Campus Operations Facilities Services, former name for CPFM

COS

Chief of Staff

CPC

Campus Planning Committee

CPFM

Campus Planning and Facilities Management

CPS

Central Power Station

CSB

Clinical Services Building

CSWS

Center for the Study of Women in Society

CTJ

Cost Transfer Justification

CTL

Central on Teaching and Learning

D&C

Design and Construction

DAF

Duck Athletic Fund

DBC

Door Board Control, for AMAG tells how many doors can be hooked to a panel, panels come in 2DBC, 4DBC, and 8DBC

DDS

Designated Driver Shuttle

DEI

Division of Equity and Inclusion

DG

Distribution Group

DL

Distribution List

DNU

DO NOT UNLOCK, description that should never be unlocked...ever...never ever, so don't do it

DPS

Department of Public Safety, former name for UOPD

DSM

DiskStation Manager

DSU

Dell System Update Utility, used to automatically update drivers on a Dell server

DV

Dynamic View

E&G

Education and General (funds)

EAMS

Enterprise Asset Management System, we use AiM

EAP

Employee Assistance Program

EC Cares

Early Childhood CARES, program affiliated with the College of Education

ECS

Educational and Community Supports

EDM

Enterprise Desktop Management, an IT group under USS

EDW

Enterprise Data Warehouse

EHS

Environmental Health and Safety, former name for Safety and Risk Services

ELE

Electric

ELI5

ELI5 is short for “Explain Like I’m 5,” a request for a simple explanation to a complicated question or problem.

ELR

Employee and Labor Relations

EMIS

Energy Management Information System

EMS

Event Management Service

EMU

Erb Memorial Union

EOC

Emergency Operations Center, access controlled by SRS

EOD

Expansion of Duties

EPAF

Electronic Payroll Action Form

ERAS

External Relations Administrative Services 

ERS

Enterprise Risk Services, former name for Safety and Risk Services

F&A

Facilities and Administration rate/return

FAC

Ford Alumni Center

FASS

Finance and Administration Shared Services

FASS IT

IT department supporting several FASS units including FASS, Utilities and Energy, and UOPD

FERPA

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FLSA

Fair Labor Standards Act

FMLA

Family Medical Leave Act

FOAPAL

Fund Organization Account Program Activity Location, from the Banner financial system, funding source/string IDing the intended location for the budget or fund

FS

Facilities Services, former name for CPFM

FTE

Full Time Equivalency

FY

Fiscal Year, July 1st - June 30th 

GC

General Counsel

GE

Graduate Employee, used to be known as Graduate Teaching Fellowship

GF

General Fund

GHS

Global Scholar's Hall

GIS

Geographical Information Systems (GIS), part of Safety and Risk Services.

Green Screen

old signage software used by the Ford Alumni Center, it's fs-sign-fac01 and has IE open in full screen mode with the uoregon.edu webpage on it

GTF

Graduate Teaching Fellowship, former name for GE

GTFF

Graduate Teaching Fellows Foundation (graduate employees' union)

HB #

House Bill number

HCB

aka UHC (University Health Center), Health Center Building

HDC

Hatfield-Dowlin Complex

HECC

Higher Education Coordinating Commission

HEDCO

A clinic in the College of Education

HHU

Handheld Units, for parking, talk to the parking system for tickets

HRIS

Human Resources Information System

HWTP

Hamilton Walton Transformation Project, also known as New Residence Hall

ICC

Indirect Cost credits, revenue generated by the F&A rate charged to sponsored grants

IDEAL

IDEAL Framework: Inclusion, Diversity, Evaluation, Achievement, Leadership

IdM

Identity Manager

IDR

Integrated Data and Reporting, uses Cognos for analytics

iDRAC

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller, tool in Dell PowerEdge.

IG

InfoGraphics

IHP

Institutional Hiring Plan

IMT

Incident Management Team

IR

Institutional Research

IROCE

Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments 

IS

Information Sciences or Information Services

ISIC

Information Services Incident Command

J School

Journalism School, aka School of Journalism and Communication

JCPD

Junction City Police Department

JoRo

Romania Warehouse, called JoRo because it used to be the Joe Romania car dealership, the central CPFM folks would out of here

JSMA

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

JSS

Jane Sanders Stadium

JV

Journal Voucher

JWJ

Johnson Hall

KC

Knight Campus

KCASI

Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact

KD

Knowledge Desk

KWAX

University of Oregon classical radio station

LAPS

Local Administrator Password Solution

LCB

Lundquist College of Business

LCMS

Liability Claims Management System, related to workers' comp claims

LD changes

Labor Distribution changes

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LEDS

Law Enforcement Data System

Lewis Lounge

The 4th floor of the Knight Law School

LIL

Location Innovation Lab, the new name for the GIS folks in Safety and Risk Services on campus.

LISB

Lewis Integrated Science Building

Little Duo Push Thingy

2FA Duo fobs available from the Technology Service Desk.

