ACRONYMS AND NAMES - Coastline Community College
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
50% Law: California Education Code Section 84362(d): 50% or more of money spent in a community college will be spent on classroom instruction.
AA: Associate of Arts degree
AACC: American Association of Community Colleges
AAC&U: Association of American Colleges and Universities
AANAPISI: Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institution
AAPI: Asian American and Pacific Islander
AARA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
AA-T: Associate of Arts Transfer degree
AAWCC: American Association for Women in Community Colleges
AAUP: American Association of University Professors
ABA: American Bar Association
ABI: Acquired Brain Injury (formerly Traumatic Head Injury)
AB1725: California Assembly Bill 1725: Community College Reform Act
ACCCA: Association of California Community College Administrators
ACCE: Association of Community and Continuing Education
ACCJC: Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
ACE: American Council on Education--ACE puts out a guide to assist colleges in determining the number of units military training courses are worth
ACTFL: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
ACTLA: Association of Colleges for Tutoring and Learning Assistance
ADA: Americans with Disabilities Act
ADT: Associate Degree for Transfer
AEA: Adult Education Alliance
AI: Artificial Intelligence
ALO: Accreditation Liaison Officer
ALT: Accessible Learning Technology (assuring that the disabled can access)
AMATYC: American Mathematics Association for Two-Year Colleges
AO: Accreditation Officer
AoE: Area of Emphasis
AP: Administrative Procedure
AP: Advanced Placement
APA: Annual Program Assessment
APA: American Psychological Association
APACT: Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Program for Advancing Completion & Transfer
APAHE: Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education
API: Asian/Pacific Islander
ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
ARCC: Accountability Reporting for [California] Community Colleges [score card]
AS: Associate of Science degree
ASACC: American Student Association of Community Colleges
ASCCC: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
ASCSU: Academic Senate for California State Universities
ASG: Associated Student Government at Coastline (formerly Student Advisory Council)
ASSIST: Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer
AS-T: Associate of Science Transfer degree
ASW: Administrative Services Wing
BAT: Behavioral Assessment Team
BDATS: Business Development & Technology Solutions (was OLIT)
BDP: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program
BERTT: Business Emergency Response Team Training
BESAC: Business Education Statewide Advisory Committee
BOG: Board of Governors [for California Community Colleges]
BP: Board Policy
BSI: Basic Skills Initiative
CACC: (formerly CCJCA)
CAFYES: Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Education Support
CAHSEE: California High School Exit Exam
CAI: Common Assessment Initiative
CalPASS: California Partnership for Achieving Student Success
CalPERS: California Public Employees Retirement System
CalSACC: California Student Association of Community Colleges
CalSTRS: California State Teachers Retirement System
CalWORKs: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility for Kids
Campus SaVE Act: Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act
CAN: California Articulation Number
CAP: California Acceleration Project
CAPED: California Association on Postsecondary Education and Disability
CAR: Conference Authorization Request
CARE: Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education
CATESOL: California Association of Teachers of English Speakers of Other Languages
CBE: Credit by Exam
CCA: Coast Community College Association (part-time faculty union in CCCD)
CCA/CTA/NEA:Coast Community College Association/California Teachers
Association/National Education Association
CCAOE: California Community College Association of Occupational Education
CCAR: College & Career Access Partnerships
CCC: California Community Colleges
CCCCO: California Community College Chancellor’s Office
CCC/CFT: a statewide faculty group
CCCC: Conference on College Composition and Communication
CCCCO: California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
CCCECE: California Community Colleges Early Childhood Educators organization
CCCI: a statewide faculty group
CCCSAT: California Community Colleges Satellite Network
CCLC: Community College League of California
