1/17

Acronym Description

1032 Faculty Database Internal to School of Medicine

A

A&P (Council on) Appointments and Promotions

A&S Arts & Sciences (see COAS)

A/B See Faculty Salaries

A/L Annual Leave

A33 FORM Request to pay moving expenses.

AA Academic Affairs or Affiliation Agreement

AAAHC Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care

AAALAC Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care

AAMC Association of American Medical Colleges

ABIM American Board of Internal Medicine

ABSL Animal Biosafety Level (1-4)

AC See Faculty Salaries

ACE Advanced Clinical Experience

ACGME Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

ACM Asbestos Containing Material

ACO Accountable Care Organization Administrative Contracting Officer

ACPPA Additional Compensation Payroll Payment Authorization

ADA American with Disabilities Act of 1990

ADP Practice Plan Payroll System

ADS See Faculty Salaries

AFQ Annual Financial Questionnaire

AGO Attorney General’s Office

AHC Academic Health Centers

AHEC Area Health Education Centers

AHLA American Health Lawyers Association

AHR Academic Human Resources

AMA American Medical Association

AMC Academic Medical Center

ANPRM Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

AO Accounting Operations

APA Academic Practice Association

APS Academic Personnel Support

ARNP Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner

ASF Academic Support Fund Assignable Square Feet

ASID Annual Salary Increase Database

2/17

Acronym Description

ASIPS Annual Salary Increase Process Website

ASMA American Society of Medical Administrators

ASTRA Access to Systems, Tools, Resources and Applications

A-TAC Academic Technology Advisory Committee

AUP See UWP

AVP Associate Vice President

AY Academic Year

B

B2B Business to Business

BAA Broad Agency Announcement

BAR Budget Activity Report

B-E Break Even

BGT Budget Driver

BI Billing Investigation

BIRF Budget Increase Request Form

BN Budget Number

BROTMAN

BLDG

The Brotman Building is located at 815 Mercer Street (in the

SLU neighborhood)

BSA Basic Science Administrators

BSC Basic Science Chairs

BSR Budget Status Report

BSRB Biomedical Sciences Research Building

C

C&C Computing & Communications

CAFR Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

CAMPUS

PHONE #'S

0-xxxx 520-xxxx

1-xxxx 221-xxxx 3-xxxx 543-xxxx

5-xxxx 685-xxxx

6-xxxx 616-xxxx 7-xxxx 897-xxxx

8-xxxx 598-xxxx

CAS Cost Accounting Standards

CASB Cost Accounting Standards Board

CASH Cash Assessment Starts Here

CASPO Capital and Space Planning Office – renamed to Capital

Resource Planning

CBO Congressional Budget Office

CBY Clinical Base Year

CCC Core Competencies Committee

3/17

Acronym Description

CCI Core Competencies Initiative

CCN Collaborative Care Network

CCU Clinical Clerkship Unit

CDA College and Department Administration

CEF Consolidated Endowment Fund

CERT Certification Report (payroll)

CF Central Files

CFAR Center for AIDS Research

CFR Code of Federal Regulations

CHAP Community Health Advancement Program (associated with

the Department of Family Medicine)

CHARS Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System

CHRMC Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center

CIA Corporate Integrity Agreement

CLE Continuing Legal Education

CMC Clinical Management Committee

CME Continuing Medical Education

CMF Clinical Medicine Fund (Funded by assessment of clinical cash at UWP and CUMG)

CO Contracting Officer

COAS

or A&S

College of Arts and Sciences

COB Close of Business

COE Central Operating Expenses

COG Compliance Officers’ Group

COGR Council on Government Relations

CORGE Council on the Office of Research and Graduate Education

(CORGE) Committee

COSTPY Amount of principal for prior year

CPI Continuous Professionalism Improvement or

Continuous Process Improvement

CQIP Coordinated Quality Improvement Program

CRBB Clinical Research Budget & Billing Support Office

CREFT Clinical Research Effort Task Force

CRP Capital Resource Planning (formerly CASPO)

CSA Clinical Science Administrators note: use CSD instead

CSD Clinical Science Directors

CSR Center for Scientific Review

CT, CTF Cash Transmittal, Cash Transmittal Form

CTA Corporate Travel Account

CTBB Clinical Trials Budgeting & Billing

CTI Cost Transfer Invoice

4/17

Acronym Description

CTM Change Transaction Memorandum

CTSA Clinical and Translational Science Award (from NIH)

CUMG Children’s University Medical Group

(billing organization for Medicare/Medicaid/insurance for UW faculty & Children’s Hospital)

