Glossary

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AAUDE - Association of American Universities Data Exchange

AAUP - American Association of University Professors

ACE - American Council on Education

ACP - Advanced College Project

ACT - American College Test

AED - Academy for Educational Development

AHD- Academic Honors Diploma

AIR - Association for Institutional Research

ALC - Academic Leadership Cabinet (chief IU academic policy group)

AOR - Appropriations Operating Request

APPC - Academic Policy and Procedures Committee (IUPUI only)

AQIP - Academic Quality Improvement Program

ARL - Association of Research Libraries

BCSSE - Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement

Beginners - Degree seeking undergraduate students enrolled in the fall semester that began this semester or began in either of the preceding summer sessions

Census Date - Date at which enrollments are “frozen” for reporting purposes. Typically reflects the end of the first week of classes and/or the end of the drop/add period for course registrations to allow for full refunds.

CGS - Center for Goverment Studies

CIC - Committee on Institutional Cooperation

CIP Code - Classification of Instructional Program. A six-digit code in the form xx.xxxx that identifies instructional program specialties within educational institutions. Click here for more information on CIP Codes.

Class Standing - The level equivalent with the number of hours completed, i.e. sophomore, senior

Cohort - Federal definition of a cohort used in compliance reporting for retention and graduation rates: A degree-seeking undergraduate who is enrolled in the fall term who either matriculated in that fall term or in any one of the previous summer sessions. A group of individuals having a common factor (such as age or class membership).

Common Data Set (CDS) - This initiative is a collaborative effort among data providers in the higher education community and publishers, such as Peterson's, U.S. News and World Report and the Thompson Corporation. The Common Data Set is available for each campus of Indiana University and includes information on admission, student life, financial aid, faculty/student ratio, enrollment, graduation and retention.

COPSL - Community Outreach & Parnerships in Service Learning

Core 40 - The state of Indiana's mandated education expectations for high school students. All students who wish to attend public colleges and universities in Indiana must meet the curriculum requirements of Core 40. For more information see: http://www.indiana.edu/~iuadmit/freshmen/as_core40.shtml

CSRDE - Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange

CUPA - College & University Personnel Administration

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Degree-Seeking Student - Students enrolled in courses for credit who are recognized by the institution as seeking a degree or formal award.

DOE - Department of Education

Educational Services Rendered - The services provided to students at our split mission campuses that reflect activity outside of the IU offerings, i.e. State Wide Technology, Purdue teachings.

Equity in Athletics - The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act requires co-educational institutions of postsecondary education that participate in a Title IV, federal student financial assistance program, and have an intercollegiate athletic program, to prepare an annual report to the Department of Education on athletic participation, staffing, and revenues and expenses, by men's and women's teams.

Exclusion - Students who are eliminated from cohort tracking studies for accepted reasons, i.e. death, military service.

Fact Book -The institution’s compendium of facts and figures regarding budget, enrollments, degrees, faculty and staff, facilities, etc.

First Professional Degree - An award in one of the following fields: Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.), Law (L.L.B. or J.D.), Medicine (M.D.), or Optometry (O.D.).

FISAP -Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate. You might take a short tutorial if you would like more information.

FTB - Full Time Beginner. The Full Time Beginner is also designated as part of a cohort.

FTE - Full-Time Equivalent Students is a measure derived from the credit loads of students.  It can be calculated on a semester or annual basis.  For undergraduates, total credits are divided by 15 for the semester measure and 30 for the annual measure.  For graduate students (master’s, doctoral, and non-degree), the divisors are 12 for semester and 24 for the annual measure.  For graduate-Professional students (medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, optometry), Indiana University uses the undergraduate divisors (15/30) but the Commission for Higher Education employs the graduate divisors (12/24).

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Gift Aid - All aid not requiring repayment, i.e. scholarships and grants.

GRE - Graduate Record Examinations

Heads/Headcount- The count of enrolled students, does not include any duplicates, which is IU specific.

ICHE - Indiana Commission for Higher Education

IER - Instructional Effort Reports

Institutional Gift Aid -Gift aid under the control of the institution

Intercampus Mobility - Transferring to other campuses within the Indiana University system.

IPAS - Indiana Project for Academic Success

IPDAG - Indiana Public Data Advisory Group

IPEDS - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. A set of key federal surveys which produces the only central national database of enrollment statistics, institutional revenues and expenditures, tuition, faculty salary averages and other key indicators.

IW - Intensive Writing

Level - Refers to the level of the program, i.e. undergraduate, professional, graduate

Matriculant- (NEW) degree seeking student new to IU, change in "career", i.e. from undergraduate to graduate and professional, while at IU, would be a new matriculant.

MSW - Master of Social Work

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NASULGC - National Association of State Universities & Land Grant Colleges

NCES - National Center for Education Statistics

NSF - National Science Foundation

NSSE - National Survey of Student Engagement

OAR - Operating Appropriations Request

PEDS - Professional Education Data Survey

Professional Degree - An award in one of the following fields: Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)
Law (L.L.B., J.D.), Medicine (M.D.) or Optometry (O.D.)

PULS - Principals of Undergraduate Learning

Retention - Re-enrollment in Indiana University or receipt of a degree. Also known as persistence.

Special Graduate - Non-degree seeking student enrolled in graduate level courses.

Special Undergraduate - Non-degree seeking student enrolled in undergraduate level courses.

Veteran's benefits - Total benefit under all federal Veteran's Benefit Programs including VA Contributory Benefits, GI Bill, and Dependent's Educational Assistance.

Work Study – Federal program matching employer’s wages.