AccessPlus

ISU’s web-based system where employees and students access important and confidential information related to employment, u-bills, and university business.

ACVB

(City of) Ames Convention & Visitor’s Bureau

AEED

Area Extension Education Director

AES

Agricultural Experiment Station, formally the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station (IAHEES)

AFRI

Agriculture and Food Research Initiative – a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) competitive grant program

AFSCME

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, collective bargaining union for merit employees.

AgMRC

ISU Agricultural Marketing Resource Center

AREERA

Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 (federal)

BAC

Budget & Advocacy Committee of NASULGC’s Board on Agriculture Assembly

BLS

Bachelor of Liberal Studies

BOB

Basic Operating Budget

BOR

Board of Regents, State of Iowa

CA

Confidentiality Agreement

CAED

County Agricultural Extension District

CALS

ISU College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

CARD

ISU Center for Agricultural and Rural Development

CARET

Council For Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching

CCUR

ISU Center For Crops Utilization

CEC

County Extension Council

CECS

Continued Education & Communication Services

CED

Communities and Economic Development

CEED

County Extension Education Director

CFR

Code of Federal Regulations

CIRAS

ISU Center for Industrial Research and Services

CRIS

Current Research Information System  (USDA)

CSRL

ISU Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods

CVC

Community Vitality Center (ISU Extension)

D/I/C/E

Department / Institute / Center / Extension

ECOP

Extension Committee on Organization and Policy (Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities)

EFNEP

Expanded Foods and Nutrition Education Program

EMMS

Educational Materials & Marketing Services

EPA

Electronic Personnel Action

ESCOP

Experiment Station Committee on Organization and Policy (Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities)

FAPRI

ISU Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute

FERS

Federal Employment Retirement System

FSQA

Food Safety & Quality Assurance

GIS

Geographic Information Systems

HRS

Human Resource Services – ISU’s centralized HR team located in Beardshear

I-9

Federal employment document that must be completed on or before the first day of employment

IACEC

Iowa Association County Extension Council

IAHEES

Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station

IDALS

(State of) Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship

IDC

Indirect Cost Recovery

IDEA

Information Development ~ Expanding Awareness

IDOM

(State of) Iowa Department of Management

IMEP

Iowa Manufacturing Extension Partnership

IP

Intellectual Properties

ISSO

ISU International Students & Scholars Office

ISUCEP

Iowa State University Cooperative Extension Professionals

KFS

Kuali Financial Systems – replacing WebFM July 1, 2012

LAS

ISU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

LOI

Letter of Intent

MANRRS

Minorities in Agriculture Natural Resources & Related Sciences

MATRIC

ISU Midwest Agribusiness Trade Research and Information Center

MAXX

University database for conference services

Merit

Employees covered by the collective bargaining agreement.

MTA

Material Transfer Agreements

MTDC

Modified Total Direct Cost

NACo

National Association of Counties

NASULGC

National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

NIFA

(USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture

NIMSS

National Information Management and Support System

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOV

Notice of Vacancy, electronic form used to advertise positions at ISU

OIG

(USDA) Office of Inspector General

OSPA

ISU Office of Sponsored Programs Administration

PD

Position Description, term currently used for the online job description. 

PD or PI

Project Director, principal investigator on an experiment station project

PIF

Personnel Information Form

PIQ/PDQ

Position Information Questionnaire/Position Description Questionnaire

PRS

Position Responsibility Statement

PSA

Professional Services Agreement

P&S

Professional & Scientific, employees who are exempt from overtime.

P&T

Promotion and Tenure

REEport

USDA-NIFA grant and formula project reporting system, eventually will replace CRIS web forms system

RFA/RFP

Request for Applications; Request for Proposals

RMM

Resource Management Model (university budgeting)

RRC

Resource Responsibility Center (university budgeting)

RREA

Renewal Resources Extension Account (Animal Ecology or Forestry)

SPA

ISU Sponsored Programs Accounting

TDC

Total Direct Cost

WOI

ISU Radio/TV Station – 640 AM; 90.1 FM; ABC

A Base

12 month faculty appointment

B Base

9 month faculty appointment

C Base

Graduate student appointments, governed by the Graduate College

D Base

Pre/post doc appointments, governed by the Graduate College

E/H base

Merit employee

P Base

P&S employee

M Base

Post graduate appointment for recently graduated masters or PHD students who need to continue involvement in a graduate project for a limited duration.

S/C

Supervisory/confidential employee – a subset of merit employees exempt from coverage by the collective bargaining contract

XH

Temporary hourly employees