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DU Acronyms
1st-Gen - First-Generation College Student (first in their family to attend college) (See FITIAC)
ACEN - Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (accreditation body for Davenport's Diploma in Practical Nursing programs)
ACES - Achieving Career and Educational Success - a First Year Seminar class (ACES100)
ACM@DU - Davenport chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery
ACOTE - Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (accreditation body of AOTA for some Davenport's Master of Science in Occupational Therapy)
ADA - Americans with Disabilities Act
ADC - Associate Department Chair
ADP - Automatic Data Processing (electronic time card system for hourly staff, paycheck & PTO for all staff)
ALD - Alpha Lambda Delta (National Honor Society for 1st-year students with 3.5 GPA or better)
ALP - Accelerated Learning Program
AMA@DU - Davenport chapter of the American Marketing Association
AOTA - American Occupational Therapy Association
ASPIRE - Student organization for women of color
ASU - Asian Student Union
AUPHA - Association of University Programs in Health Administration (international consortium of graduate and undergraduate health administration programs)
BPA - Davenport chapter of Business Professionals of America (has annual National Leadership Conference competition in business areas)
BSU - Black Student Union
CAAHEP - Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (accreditation body for Davenport's Medical Assisting programs)
CAB - Campus Activities Board
CAE/CD - Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense
CAHIIM - Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (accreditation body for some Davenport health programs)
CBOC - internship partner in Wyoming, VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic (See RNPC)
CCL - Center for Campus Life
CCNE - Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (accreditation body for some Davenport nursing programs)
CDO - Cyber Defense Organization
CEO - Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization
CETL - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
CMBA - Competency-Based MBA
CoAS - Davenport's College of Arts and Sciences
CoB - Davenport's Donald W. Maine College of Business
CoHP - Davenport's College of Health Professions
CoT - Davenport's College of Technology
CoUE - Davenport's College of Urban Education
CPI - Continuous Process Improvement
CRIR - Course Requirements & Instructor Recommendations
CRN - Course Reference Number
CRO - Central Records Office (Registrar)
CSC - Customer Support Center (DU IT support for faculty & staff)
CUE - Davenport's College of Urban Education
CySP - Cybersecurity Scholarship Program from the Department of DefenseDA
DAAPP - Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program
DC - Department Chair (supervises Associate Department Chairs)
DECA - (formerly Distributive Education Clubs of America) a management/marketing student organization that helps prepare emerging leaders
DEI - Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
EAP - Employee Assistance Program
EFC - Expected Family Contribution
FAFSA - Free Application for Federal Student Aid
FERPA - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FTIAC - First Time In Any College (See 1st-Gen)
FOL - Foundations of Learning
FUSE Club - Future Urban Stem Educators
FYE - First Year Experience
GIC - Global & Intercultural Competence (one of the Excellence System's learning outcomes)
Grad Cert - Graduate Certificate
GREAT - Great Customer Service Acronym (Greet, Respond, Exceed expectations, Actively Listening, Thanking)
GSO - Global Student Organization
HLC - Higher Learning Commission (Accrediting body for Davenport University)
HSPPO - Health and Science Pre-Professional Organization
IACBE - International Accreditation Council for Business Education (Accrediting body for some of Davenport's business programs)
ISaAC - Information Security and Assurance Center
IPEx - Institute for Professional Excellence
IRB - Institutional Review Board
ISaAC - Information Security and Assurance Center
KAP - Key Action Plan
KPI - Key Performance Indicators
LS@DU - Legal Students @ Davenport University
LSU - Latinx Student Union
NPD - New Program Development
NSLS - National Society of Leadership & Success
OER - Open Educational Resources
Online+ - four format options: on-demand, livestream, flex, and blended
OPE - Office of Performance Excellence (Training)
PDC - Pre-Designed Course - a course template for the Global Campus classes
PDCA - Plan - Do - Check - Act (Process improvement tools)
PI - Process Improvement
PIC - Process Intake Cycle (submission of projects for Process Improvement)
PLA - Prior Learning Assessment
PTO - Paid Time Off
QM - Quality Matters (a certification for a standard of course design that Davenport has adapted and is slowly applying to all classes)
RNPC Grant - Registered Nurse in Primary Care grant offered in partnership with CBOC
RSO - Registered Student Organizations on Engage
RTV - Real-Time Virtual (Former name of the Livestream class delivery method)
SAP - Standards of Academic Progress
SBD - Sigma Beta Delta (Honor Society for students in business, management, & administration)
SEP - DegreePlan's Student Educational Planner
SET - Student Evaluation of Teaching
SFS - Student Financial Services (DU Financial Aid & Bursar support for students)
SFS - Scholarship for Service (Cyber Security - CyberCorps program)
SHIRM@DU - Davenport chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management
SMART - Criteria for creating annual goals in DU's Performance Evaluation System
SNA - Student Nurses Association Lansing , Lettinga , Midland , and Warren
SPSS - Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (Software program)
SSC - Student Support Center (DU IT support for students)
S-STEM - Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
STAIR - DU Values (Serving with Quality, Trustworthiness, Accountability, Innovation & creativity, Respect & inclusion)
SVA - Student Veterans of America
TEACH Grant - Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) grant
TLI - Wynalda Teaching & Learning Institute
UAC - University Advisory Council
UCC - University Curriculum Committee
Undergrad Cert - Undergraduate Certificate
VPN - Virtual Private Network (method DU uses for remote access to the DU network and your university drives from off-campus)
VTO - Volunteer Time Off
YLS - Year Long Scheduling