CCLDI: Community College Leadership Development Initiatives
CCMC: Council of College and Military Educators
ccMISc: Consortium of 9 community college districts including Coast to develop
software
CCMPA: California Community College Matriculation Professionals Association
CCMS: Common Course Management System (Statewide choice of a Course Management System)
CCO: Coastline Core Outcomes (College Level Outcomes)
CCPT: California Career Pathways Trust
CCRC: Community College Research Center
CCSS: Common Core State Standards for K-12
CCSSM: Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
CCTC: Coastline College Technology Center
CDCP: Career Development and College Preparation
CDCR: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
CDIIG: Coast District International and Intercultural Grants
CDMA: Coast District Management Association
CDOSL: California Digital Open Source Library
CEPC: California Postsecondary Education Commission
CETA: California Employment Training Act
CFR: Code of Federal Regulations
CFT: California Federation of Teachers
CFE/AFT: Coast Federation of Educators/American Federation of Teachers, Local 1911
CI: Curriculum Inventory (maintained by the State Chancellor’s Office)
C-ID: Course Identification Numbering System
CIM: California Institute for Men
CIO: Chief Instructional Officer
CIP: Classification of Institutional Programs (used to report to Federal Government)
CIS: Computer Information Systems
CLASP: Coastline Art Service-Learning Program
CLASS: California Leadership Alliance for Student Success Initiative
CLEP: College-Level Examination Program
CMC: California Men’s Colony (for example at San Luis Obispo)
CMC3 California Mathematics Council for Community Colleges
CMNCC: Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center
CMS: Course Management System (also known as Learning Management System)
CMTAC: California Mexico Trade Assistance Center (was located at the Coastline’s Huntington Westminster Center)
COA: Cost of Attendance
Coast Learning Systems (formerly Coast Telecourses)
Coastline ROP:Regional Occupation Programs (no relation to Coastline College)
COBOL: COmmon Business-Oriented Language
COBRA: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (18 months of insurance)
CODEC: COding-DECoding
CODIS: Combined DNA Index System
COERC: California Open Education Resources Council (Cheryl Stewart is a member)
COLA: Cost of Living Adjustment ?
COOL: California Open Online Library
COOL4Ed: California Open Online Library for Education
COR: Course Outline of Record
CORE: Consortium on Reading Excellence
COSDL: California Open Source Digital Library
CPB: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
CPI: Crisis Prevention Intervention
CPTED: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
CRAVE: Certificate Rapid Acceleration Virtual Environment
CRISPR: clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats—new technique for editing DNA
CRLP: California Reading and Literature Project
CRN: Course Registration Number
CSA: Customer Service Academy
CSLO: Course Level Student Learning Objectives
CSP: California State Prison
CST: Computer Service Technology
CSU: California State Universities
CTE: Career and Technical Education (Dean at Garden Grove)
CTE: Center for Teaching Excellence
CTF: California Training Facility
CTL: Center for Transformative Learning (formerly Center for Teaching and Learning)
CTO: Cost to Operate
C-TOOLS: Coastline Tutoring On-site and Online Learning System
CVC: California Virtual Campus Project
CWiC: Courseware in Context (Gates Foundation quality framework)
DAAPP: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program
Dallas: Dallas TeleLearning
DANTES: Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support
DAS: Division of Apprenticeship Standards
DBAC: District Budget Advisory Committee
DCC: District Consultation Council (formerly Chancellor’s Council)
DCL: Dear Colleague Letter (warning letter from the Office of Civil Rights of non ADA compliance)
DE: Distance Education
DETAC: Distance Education Technical Advisory Committee
(Chancellor's Office Distance Education Advisory Committee)
DICAST: South Orange County Community College District Digital Innovation Center for the Arts, Science and Technology of the Advanced Technology and Education Park, a new advanced technologies learning environment
DIG: Discipline Input Goup
DIS: Coast District Information Services
DIU: Do it yourself
DIVA: Digital Imaging for the Visual Arts
DDL: Developmentally Delayed Learner
DLSP: Online and On-site Distance Learner Support Program
DoE: Department of Education
DOJ: Department of Justice