D

DA Department Administration Costs

DC Direct Costs

DCE Direct Cost Equivalent

DED Department of Education

DESC Downtown Emergency Service Center

DGH Department of Global Health

DHEW Department of Health, Education and Welfare

DHHS Department of Health and Human Services

DIO Designated Institutional Official

DOC Department of Commerce

DOD Department of Defense

DOE Department of Energy

DOF Designated Operating Fund

DOL Department of Labor

DoM Dean of Medicine Department of Medicine

DOME Department of Medical Education (formerly DORME – Department of Research in Medical Education)

DORME See DOME

DOT Department of Transportation

DPA Department of Public Assistance. DPAs are 31 budgets used

for HMC and UWP's clinical funds flowing into UW

DR Disaster Recovery

DSA Department Support Agreements

DSMB Data Safety Monitoring Board

E

E/C Excess Compensation

EC Electronic Commerce

ECL Executive Clinical Leadership

ECPA Excess Compensation Payroll Authorization

EEB Executive Ethics Board (State of Washington)

EEOP Emergency Evacuation and Operations Plan

eFECS electronic Faculty Effort and Cost Sharing Project

EFT Electronic Funds Transfer

5/17

Acronym Description

EH&S Environmental Health & Safety

EHR Electronic Health Record

EID Employee Identification Number

EIS Equipment Inventory System

Endowments – relevant

terms

OP AUTH Department that holds the primary operating account of an endowment

OPER 1 Primary operating account number of an

endowment

OPER 2 Secondary operating account number of an endowment

Q1INC1

Q(2-4)INC1 Quarterly income distribution for OPER 1

Q1INC2

Q(2-4)INC2 Quarterly income distribution for OPER 2

Q1PUR Q(2-4)PUR Purchases or adjustments to the principal for

each quarter

Q1UNT Q2-4UNT Purchases or adjustments to the number of

units for each quarter

ENS See Faculty Salaries

EO Executive Order

EOY End of Year

EPA Environmental Protection Agency

EPL Employment Practices Liability

ERA Economic Regulatory Administration

ESCRO Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee

ETR Exception Time Report (payroll)

F

F&A Facilities and Administration/Administrative (a.k.a. Indirect Cost)

F/U Follow Up

FAA Faculty Activity Analysis Federal Aviation Administration

6/17

Acronym Description

Faculty Salaries

A/B Tenured Basic Science Faculty Compensation: A = tenure level, B = grant and contract

funding

AC Additional Compensation (MAC, SAAC)

AC PPA Additional Compensation Payroll Payment

Authorization

ADS Administrative Supplement: Funds paid to the

Chairs for administrative work role

E/C Excess Compensation

ENS Endowed Supplements

IBS Institutional Base Salary: A+B+ADS or X+Y+ADS.

MAC Monthly Additional Compensation

SAAC, SAC Semi-Annual Additional Compensation, Semi-Annual Compensation (faculty salaries)

Total Compensation Sum of Base Salary + Other Compensation

components: X+Y+Z+AC+ADS+TPS

X UW Salary component

X+Y+Z+AC+ADS+TPS

Other Compensation Components

Y Practice Plan Salary component

Z Incentive Payment, associated with IDPs

FARS Financial Accounting and Reporting System

FAS University’s online Financial Accounting System [or FIN]

FBAG Financial Business Advisory Group

FDA Food and Drug Administration

FDP Federal Demonstration Partnership

Federal Demonstration Project

FEC Faculty Effort Certification [most common definition]

Fetal Echocardiogram Clinic (clinic closed; often paired with REI)

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FERST Faculty Effort Report Support Team

7/17

Acronym Description

FES Faculty Effort Survey (for Medicare Cost Report)

FF&E Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment

FHCRC Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

FIN University’s online Financial Accounting System [or FAS]

FLSA Fair Labor Standards Act

FMLA Family and Medical Leave Act

See also time sheet leave codes

FMO Faculty Management Office

FN Foreign National

FNSA Financial System Needs Assessment

FOIA Freedom of Information Act

FPA Fellow Position Agreement

FPPE Focused Professional Practice Evaluation

FPSC Faculty Practice Solutions Center

FR Federal Register

FRWG Financial Reporting Work Group

FSR Financial Status Reports

FTC Federal Trade Commission

FTCF Full-Time Clinical Faculty

FTE Full-Time Equivalent

FY Fiscal Year

FYE Fiscal Year End

FYTD Fiscal Year To Date

G

GA General Administration (costs)

GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GAO General Accounting Office

GASB Governmental Accounting Standards Board

GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GBA Group on Business Affairs

