Glossary

Academic Affairs Committee, a standing committee of the college senate

Association of American Colleges and Universities

American Association of State Colleges and Universities, a national organization.

All but dissertation

Advancing Cultural Competency Certificate. A local program of about 20 hours offered to faculty and staff members.

American Council on Education, a national organization, known for its ACE Fellows program.

American Chemical Society

The Association of Council Members and College Trustees. ACT seeks to promote increased Council effectiveness, constructive government relations and advocacy for quality public higher education through meetings, an annual conference, newsletters and this newly created website.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages - Our Languages and Literatures Department uses ACTFL services to test oral proficiency of adolescence education majors in Spanish or French

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Academic Experience Planning Team

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Federation of Teachers union (an AFL-CIO union)

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Adjunct Lecturer Evaluation Report

Accreditation Liaison Officer

Alcohol and other drugs (program through Geneseo health education office)

Assurance of Learning

Access Opportunity Programs. An umbrella term for academic support services programs providing supplementary advisement and other forms of academic support to educationally disadvantaged students admitted to the College.

Academic Program Assessment Committee

Academic Peer Mentor

Academic Program Review

The New York State Law Enforcement Officers Union

Geneseo’s annual assessment conference

Administrative Services Unit

Academic Year

Bachelor of Arts

Biology course prefix

Black, Indiginous, and People of Color

Board of Trustees - The SUNY system governing board

Budget Priorities Committee - A standing committee of the College

Bachelor of Professional Studies

Bachelor of Science

College Assessment Council. A standing committee of the College, the CAC oversees, collects, and responds to assessment of all units of the College.

Council for the Accreditation for Educator Preparation

Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education. The College participates in the CAOCHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey.

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (2020)

Campus Auxiliary Services.  A campus-based, not-for-profit corporation with which the College contracts to provide food service, catering, and other related services to the campus community.  CAS is operated under SUNY System guidelines for auxiliary service corporations.

Center for Digital Learning

Common Data Set

Curricular Design Working Group

Chief Executive Officer

Chemistry course prefix

Center for Integrative Learning

Chief Information Officer

Computing & Information Technology.  CIT is the principal technology support unit for the entire College.  CIT reports to the Provost.

Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education

Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges.  A national consortium of small, selective public liberal arts colleges formed for the purpose of promoting excellence in undergraduate liberal arts education and the service mission of public colleges.  Geneseo has been a member of COPLAC since 1994.

Certified Public Accountant

Civil Service Employees Association. The official bargaining unit for SUNY clerical and maintenance staff.

Content Specialty Tests used by the School of Education

Coronavirus-19 Incident Leadership Team

Dean of Academic Planning and Advising

Dormitory Authority of the State of New York

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

AKA DFW rates, refers to non passing grades in courses. Geneseo uses the E grade instead of an F for failing grade.

Diversity and Inclusion Community Educators workshops

Diagnostic Undergraduate Chemistry Knowledge, a standardized exam offered through the American Chemical Society

EAB is the company that created and supports the “Navigate” Early Alert/Advice System.

Educating All Students, offered through the School of Education

Economics course prefix

Educational Opportunity Program; part of AOP

Emotional Support Animals

“Exploratory” course prefix

Committee on Faculty Affairs, a College Senate standing committee

Free Application for Federal Student Aid

Frequently Asked Questions

Facility Condition Index

Financial Disclosure Statement

Facilities Master Plan

Friends of Recreation, Conservation, and Environmental Stewardship

Faculty Personnel Committee

Fiscal Year

Five-Year Capital Plan

First Year Experience

Geneseo Scholarships in STEM

Committee on Graduate Academic Affairs, a College Senate standing committee

Geneseo Campus Activities Board

General Education Advisory Committee

General Education Requirements; SUNY uses this acronym.

Geneseo Late Knight, student activities generally Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 7pm to 1am.

Geneseo Learning Outcomes for Baccalaureate Education

Geneseo Online Employment System

Geneseo Organization for Leadership Development

Grade point average

Geneseo Points of Support Guides

Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement, and Talent

Geneseo Reaching Out to Women and under-represented groups in STEM

Geological sciences course prefix

Graduate Student Employee Union

Higher Education Data Sharing

Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund

Higher Education Research Institute

History course prefix

Humphrey Nature Center in Letchworth State Park

Integrative & Applied Learning

Internal Control Coordinator

Internal Controls Officer

Internal Control Program

Information Delivery Services

Institutional Effectiveness

Institutional Effectiveness Plan

Income Fund Reimbursable - Self-sustaining accounts to support the campus mission

Interdepartmental.  The College’s prefix for courses that either are taught by faculty from various departments or have content residing outside the discipline(s) of any one department.

