Purchase Alphabet Soup
Every wonder what BPAC stands for? How about EMIT? Here’s your guide to the acronyms staff encounter at Purchase.
AAFTE
Annual Average Full-Time Equivalent
A+D
ACE
Advancing Completion through Engagement
ASAC
Academic Standards and Awards Committee
BEM
Broadcast E-mail Message
BPAC
Budget Planning and Assessment Committee
BUG
Banner Users Group
C&CS
Office of Communications & Creative Services
CARE
Community Assessment, Response and Education
CCN
Campus Center North
CCS
Campus Center South
CE
School of Continuing Education
COA
Cost of Attendance
COD
COM
CSEA
Civil Service Employees Association
CTS
DEIC
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
DT
DTL
Dance Theatre Lab
EAP
New York State Employee Assistance Program
EITA
Electronic Information Technology Accessibility
EMIT
Enrollment Management Implementation Team
EOP
Educational Opportunity Program
EPC
Educational Policies Committee
F@L
FERPA
Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FMG
Office of Facilities Management
FMS
School of Film and Media Studies
FPO
Faculty Presiding Officer
FT
Full-Time
FTE
Full-Time Equivalent
HR
HRETS
Human Resources Employee Tracking System
HUM
ITAC
Instructional Technology Advisory Committee
LAS
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
LS
MAP
MC
Management Confidential
NEU
NME
NSS
School of Natural and Social Sciences
NYSUP
New York State University Police
OGE
ORD
Office of Disability Resources
PAC
PAF
Personnel Action Form
PCA
PCF
PIPCO
President’s Integrated Planning Council
PPC
PPEV
Performance Program and Evaluation
PSAC
Professional Standards and Awards Committee
PSC
PSGA
Purchase Student Government Association
PT
Part-Time
PWO
RA
Resident Assistant
RC
Residence Coordinator
RF
RSL
Office of Residential and Student Life
SAF
SDG
SFS
SOA
SPAC
Strategic Planning and Assessment Committee
TA
TLTC
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center
THP
TWO
Think Wide Open
UFS
UPD
UUP
VA
Visual Arts Building
Adapted for the spring 2024 PSC newsletter from the original version compiled and edited by Dan Hanessian.