LLC

Living-Learning Center

LWOP

Leave Without Pay

MCC

Multicultural Center, inclusion.uoregon.edu

McMorran House

aka Pres Res, the university president's residence

MDT

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

MECM

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager

MFR

Mobile Field Reporting

MKA

Matthew Knight Area

MNCH

Museum of Natural and Cultural History

NAT

Network Address Translation

NCIC

National Crime Information Center

NGFW

Next Generation FireWall

NRH

New Residence Hall, the former name for Kalapuya

NTS

Network and Telecom Services, part of Central IS

NTTF

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

NVR

Network Video Recorder

OAS

Operations Administrative Services

OCIAS

Oregon Consortium of International Area Studies (Russian, African, Latin American, Intl. Asian, European, and Canadian Studies

ODOT

Oregon Department of Transportation, parking is houses in an old ODOT building

OEPA

Oregon Equal Pay Act

OIA

Office of International Affects, now called the Division of Global Engagement since 2018)

OICRC

Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance

OIMB

Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, on the coast in Charleston, Oregon

OIP

Office of Internal Programs

OIX

aka Oregon-IX, Oregon Internet Exchange

OOO

Out of Office

OPE

Other Payroll Expenses, Includes the university’s share of an employee’s medical & dental insurance, retirement, Social Security, Medicare, Worker’s Compensation, Unemployment, the Lane County Transit tax and the State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF).  For classified employees, it also includes a portion toward the Employee Relations Board (ERB). OPE consists of two basic components, fixed (insurance and Employee Relations Board) and variable.

OPSRP

Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan

ORGN code

Department code from Banner

ORP

Oregon Retirement Plan

ORS

Oregon Revised Statutes

OSNA

Operating Systems Network Analyst

OSP

Oregon State Police

OtP

Office of the Provost

OUS

Oregon University System

OWA

Outlook Web Access

PAC

Personal Access Code

PAST

Provost Administrative Services Team

PCI DSS

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards

PCS

Purchasing and Contracting Services

PD

Position Description

PE & Rec

Physical Education & Recreation, PER in Debbie's head

PEBB

Public Employees' Benefit Board

PEI

Portland Engineering, contractor for WonderWare

PERS

Public Employees' Retirement System

PHNB

Peace Health North Building

PLC

Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, where the Central IS helpdesk is located, room 068

PME

Power Monitoring Export, Schneider software

PO

Purchase Order

POD(s)

Police Observation Device (s)

PP

Physical Plant, former name for CPS

PPPM

Planning, Public Policy, and Management, aka 3PM

Pres Res

aka McMorran House, the university president's residence

PRF

Payroll Request Form

PRQ

Purchase Request

PSC

Price Science Commons

PSJ

Public Safety and Justice

PUP

PageUp People, aka My Track

PUSF

Public University Support Fund (funds allocated from HECC)

PWIVERI

Employee history screen in Banner

RBAC

Role-Based Account Creation

REX

Request to Exit, an accessory to the AMAG system that allows you to leave a room without badging out, usually a white bar mounted to the ceiling just above the door

RMS

Records Management System

RO

Reverse Osmosis

ro

Read Only

RPS

Remote Programming Software, Bosch software for programming alarm panels

RST

Restricted

RT

Request Tracker, ticketing software

rwm

Read Write Modify

SA

Student Affairs

SAG

Space Advisory Group

SAIT

Student Life IT

SB #

Senate Bill #

SCADA

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, software used to monitor and control utility equipment

SCUA

Special Collections and University Archives with UO Libraries

SEIU

SERVICE Employees International Union (classified employees union)

SEMP

Strategic Energy Management Plan, from U&E

SHB

aka UHC (University Health Center), Student Health Building

SHC

aka UHC (University Health Center), Student Health Center

SLA

Service Level Agreement

Smart wall

a wall of multiple displays in Milestone

SOC

Security Operations Center

SOJC

School of Journalism and Communication, aka J School

SOMD

School of Music and Dance

SOS

Skybox at Autzen stadium in S886 on the 5th floor

SPA

Service Partnership Agreement, what FASS calls Service Level Agreements

SPC

Sports Performance Center

SRC

Student Recreation Center

SRS

Safety and Risk Services

SSEM

Student Success and Enrollment Management

SSIL

Social Science Instructional Labs - https://ssil.uoregon.edu/

STM

Steam

TAG

The Automation Group

TDx

Team Dynamix, ticketing software used by Central IS, https://service.uoregon.edu 

TFAB

Tuition and Fee Advisory Board, check out https://tuition.uoregon.edu/

TGMS

Toxic Gas Monitoring System

TSD

Technology Service Desk

TTF

Tenure Track Faculty

TLO

TransUnion

TUC

Thompson University Center

U&E

Utilities and Energy

UA

United Academics (faculty union)

UC

Unified Communications, now called Communications and Collaborative Technologies (CCT), phones, chat, conferencing apps for university

UDF

User-Defined Field

UHC

aka SHC (Student Health Center), University Health Center

UOCloud

University of Oregon's VMware infrastructure for virtual servers, also known as ESXi.

UOFM

University of Oregon Fire Marshal's Office, part of Safety and Risk Services

UOPA

University of Oregon Police Association (UOPD union)

UOPD

University of Oregon Police Department

USS

User Support Services, a division of the university central IT department

VMS

Video Management Software, like Milestone

VOCDC

Vivian Olum Child Development Center

VPEI

Vice President for Equity and Inclusion

VPFA

Vice President for Finance and Administration

VPRI

Vice President of Research and Innovation

VPSL

Vice President for Student Life

VRF

Variable Refrigerant Flow, system used by BAS

WCC

Work Control Center (CPFM)

WCCMS

Workers' Compensation Claims Management System, aka MicroNiche

Woolley

Knight Campus Annex building, was originally named "Woolley" after the previous owner of the building

WSUS

Windows Server Update Services

WW

WonderWare, a SCADA system