Academic Acronyms

1. ACCJC - Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges
2. ATE - Advanced Technology Education
3. BACC - Bay Area Community College Consortium
4. C3MS - Curriculum Management System
5. CCC0 RFA's
6. CCSSE Community College Survey of Student Engagement
7. CL-SLOs
8. COE -
9. CTE
10. DBA - Doing business as.
11. EMT
12. ESMP
13. ETUDES - Easy To Use Distant Education System
14. FOAP - Fund Organization Account Program
15. FTEF - Full Time Equivalent Faculty - A standardized method for computing faculty load.
16. FTES - Full Time Equivalent Students - The mechanism used by state to report student attendance for apportionment purpose. Calculations for this measure depend on the course type.
17. FTP - File Transfer Protocol ( that the Police)
    • Fuck that Puto
18. FUBR - Fucked Up Beyond Repair
19. IP&B - Integrated Planning and Budget
20. NSF - accepts applications for grants up to $900,000
21. OPC - Operations Planning Committee
22. PaRC - Planning and Resource Counsel
23. PEST Analysis - Political, Economic, Social, and Technological factors
24. PGC - Performance Goals Committee
25. PL-SLOs
26. POS - Piece of S--t (technical term)
27. PR - Program Review
28. PRC - Program Review Committee
29. RSVP - Respondez-vous Sil Vous Plait
30. RTFM - Read the Fine Manual
31. SLOs
32. SOP - Standard Operating Procedure
33. STFU - Shut The Fuck UP
34. SWOT analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
35. TCB - Taking Care of Business.
36. TOP Taxonomy of Programs
37. TracDat - Manages SLO data
38. VOR - Student Volunteer of Record
39. VP's - Vice Presidents
40. WAH - Work at Home
41. WSCH - Weekly Student Contact Hours - Weekly Student Contact Hours per Full Time Equivalent Faculty = Total FTES x 525 ÷ 17.5 ÷ FTEF. This calculation measures the efficiency of the student to faculty contacts. A higher result indicates more students served by fewer faculty hours; a lower result indicates fewer students served. This measure must be considered in relation to the type of class; some courses must meet other requirements that lowers the student to faculty measure. For example, courses with limited enrollments due to regulations such as nursing clinical classes (limited to 12 students) will have a lower WSCH than a course taught using large group instruction.
42. WSCH/FTEF RATIO - A ratio of the number of students enrolled per work effort of instructional faculty. This ratio can be measured on a class section by class section basis, on a departmental basis, a college-wide basis or a District-wide basis. This ratio represents a “class-size” measure for the District.
43. WTF - What the #%$^
44. WWG - Workforce Workgroup