GCA Grant and Contract Accounting

GCCRs Grant and Contract Certification Reports

GCP Good Clinical Practice (training)

GCRC General Clinical Research Center

GH Department of Global Health

GIM Grants Information Memorandum

GME Graduate Medical Education

GMO Grants Management Office

GOF General Operating Fund (referring to state budgets)

Green

Sheets

See ODB

8/17

Acronym Description

GSA General Services Administration

GSF Gross Square Feet

H

HAI Health Alliance International

HBI Horizon Business Insight

HCFA Health Care Financing Administration

HEGIS Higher Education General Information Survey

HEPPS Higher Education Payroll & Personnel System (University-wide)

HFF Hospital-Funded Faculty

HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute

HHPCC Hall Health Primary Care Center

HHS Department of Health and Human Services

HIA Health Information Administration

HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HMC Harborview Medical Center

HNS Head & Neck Surgery (Otolaryngology)

HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration

HSARPA Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency

HSB Health Sciences Building

HSC (Warren G. Magnuson) Health Sciences Center 1959 NE Pacific St.

HSIS Health Sciences Information Service

HUD Department of Housing and Urban Development

HVTU HIV Vaccine Trials Unit

Hx History

I

IAC Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation

IACUC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

IBC Institutional Bio-safety Committee

IBS See Faculty Salaries

ICC Interstate Commerce Commission

ICR Informal Compliance Review or

Indirect Cost Rate, Recovery f-ICR Facilities Component of Indirect Cost Recovery

ICRC International Clinical Research Center

IDC Indirect Costs Industrial Development Corporation

IDP Income Distribution Plan

IDS Investigational Drug Services

9/17

Acronym Description

IEB Harborview Inpatient Expansion Building

IG Inspector General

IGT Intergovernmental Transfer

IHE International Health Elective

IHME Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

ILP Internal Lending Program

I-MAC Information Management Advisory Committee

IND Investigational New Drug or Device

IOM Institute of Medicine

IPA Intergovernmental Personnel Act

IPCR Institute for Prostate Cancer Research

IPR Intellectual Property Rights

IPS Investment Policy Statement

IR&D Independent Research Development

IRB Institutional Review Board

IRO Independent Review Organization

ISB Institute for Systems Biology

ISCRM Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

ISD Internal Sales Document

ISIS Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies

ISO International Services Office

iSTAR Improving Systems to Advance Research (Office of Research)

ITAC Information Technology Advisory Committee

I-TECH International Training and Education Center for HIV

ITSH Institute of Translational Health Sciences

IV Invoice Voucher

J

JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

JCS Joint Chiefs of Staff

JMCSPC Joint Medical Centers Personnel Steering Committee

JV Journal Voucher

L

LAPA Limited Associate Practice Agreement

LCME Liaison Committee on Medical Education

LCVI Leadership, Community and Values Initiative

LFA Local Fund Allocation

LOA Leave of Absence

LOU Letter of Understanding

LPA Sick Leave Pay Off

10/17

Acronym Description

LSDF Life Sciences Discovery Fund

LSTCOST Latest principal amount including adjustments to principal

LSTUNIT Latest number of units in CBF including adjustments

LTR Leave and Time Reporting

LWO, LWOP Leave Without Pay

M

MAA Management Accounting and Analysis

MAC See Faculty Salaries

MBDA Minority Business Development Agency

MCB Molecular and Cellular Biology

METER Meeting Expectations Through Enhanced Reporting

MGMA Medical Group Management Association

Minor Mods See Program Renewal

MIS Management Information System

MKTPY Market value for prior year

MMEP Minority Medical Education Program

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MPA Member Practice Agreement

MQAC Medical Quality Assurance Commission

MSA Medical School Administrators

MSAC Medical Services Administration Committee

MSEC Medical School Executive Committee

MSRTP Medical School Research Training Program

MSTP Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)

MTA Material Transfer Agreement

MTDC Modified Total Direct Cost

MUP Master Use Permit

N

NACCA National Conference on College Cost Accounting

NACUA National Association of College and University Attorneys

NAM New Appointment Memorandum

NAS National Academy of Sciences

NCI National Cancer Institute

NCQA National Committee on Quality Assurance

NCR News and Community Relations (part of UW Medicine)

NCRR National Center for Research Resources

NCURA National Council of University Research Administrators

NEA Notice to Establish Account (GCA)

NGA Notice of Grant Award

11/17

Acronym Description

NHLBI National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

NIAID National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases

NIE National Institute of Education

NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Services

NIH National Institutes of Health

NJB Ninth and Jefferson Building (at Harborview)