Intellectual property

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System

Intellectual and Practical Skills

Institutional Research

Inter-residence Council

Inventory of Registered Programs

Internal Revenue Service

Institutional Services Unit

Joint Commision on Public Ethics

Liberal Education and America’s Promise

Liberal Education and America’s Promise Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - a widely used green building rating system

Lecturer Evaluation Report

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer

Living-learning Communities

Mathematics course prefix

Management Confidential. The SUNY classification for non-union administrators, including the President, the Provost and Vice Presidents, and other high-level unit directors.

Mental Health Advisory Committee

Measuring Information Service Outcomes - survey used to evaluate computing and information needs.

Multicultural Organization Space for Activities, Inclusion, and Collaboration

Memorandum of Understanding.  The final document of the SUNY-System-initiated campus mission reviews, 1997-2000. Each campus developed an MOU with System Administration, spelling out major priorities and expectations for the next several years.

Master of Science

National Association of State Boards of Accountancy

National Science Foundation

New Student Programs

National Survey of Student Engagement; Geneseo participates in the NSSE survey every three years.

New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association

New York State Education Department

New York State Teacher Certification Examinations™

New York State United Teachers union

Office of Accessibility Services

Office of Diversity and Equity

Office of Institutional Research

Office of International Student Services.  Established in 1999 to recruit, advise, and oversee services for international students,  the OISS reports to the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Services.

Orientation Leader

Office of Multicultural Programs and Services

Oral Proficiency Interview  - Our Languages and Literatures Department uses ACTFL services to test oral proficiency of adolescence education majors in Spanish or French.

Operating system

Operational Services Unit

Public Employees Federation

Personnel Evaluation Report

Public Employee Relations Board

Performance Improvement Fund

Point and Click. PNC is the product the College uses for an Electronic Health Records/Practice Management System.

Periodic Program Review. The five-year interim re-accreditation process and report required by Middle States. Geneseo’s most recent PPR was completed in 2016-2017.

Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion and Growth

Periodic Review Report

Professional, Scientific, and Technical bargaining unit

Psychology course prefix

Resident Assistant

Responsible Conduct of Research

Research Foundation exists to serve the State University of New York (SUNY) by providing essential administrative services that enable SUNY faculty to focus their efforts on the education of students and the performance of life-changing research across a wide range of disciplines including medicine, engineering, physical sciences, energy, computer science, and social sciences.

Residence Hall Capital Plan

Real World Geneseo

Division of Student and Campus Life

Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Student Association. The SA is the undergraduate student government.

Committee on Student Affairs

Student-Athlete Mentors

Student Emergency Loan Fund

SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association. SGAA is the official alumni association of the College.

Supplemental Instruction, Supplemental Instructor

School of Business

School of Education

Student Opinion of Faculty Instruction. The College’s local instrument for student evaluation of faculty. Policies require faculty to administer SOFIs to virtually all classes every semester. The Office of Institutional Research compiles and reports comparative results.  A sample SOFI form is included in Volume II, Appendices.

“Students on Track” Financial Aid tool

Sexual and interpersonal violence Prevention And Response Course

Strategic Planning Group. A standing committee of the College, composed of faculty, staff, students, and the division Vice Presidents, the SPG directs the planning process for the College. The Provost serves as ex officio chair of the SPG.

See TRiO SSS

SUNY tutoring consortium offering free online tutoring to students in participating institutions (Geneseo “contributes” an undergraduate Chemistry tutor)

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

STEM Scholarships

State University Construction Fund. A public benefit corporation serving as the construction agent for academic buildings, dormitories, and other facilities at State University of New York (SUNY) institutions. The fund oversees construction, acquisition, reconstruction, and rehabilitation or improvement of such facilities.

State University of New York. The term refers to the central administration (SUNY System Administration) and its affiliated campuses.

SUNY Student Association

The thirteen SUNY liberal arts colleges (formerly Colleges of Arts and Science and occasionally referenced as A&S institutions) which focus primarily on undergraduate education. Geneseo is classified among this group and views the other university colleges as its primary peer institutional group for the purposes of comparisons and assessments within SUNY.

SUNY General Education Requirement. SUNY system requirements for general education core.

State University Tuition Reimbursement Account

Teaching Assistant

Tuition Assistance Program

Teacher Education Resource Center

Teaching and Learning Center

Transitional Opportunity Program, which is part of AOP

TRiO Student Support Services

Committee on Undergraduate Curricula, a College Senate standing committee

University Faculty Senate. A College Senate standing committee; UFS serves as a resource on governance for the University. It serves as a deliberative body on educational policies for the SUNY System.

Committee on Undergraduate Academic Policies, Core, and Review

University Police Department

Under-represented minorities

United University Professions, the national union of faculty and professional staff.

See LEAP VALUE

Vice President

Virtual private network

SUNY Geneseo's radio station

Wildly Important Goal (Sean Covey, The 4 Disciplines of Execution)

Writing Learning Center

Week of Welcome (or Weekend of Welcome)

Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics