College of Arts and Sciences
Indiana State University Stalker Hall 2nd Floor Terre Haute, IN 47809 | 812-237-2411
Common Acronyms
| AAC&U | Association of American Colleges and Universities | |
| AASCU | American Association of State Colleges and Universities | |
| AAC | The College of Arts and Sciences - Academic Affairs Committee | |
| ACALOG | Academic Catalog. Digital academic catalog management system. | |
| CAAC | Indiana State University Faculty Senate Curriculum and Academic Affairs Committee | |
| CAPS | Curriculum Approval Procedures Manual for Undergraduate and Graduate courses and programs (provides guidelines and identifies procedures for the curriculum process) | |
| CAS | College of Arts and Sciences | |
| CEP | Correctional Education Program | |
| CIP | The State of Indiana's list of Academic Degree Programs Inventory. | |
| COGNOS | A reporting tool for Academic Management Reports. | |
| CUR | Council on Undergraduate Research | |
| EAP | Executive, Administrative, and Professional classification (one of three employee groups on campus). | |
| EOS | End of Semester | |
| FTE | Full time equivalent (may be used to refer to a student or to an employee). | |
| LAPS | Literary, Artistic, and Philosophical Studies. Literature and public life liberal studies core area definitions and course listings | |
| LEAP | Liberal Education and America's Promise. A ten-year old advocacy and campus action campaign to expand the understanding of the importance of liberal education on campus. | |
| NSSE | National Survey of Student Engagement. ISU data is compared with national data. http://irt2.indstate.edu/home/index.htm | |
| OSPIRE | Office of Strategic Planning, Institutional Research and Testing http://irt2.indstate.edu/home/index.htm | |
| OTO | One Time Only pay form | |
| Project PRE | Partnering to Reform Education is the $4.91 million dollar grant we received from the Department of Education to reform teacher education. | |
| PDS | Professional Development Schools. A concept which replaced the lab school. K-12 Schools that have agreed to "join" us sign a contract, receive money and expert advise, and host our students for early field experiences. Our PDS partnership is national award winning. | |
| SOGS | School of Graduate Studies | |
| SCH | Student Credit Hour (one student enrolled in one credit hour). | |
| SPF | Special Purpose Faculty (formerly one-year temporary appointment faculty). | |
| TAFFY | Task Force on First Year Membership | |
| URC | University Research Committee |