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TSTC Acronyms

Commonly used abbreviations in the dialect at TSTC

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4DX • The 4 Disciplines of Education, play book for TSTC

6CP • 6 Critical Practices

A

ACGM • Academic Course Guide Manual

AD • Assistant Director

ADA • American with Disabilities Act

A & P Certification • Airframe & Powerplant License, needed for Aircraft Maintenance Instructors

AP • Associate Provost

ARC • Advocacy Resource Center

ATC • Advanced Technical Certificate

ATL • Academic Team Lead

ATO • Authorization to Offer, internal TSTC form used for granting authorization to offer a job to an Applicant

ATP • Authorization to Post, internal TSTC form used for authorization to post a job

AVC • Associate Vice Chancellor

B

BOR • Board of Regents

BP • Human Resources Business Partner


C

CAO • Chief Academic Officer

C.A.R.E • Campus Assessment Response Education

CARF - Canvas Assistance Request Form

CDC • Campus Department Chair

CME • Content Matter Expert

CEE • Campus Enrollment Executive

CEO • Campus Enrollment Officer 

CEU • Continuing Education Unit

CV • Curriculum Vitae, an academic resume or dossier

D

DA • Director of Alignment

DC • Dual Credit

DNA • Data and Analytics

DOE • Department of Education 

E

EAD • Employee Appreciation Day

EAP • Employee Assistance Program

EASI • TSTC’s core values of Excellence, Accountability, Service, and Integrity 

EEO • Equal Employment Opportunity

ELD • E-Learning Day

ELPT • Electric Power & Control Technology

ERS • Employee Retirement System

F

FA • Financial Aid

FAFSA • Free Application for Federal Student Aid

FCS • Faculty Credentialing Specialist

FCVF • Faculty Credentialing Verification Form

FDC • Faculty Development Course

FERPA • Family Education Rights and Privacy Act

FLP • Family Leave Pool

FML • Family Medical Leave

FSA • Flexible Spending Account

FT • Full Time

FY • Fiscal Year

G

H

HR • Human Resources

HRLOD • Human Resource Learning & Organizational Development

HRBP • Human Resources Business Partner

HRSS • Human Resources Shared Services 

HSA • Health Savings Account

I

IBC • Industrial Based Certification

IBM • Instructional Business Manager, supervisors of faculty

ICP • Incident Command Post 

ID • Instructional Designer

IER • Institutional Effectiveness and Research

ISD • Independent School District

ITC • Industrial Technology Center

IT • Information Technology

J

JAC • Justification for Alternative Credentialing

K

KSA • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

KPI • Key Performance Indicator


L

L&D • Learning and Development

LGV • Longevity

LiL • Linked in Learning

LMS • Learning Management System

LRC • Learning Resource Center

M

MBTI • Myers Briggs Type Indicator

MAARS  • Migrant Academic Achievement Residential Summer

MEME • Multiple Entrance Multiple Exit

MLA • Manager Leadership Academy

MO • Minute Order

MOU • Memorandum of Understanding

N

O

OCR • Office of Civil Rights

OIT • Office of Information Technology

OKR • Objectives and Key Results 

OLL • Online Learning

ORP • Optional Retirement Plan 

OSA • Occupational Skills Award

OSP • Office of Sponsored Programs

P

PBE • Performance-Based Education

PIP • Performance Improvement Plan

PT • Part Time

PTL • Program Team Lead 

PTK • Phi Theta Kappa

Q

QEP • Quality Enhancement Plan

QLE • Qualifying Life Event

R

RACI 2.0 • Responsibility, Accountability, Consulting and Informed matrix, a responsibility assignment chart that maps out every task, milestone or key decision involved in completing a project

RDA • Records Destruction Authorization

ROI • Return on Investment

RR • Rights & Responsibilities

RRS • Records Retention Schedule

S

SACSCOC • Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, an organization that grants our accreditation with an audit every 5 years

SDC • Statewide Department Chair

SGA • Student Government Association

SLO •  Student Learning Objectives

SLP • Sick Leave Pool

SME • Subject Matter Expert

SORM • State Office of Risk Management

SOS • Statewide Operating Standard

STAR • Statewide TSTC Awards & Recognition

SWOT • Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threat Analysis

T

TEACH • Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002

TEEX • The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service

TDA • Tax Deferred Account

THECB • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board 

TIX • Title IX, federal mandate prohibiting gender discrimination 

TLA • Teaching Lab Assistant

TracDat • Online Web Based software program, software that allows us to collect, track and report out on Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) and program review requests and recommendations

TRS • Teacher Retirement System

TSTC • Texas State Technical College

TWC • Texas Workforce Commission

U

USERRA • Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights ACT

V

VAWA • Violence Against Women’s Act

VC • Vice Chancellor

VPSL • Vice President Student Learning

W

WECM • Workforce Education Course Manual

WIG • Wildly Important Goal

X

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Z

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