Sometimes people talk in so many acronyms that you can't understand what the heck the other person is talking about. This page is intended to disambiguate all those nutty acronyms that the university uses for brevity's sake.
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A
AA/PI — Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center
ACAO — Associate College Administrative Officer
ACE — Academic Excellence Program
ACF — Advisory Committee for Facilities
AEPi — Alpha Epsilon Pi
AIS — Academic Information Services, their most notable product being my.ucsc.edu
ARC — The Academic Resource Center, home to STARS, EOP and the Learning Center.
ARI — Arts Research Institute
B
BSN — Black Science Network
C
CA — Community Assistant. At Kresge they serve as RAs, at College 8 they do community-wide activities not enforcement (there are still RAs), at Oakes they are also student programming workers.
CALPIRG — The California Student Public Interest Research Group
CASFS — The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
CAN — Community Agroecology Network, and less commonly, the Career Advice Network
CBSE — Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
CC — Community Coordinator, serve a similar role to RAs in the UCSC RV Camper Park
CCRG — Computer Communications Research Group
CenTREAD — Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture and Development
CfAO — Center for Adaptive Optics
CGIRS — Center for Global, International and Regional Studies
ChALE — Chicano(a)s and Latino(a)s Educandose
CITRIS — Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
CJTC — Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community
CLT — Center for Learning and Teaching
CPS — Counseling and Psychological Services
CRE — Coordinator for Residential Education
CSA — Chinese Student Association
CSC — Campus Sustainability Council, Chabbad Student Club
CSS — Campus Sustainability Subcommittee
CTE — Center for Teaching Excellence
CUIP — Chancellor's Undergraduate Internship Program
CUSN — Community Unified Student Network
D
DANM — Digital Arts and New Media
DML — Digital Media Lab
DPP — Deferred Payment Plan, which allows you to pay registration fees at a later date
DRC — Disability Resource Center
E
E2 (E-Squared) — Engaging Education
EAP — Education Abroad Program
EOP — Educational Opportunities Program
EOPS — Extended Opportunity Programs and Services
EPC — Educational Partnership Center
ER — Employee Request, the system used for hiring students for University jobs.
Eres — Electronic Reserves, a website where teachers can post class readings and other materials
ESLP — Education for Sustainable Living Program
F
FAFSA — Free Application for Federal Student Aid
FERPA — Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which basically says that no one except you and your college/the university may have access to your grades and transcripts. This means that your parents have no legal right to see their son or daughter's university records, unless the information is subpoenaed by the court.
FOCAN — Friends of the Community Agroecology Network
FSA — Food Service Advisor
FSH — Family Student Housing
FSWG — Food Systems Working Group
G
GIIP — Global Information Internship Program
GPA — Grade Point Average
GRASE — Group Researching Advances in Software Engineering
GSA — Graduate Student Association
H
HAVC — History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC majors pronounce it havoc)
I
IAFR — Institute for Advanced Feminist Research
IGPP — Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
IHR — Institute for Humanities Research
ISOSC — International Socialist Organization at Santa Cruz
ISSS — International Scholar and Student Services
ITI — Information Technologies Institute
ITS — Information Technology Services
ISO — Indian Student Organization
J
K
L
LEADS — Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees Program, designed to aid "economically or educationally disadvantaged undergraduates pursuing courses of study in science, mathematics, or engineering and who are likely to succeed in graduate school."
M
MARC/MBRS - See http://marcmbrs.ucsc.edu
MEChA — Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan
MEEG — Molecular Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics
MERC — Media and Electronic Resource Center
N
NA — Neighborhood Assistant, the Oakes equivalent of an RA.
NTC — New Teacher's Center
NSBE — National Society of Black Engineers
O
OIE — Office of International Education
OL — Orientation Leader, help students during move-in and other orientation activities.
OPERS — Office of Physical Education Recreation and Sports
P
PICA — Program In Community and Agroecology
PTP — Professions Training Program
Q
R
REU — Research Experiences for Undergraduates, a program funded by the National Science Foundation
ROTC — "Reserve Officer Training Corps," not available at UCSC
S
SAMA — Slug Anime and Manga Association
SAW — Students Against War
SCCIE — Santa Cruz Center for International Economics
SCIPP — Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
SCPBRG — Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
SEC — Student Environmental Center
SHO — Sexual Harassment Office
SHOP — Student Health Outreach and Promotion
SIN — Students Informing Now
SOAR — Student Organizations, Advising and Resources
SOE — Jack Baskin School of Engineering
SOS — Students for Organic Solutions
SSC — Shakespeare Santa Cruz
STARS — Services for Transfer and Re-Entry Students
STOP — Students Together Opposing Poverty
SUA — Student Union Assembly
SURF — Student Undergraduate Research Fellowship
SWCJ — Student Worker Coalition for Justice
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U
UCCS — UC Center in Sacramento
UCUES — University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey, a survey administered at all UC campuses during the spring quarter in order to obtain information about student life and academics
UCO — University of California Observatories
UCOP — University of California Office of the President