DSK District Computer System--DSK is the man's initials who developed it
DSP&S: Disabled Students Programs & Services
DSS: Distributive Student Services
DSST: DANTES Subject Standardization Tests
DVC: Digital Visual Communication
EAB: Coastline’s Educational Advisory Board
EAB: Education Advisory Board (private company hired by GWC and CCC)
EAP: Early Assessment Program
EBUS: Education Bound United States (International High School to College Program)
ECCTYC: English Council of California Two-Year Colleges
ECE: Early Childhood Education
ECHS: Early College High School
EDD: Employment Development Department
EDDM: Every Door Direct Mail
EEA: Educational Employment Agency
EEO: Equal Employment Opportunity
E&IT: Electronic and Information Technology
ELM: Entry Level Mathematics
ENDS: Early Notification Departure Stimulus
EOPS: Extended Opportunity Programs and Services
ESL (English as a Second Language) Tests:
CELT: Comprehensive English Language Test for Learners of English
CELSA: California English Language Structure Assessment
TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language
ESO: Education Service Officer (military)
FACCC: Faculty Association of California Community Colleges
(formerly CJCFA, California Junior College Faculty Association)
FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Student Aid
FANBOYS: the seven coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so
FCC: Federal Communications Commission
FCU: Schools First Federal Credit Union
FDRG: Faculty Discipline Review Group—review C-IDs
FII: Fund for Instructional Improvement (Chancellor’s Office)
Financial Aid Acronyms: DAAPP, COA, COD, FSA, LDA, NSC, NSLDS
FIPSE: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
(U.S. Department of Education)
FLAC: Faculty Load and Compensation
FON Faculty Obligation Number
FSA: Faculty Service Area (Teaching Discipline)
FSA Federal Student Aid
FSC: Faculty Success Center at Coastline
FSS: Fund for Student Success
FTEF: Full Time Equivalent Faculty
FTES: Full Time Equivalent Students
GAIN: Greater Avenues for Independence
GALE: General Academic Learning Experience
GDP: Gross Domestic Product
GE: General Education
GEAC: General Education Advisory Committee (for CSU Chancellor’s Office)
GED: General Education Development (H.S. diploma equivalency test)
GELO: General Education Learning Objective
GENesis: Global Education Network
GIFT: Good Ideas for Teaching (short presentations given by teachers at a conference)
GIS: Global Information System
GRIT: Growth, Resilience, Instinct, and Tenacity
HERI: Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA
HEOA: Higher Education Opportunity Act (passed July 2010)
HIPPO: Habitat destruction, Invasive species, Pollution, Population growth, and Overhunting
HOT: Higher Order Thinking
html: hypertext mark-up language
ICAS: Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates
ICE-T Project: Intercultural Cross-Cultural Education through Technology
ICIA: International Communications Industries Association
ICFW: Intersegmental Curriculum Faculty Workgroup
ICW: Intersegmental Curriculum Workgroup
IGETC: Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum
ILC: Intercultural Learning Center
IMPAC: Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum Project
IMC: Instructional Media Center (now Graphics and Publications)
iNACOL: International Association of Online Learning
INTELECOM: Southern California Consortium for Community College Television
iPASS: Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (part of Gates Foundation)
IRB: Institutional Review Board
IRC: Intercultural Resource Center
IRD: Institutional Research Department (est. 2000)
ISD: Instructional Systems Development (Coast Learning Systems)
New title—Office of Learning and Information Technology
ISDN: Integrated Services Digital Network (telephone lines)
ISEP: Incarcerated Students Education Program
ISKME: The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
ISLO: Institutional Student Learning Outcome
ISP: Incarcerated Student Program
ISS: Instruction and Student Services
ISW: Instructional Services Wing
IT: Information Technology
IUA: Instructional Unit Assistant (union contract language for Department Chair)
JTPA: Job Training Partnership Act (See WIA)
KPI: Key Performance Indicators
LEAP: Liberal Education and America’s Promise
LAO: Legislative Analyst’s Office
LAOCRC: Los Angeles/Orange County Regional Consortia (used to be LOWDL)
LCCC: League of California Community Colleges
LDTP Lower Division Transfer Project
LEED: Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
