A Complete Record Of Names You Might Like In Straightforward Terms.
Acronym List
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | XYZ
| A | |
| AA | Author's Alterations |
| AAC | Academic Advising Center |
| ABO | Auxiliary Unit Budget Officer |
| ACM | Accounting Code Manual |
| ACU | Office of Animal Resources (Animal Care Unit) |
| AD&D | Accidental Death and Dismemberment |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| AFSCME | American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees |
| AGEP | Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate, Iowa |
| AIS | Administrative Information Systems, ITS |
| ALSD | Alert LISTSERV System Directory |
| AMA | American Marketing Association |
| AP | Advanced Placement |
| AP/PO | Accounts Payable and Purchasing |
| AP-PO Web Apps | Accounts Payable and Purchasing Web Applications |
| AR | Accounts Receivable |
| AS | Accounting Services |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASHRAE | American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers |
| ASL | American Sign Language |
| ASP | African Studies Program |
| AUW | Associated University Women |
| B | |
| BAECP-FWP | Burlington Atomic Energy Commission Plant - Former Worker Program |
| BAIS | Bachelor of Arts in Interdepartmental Studies |
| BC44 | Annual Budget Comparison report |
| BO | University Business Office |
| BS | Balance Sheet |
| D | |
| DACT | Departmental Account |
| DCS | Design and Construction Services |
| DDDEO | Deans, Directors and Departmental Executive Officers |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol |
| DHHS | US Department of Health and Human Services |
| DI | The Daily Iowan |
| DOT | Department of Transportation |
| DPI | Dots per Inch |
| DPS | Department of Public Safety |
| DR | Debit |
| DSAC | Dean's Student Advisory Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| DSN | Data Source Name |
| DSP | Division of Sponsored Programs |
| E | |
| EARS | Effort Activity Reporting System (same as PAR) |
| ECATS | Emergency Department Consultation and Triage System |
| Edeposit | Electronic Deposit, Cashier¬s Office |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EHS | Environmental Health & Safety |
| e-forms | Electronic Forms |
| EHSRC | Environmental Health Sciences Research Center |
| EIC | Earned Income Credit |
| ELR | Employee and Labor Relations |
| EMSLRC | Emergency Medical Services Learning Resources Center |
| ENCIC | Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium |
| EOB | Explanation of Benefits |
| EOC | Emergency Operations Center |
| EOM | End of Month |
| EOY | End of Year |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| ESL | English as a Second Language |
| ETR | Employee Time Record |
| ESG | European Studies Group |
| EXP | Expenditure or Expense |
| G | |
| G/P | Grant/Program |
| GAO | Grant Accounting Office |
| GCP | General Contracts Program, Office of the State Archaeologist |
| GHSP | Global Health Studies Program |
| GIS | Geographic Information Services |
| GIS | Guided Independent Study, see Online Degree and Certificate Programs |
| GL | General Ledger |
| GL:M | General Ledger Millenium |
| GLBTAU | Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied Union |
| GLDSS | General Ledger Decision Support System |
| GPA | Grade Point Average |
| GrantDSS | Grant Decision Support System |
| GTCF | Gene Targeting Core Facility Lab |
| H | |
| HAP | Highway Archchaeology Program, Office of the State Archaeologist |
| HAZMAT | Johnson County Hazardous Material Team |
| HPO | Health Protection Office, see Environmental Health & Safety |
| HR | Human Resources |
| HRDSS | Human Resources Decision Support System |
| HRIS | Human Resources Information System |
| HRMSF | High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Facility |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language for Web Publishing |
| J | |
| JPEC | John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center |
| K |
| L | |
| LACMRERS | Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station |
| LASP | Latin American Studies Program |
| LCAT | Library Catalog (See InfoHawk) |
| LCUA | Levitt Center for University Advancement |
| LSA | Literature, Science & the Arts, Interdisciplinary Program in |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| LOA | Leave of Absence |
| LPI | Lines per Inch |
| LSO | Local Small Order |
| LWIS | Libraries-Wide Information System, University Libraries |
| M | |
| M3LL | Millenium General Ledger |
| MBA | MBA Programs |
| MCJA | Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology |
| MBTI | Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator |
| MDAC | Microsoft Data Access Components |
| MFK | Master File Key |
| MIP | Mathematics Incentive Program |
| MM | Materials Management |
| MMLA | Midwest Modern Language Association |
| MS1 | Management Summary -- Organizational Unit report |
| MS1A | Management Summary -- Organizational Unit report |
| MS2A | Management Summary -- Departmental report |
| MS2C | Management Summary -- Departmental report |
| MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet |
| MSTP | Medical Scientist Training Program |
| MTDC | Modified Total Direct Cost |
| N | |
| NACUBO | National Association of College and University Business Officers |
| NAEB | National Association of Educational Buyers |
