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 AmericanColleges and Universities
AANAPISI:Asian American, Native American, Pacific IslanderServing 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 CaliforniaCommunity 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:CaliforniaHigh 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:CaliforniaState 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:CoastCommunity College Association (part-time faculty union in CCCD)
CCA/CTA/NEA:CoastCommunity College Association/California Teachers
Association/National Education Association
CCAOE:CaliforniaCommunity College Association of Occupational Education
CCAR:College & Career Access Partnerships
CCC:California Community Colleges
CCCCO:CaliforniaCommunity 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:CaliforniaCommunity 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:CommunityCollegeResearchCenter
CCSS:CommonCoreState Standards for K-12
CCSSM:CommonCoreState Standards in Mathematics
CCTC:CoastlineCollegeTechnologyCenter
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)
CMC3California Mathematics Council for Community Colleges
CMNCC:Costa MesaNeighborhoodCommunity Center
CMS:Course Management System (also known as Learning Management System)
CMTAC:CaliforniaMexicoTradeAssistanceCenter (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 CoastlineCollege)
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:CaliforniaReading and Literature Project
CRN:Course Registration Number
CSA:CustomerServiceAcademy
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 OrangeCountyCommunityCollegeDistrictDigitalInnovationCenter for the Arts, Science and Technology of the Advanced Technology and EducationPark, a new advanced technologieslearning 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
DSKDistrict 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 (InternationalHigh School to College Program)
ECCTYC: English Council of California Two-Year Colleges
ECE:Early Childhood Education
ECHS:Early CollegeHigh 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
FONFaculty Obligation Number
FSA:Faculty Service Area (Teaching Discipline)
FSAFederal Student Aid
FSC:FacultySuccessCenter 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 LearningCenter
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 CollegeTelevision
iPASS:Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (part of Gates Foundation)
IRB:Institutional Review Board
IRC:Intercultural ResourceCenter
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
LDTPLower 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:MiddlesexResearchCenter
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:OrangeCountyIntelligenceAssessmentCenter
OCR:Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education
OCTFCU:Orange CountyTeachers 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 CountyRegionalOne-StopCenter
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 CoastlineCommunity 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 leasestelecourse 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 CoastlineCommunity 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
SFFCUSchoolsFirst 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)