LGBTQ: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer
LGBTQIA: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Transexual, Questioning/Queer, Intersex, Ally/Asexual
LHE: Lecture Hour Equivalent
LIM: Low Income Minority
LMI: Labor Market Information
LMS: Learning Management System (also known as Course Management System)
LOWDL: Los Angeles/Orange County Workforce Development Leaders (changed to Los Angeles/Orange County Regional Consortia—LAOCRC)
LRMI: ?????? Something to do with the Department of Education
LULAC: League of United Latin American Citizens
MALDEF: Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
MAPS: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
M&O: Maintenance and Operations
MBS: Missouri Book Store (where Coastline military students get their books)
MECTBD: Military Education, Corporate Training, and Business Development
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
MESA: Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement
MIS: Management Information Systems (way to report to the State Chancellor’s Office)
MLA: Modern Language Association
MMAP: Multiple Measures Assessment Plan
MOOC: Massive Open Online Course
MOU: Memorandum of Understanding
MPB: Mission, Plan, and Budget Committee at Coastline (now part of PIEAC)
MPI: Master Plan Initiative
MRC: Middlesex Research Center
MSF: Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
NAAPIGI: New Asian American Pacific Islander Generation Initiative
NaBITA: National Behavioral Intervention Team Association
NACIQI: National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Improvement
NAFSA: National Association of Foreign Students’ Advisors
NAPIC: National Asian Pacific Islander Council
NCAA: National Collegiate Athletics Association
NCSSFL: National Council of State Supervisors for Languages
NDE: Near-Death Experience
NEPA: National Environmental Policy Act
NGSS: Next Generation Science Standards
NILIE: National Initiative for Leadership and Institutional Effectiveness
NISOD: National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development
NOS: Non-ordinary states of consciousness
NSC: National Student Clearinghouse
NSLDS: National Student Loan Data System
NVDA: Non Visual Desktop Access (screen reader for blind persons)
OBE: Out-of-Body Experience
OCIAC: Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center
OCR: Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education
OCTFCU: Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union (now Schools First Federal Credit Union)
OEI: Online Education Initiative
OER: Open Education Resources
OHRSP: Office of Human Research Subjects Protection
OLIT: Office of Learning & Information Technologies (formerly ISD) (now BDATS)
One-Stop: Coastal County Regional One-Stop Center
OSCA: Occupational Safety Council of America
OSH: Occupational Safety and Health
OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OWA: Outlook Web Application (Microsoft’s e-mail)
PAC: Political Action Committee
PACE: Personal Assessment of the College Environment
PACE: Program Afloat for College Education (Navy Program)
PAR: Prioritization Allocation Rubric
PARS: a retirement system for adjunct employees
PBS: Public Broadcasting Service
PBPE: Planning & Budget Process Evaluation Task Force
PCAH: Program and Course Approval Handbook (from State Chancellor’s Office)
PDA: Personal Digital Assistant (palm-sized computer)
PDGRD: Planning, Development, and Government Relations Department
PDI: Professional Development Institute at Coastline Community College
PERB: Public Employment Relations Board
PERS: Public Employees Retirement System (see CalPERS)
PFE: Partnership for Excellence (money from Chancellor’s Office)
PIEAC: Planning, Institutional Effectiveness, and Accreditation Committee
PIN: Personal Identification Number
PIT: Process Improvement Team (CCCD teams put in place by Gene Farrell)
PLA: Project Labor Agreement
PNI: Protocol National Inc. (the software co. CCCD partnered with in 1990s)
PPO: Preferred Provider
P.O.S.T.: Peace Officer Standards and Training
PR: Program Review
PRU: Program Review Unit (new replacement for CCCD budget numbers)
PSLO: Program Student Learning Objective
PTEC: Process Technology (a certificate program at Coastline)
PW: President’s Wing
RCD: Rigorous Curriculum Design
REAP: Remote Educational Access Program (CCC Distance Learner Program)
REC: Regular and Effective Contact (ACCJC requirement for distance learning)
RECA: 1991 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (for “downwinders” and others)
REI: Regular and Effective Interaction (between faculty and students), required by ACCJC