| NAL | Novell Application Launcher |
| NASA | National Aeronautic and Space Administration |
| NCVS | National Center for Voice and Speech |
| NEA | National Endowment for the Arts |
| NEH | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| NIOSH | National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
| NMITA | Neogene Marine Invertebrates of Tropical America |
| NSC | Network/Security Contact, Departmental |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NWP | Nonfiction
Writing
Program |
| O | |
| O&M | Operations and Maintenance |
| OACT | Organizational Account |
| OASIS | Online Access System for Information Sources (Replaced with InfoHawk) |
| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity |
| OCRME | Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education |
| OFSA | Office for Study Abroad |
| OIES | Office of International Education and Services (See International Programs) |
| OISS | Office of International Students and Scholars |
| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing |
| OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
| OPL | Operator Performance Laboratory |
| OPM | Out-of-Pocket Maximum |
| ORG | Organizational Unit |
| OSA | Office of the State Archaeologist |
| OSFA | Office of Student Financial Aid |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| OSL | Office of Student Life |
| OSTC | Optical Science Technology Center |
| P | |
| P & S | Professional and Scientific |
| PAR | Personnel Activity Reporting system (same as EARS) |
| PayCV | Payroll Change Voucher |
| PCV | Procurement Card Voucher |
| PDQ | Position Description Questionnaire |
| PEOPLE | Philosophies and Ethics of Politics, Law, and Economics, Interdisciplinary Program Certificate |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PICS | Project for International Communication Studies |
| PMO | Property Management Office |
| PO | Purchase Order |
| POP | Point of Presence |
| POROI | Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry |
| PS | People Soft |
| Q |
| R | |
| R.A.D. | Rape Aggression Defense System |
| RAIN | Resident Assistant Information Network |
| RAM | Random Access Memory |
| Req | Requisition |
| ResNet | Residence Services Network Service |
| REV | Revenue |
| RFI | Request for Information |
| RFP | Request for Proposal |
| RFQ | Request for Quotation |
| ROM | Read Only Memory |
| RVAP | Rape Victim Advocacy Program |
| S | |
| SA1 | Statement of Account - Cash |
| SA2 | Statement of Account - Accrual |
| SAC | Student Activity Center, IMU |
| SASP | South Asian Studies Program |
| SBA | Small Business Administration |
| SDRC | Scholarly Digital Resources Center, University Libraries |
| SEIU | Service Employees International Union |
| SGO | Second Grade Only |
| SHIP | Student Health Insurance Plan |
| SGRE | Summary of Grant Receipts and Expenditures report |
| SHRM | Society for Human Resource Management |
| SLA | Student Loan Accounting |
| SLAC | Subledger Account |
| SLID | Subledger ID |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| SRA | Supplemental Retirement Annuity |
| SWAT | Study, Workshops and Tutoring |
| T | |
| TAG | Merit Referral Request form |
| TAPE | Teaching Assistants Preparation in English |
| TASD | Telephone Alert System Directory |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDS | Transaction Detail Statement report |
| TEP | Teacher Education Program |
| TIAA-CREF | Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund |
| TIC | Technology Innovation Center |
| TSB | Targeted Small Business Program |
| U | |
| U-BILL | University Statement of Accounts Receivable |
| UBIT | Unrelated Business Income Tax |
| UCS | University Counseling Service |
| UCR | Usual, Customary and Reasonable charges |
| UE/COGS | United Electrical and Machine Workers Union/Campaign to Organize Graduate Students |
| UEHC | University Employee Health Clinic |
| UG | Undergraduate |
| UHL | University Hygienic Lab, see State Hygienic Laboratory at The University of Iowa |
| UIAA | Alumni Association |
| UICHR | UI Center for Human Rights |
| UIDPS | UI Department of Public Safety |
| UIEDP | UI Employee Discount Program |
| UIHC | University of Iowa Health Care |
| UIHC | University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics |
| UIF | UI Foundation |
| UIRF | UI Research Foundation |
| UIRIS | University of Iowa Research Information System |
| ULC | University Life Centers |
| UNI | University of Northern Iowa |
| UOM | Unit of Measure |
| UPO | Undergraduate Programs Office |
| URP | Urban and Regional Planning |
| USDA | US Department of Agriculture |
| USDEd | US Department of Education |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
| USPHS | US Public Health Service |
| USPS | United States Postal Service |
| UWR | University Wide Report |
| V | |
| vBNS | very high performance Backbone Network Service |
| VPFO | Vice President for Finance and Operations |
| VPFUS | Vice President for Finance and University Services-- changed May 2003 to Vice President for Finance and Operations (see above). |
| W | |
| WebCT | World Wide Web Course Tools |
| WebCV | Web-based Change Voucher Application |
| WIAT | Work Injury Accommodation Team |
| WISE | Women in Science and Engineering |
| WRAC | Womens Resource & Action Center |
| X,Y,Z | |
| YTD | Year to Date |