RFA: Request for Applications
RFI: Request for Information
RFP: Request for Proposals
RFQ: Request for Qualifications
ROP: Regional Occupational Program
ROTC: Reserve Officers Training Corps
RMI: RMI--the initials of the owner’s first love—company that leases telecourse DVDs
RSI: Regular and Substantive Interaction (between faculty and students), required by the Department of Education
RSI: Related and Supplementary Instruction
RTF: Rich Text Format
SAC: Student Advisory Council at Coastline Community College (former name of ASG)
SAC: System Advisory Committee or Council
SAM: State Administrative Manual
SAO: Service Area Outcome
SAT: Scholastic Aptitude Test
SCANS: Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
SCORE: Service Corporation of Retired Executives (under Small Business Administration
SCOT: Students Consulting on Teaching
SEED: Sustainability Education and Economic Development
SEMS: Standard Emergency Management System (SEMS)
SEP: Student Education Plan
SFFCU Schools First Federal Credit Union (formerly Orange County Teachers Federal Credit Union)
SI: Supplemental Instruction
SLO: Student Learning Outcome
SOAR: Searchable Online Academic Resource
SOC: Military Service Members Opportunity Colleges
SOP: Standard Operating Procedures
SPAR: Student Progression and Achievement Rates (Scorecard)
SRTK: Student Right to Know
SSC: Student Success Collaborative (SCC Navigate—a tool for students to register)
SSCCC: Student Senate for California Community Colleges
SSPT: Student Services Planning Team
SSSP: Student Success and Support Program
SSTF: Student Success Task Force [State Chancellor’s Office]
SSW: Student Services Wing
STAR: Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act (SB 1440)
STAR-AA: Strategic Technology-Assisted Rapid Associate of Arts
STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Mathematics
STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics
STEMM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, & Medical
STRS: State Teachers Retirement System (see CalSTRS)
S.W.O.T.: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
TAG: Transfer A……. Guarantee
TASER: Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle (from Tom Swift children’s books)
TBA: To Be Arranged
TCO: Total Cost of Ownership
The Telelearning People (formerly The Telecourse People)
TEACh3: Education program in partnership with CCCD and CSULB
TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design: TED talks: 18-minute talks
TERC: Tenure & Evaluation Review Committee
TESOL: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
CATESOL: California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
TMAPP: Technology Model Application Pilot Projects (Chancellor's Office grants)
T-MC: Transfer Model Curriculum: AA-T and AS-T
TMI: Technology Mediated Instruction
TOP: Taxonomy of Programs
TSA: Transportation Security Administration
TTAC: Telecommunications & Technology Advisory Committee
TTIP: Telecommunications & Technology Infrastructure Program
UC: University of California
UG: Ungraded
UMUC: University of Maryland University College
Unions:
CFE/AFT: Coast Federation of Educators/American Federation of Teachers, Local 1911 (President Rob Schneiderman) (Executive Director Bob Fey)
CCA/CTA/NEA: Coast Community College Association/California Teachers
Association/National Education Association (President Mike Carlucci)
USDE: United States Department of Education
USA-STEM Undergraduate Scholarship Awards in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
VATEA Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act
changed to
VTEA: Vocational and Technical Education Act
VAWA: Violence Against Women Act
VRA: Voting Rights Act
VSP: Voluntary Separation Program
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
WAI: Web Accessibility Initiative from W3C
WAAC: Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (approved by Congress in May 1942)
WASC: Western Association of Schools and Colleges
WASP: Women Airforce Service Pilots (August 1943)
WAVE: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services (U.S. Naval Reserve) (July 1942)
WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WebSIG Coastline Web Special Interest Group
WSC: Web Steering Committee
WSCH: Weekly Student Contact Hour
Welfare Terms:
AFDC: Aid to Families with Dependent Children
WICHE: Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
TANF: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
WIA: Workforce Investment Act, formerly JTPA
WOW: World Organization of Web Masters
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