NMTRF Northwest Medical Teaching & Research Foundation

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPDB National Practitioner Data Bank

NPI National Provider Identifier

NPR National Performance Review

NPT New Provider Training

NRA Non-Resident Alien

NRC National Research Council Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NSA National Security Agency

NSB National Science Board

NSF National Science Foundation

NWH Northwest Hospital

NWRCE Northwest Regional Center of Excellence

O

OARS Online Accident Reporting System

OBA Office of Biotechnology Activities (part of NIH)

OBD Operating Budget Detail a.k.a. green sheets (a report that breaks down the permanent and temporary allocations of

state budgets)

OD&T Occupational Development and Training

OFA Office of Faculty Appointments & Faculty Records Unit

OFP Office of Facility Planning

OFIS Online Financial Information System

OIG Office of Inspector General

OIM Office of Information Management

OLTRS Online Leave and Time Record System

OMB Office of Management and Budget

OMCA University of Washington School of Medicine

Office of Multicultural Affairs

OMSA Office of Medical Staff Appointments

OOO Out of Office

OOS Out of State

OOT Out of Town

OPEB Other Post Employment Benefit

12/17

Acronym Description

O&M Operations and Maintenance Costs

OCR Office of Civil Rights

OFCC Office of Federal Contract Compliance

OFFM Office of Federal Financial Management

OFM Office of Financial Management

OFR Office of the Federal Register

OHRP Office of Human Research Protection

OIRA Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

OLAW Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare

OPERA Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration

OPM Office of Personnel Management

OPMA Open Public Meetings Act

OPPE Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation

OPR Office of Public Records Open Public Meetings

OPUS Online Payroll Update System

OR Office of Research

ORA Office of Research Administration

ORCA Online Record of Clinical Activity

ORIS Office of Research Information Services

OSCE Objective Structured Clinical Examination

OSHA Occupational Health and Safety Administration

OSI Office of Scholarly Integrity

OSP Office of Sponsored Programs

OTT Office of Technical Transfer

OWLS Online Work Leave System

P

P/P Point-to-Point (travel/mileage)

PAAF Pre-Approval Action Form

PAC Private Access Code

PAF Personnel Action Form

PAS Purchasing and Accounts Payable Online System

PBI Portage Bay Insurance

PBL Problem-Based Learning

PBSCI Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences

PCAST President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology

PCN Primary Care Network

PCRI See IPCR

PCV Petty Cash Voucher

PDA Public Disclosure Act

PDC Paid Clinical (faculty status)

13/17

Acronym Description

PDR Paid Direct (faculty salaries paid from sources other than UW budgets)

PEBC Physician Education, Billing, And Compliance Committee

PEI Physician Ethics & Integrity

PERC Public Employee Relations Commission

PERM Post-Entry Review Message (payroll)

PES Psychiatry Emergency Service

PETA People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

PFS Patient Financial Services

PHI Protected Health Information

PHS Public Health Service

PI Principal / Primary Investigator

PIP Project Impact Plan

PIT Process Improvement Team

PMC Pacific Medical Center (PacMed)

PNNL Pacific Northwest National Lab

PNRI Pacific Northwest Research Institute

PO Purchase Order (synonym for “PR”)

POC Point of Contact

PPD Physician Practice Dashboard

PPP PowerPoint Presentation

PQRI Physician Quality Reporting Initiative

PR Purchase Requisition (synonym for “PO”)

PRFTC Position Request for Full-Time Clinician

PRINC This is the endowment account that holds the principal

Program

Renewal

Minor Modifications a.k.a. Project renewal (a pot of money

that the Dean of Medicine gets every year for capital projects)

PSBC Puget Sound Blood Center

PSO Professional Staff Organization

PSP Puget Sound Plaza 1325 4th Avenue

PSSP Professional Services Supplemental Payment

PTR Positive Time Report (payroll)

PV Planned vacancy for a state line. Department will not recruit

to a tenured faculty position.

Q

QI Quality Improvement

QOL Quality of Life

R

R&B Retirement & Benefits

14/17

Acronym Description

R&R Research and Related

R&T Harborview Research & Training Building

Research and Training Accounts (used by mostly clinical

departments that are funded by their reserves. Dean's office calls this CMF)

R01 Research Project Grant (through NIH)

RCDRC Regional Clinical Dental Research Center

RCR Research Cost Recovery

RDRC Radioactive Drug Research Committee

REG Regular earnings

REI Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility

Also referred to as FEC (Fertility/Endocrine Center)

REO Real Estate Office

RFA Request for Applications

RFA Request for Faculty Appointment

RFI Request for Information

RFP Request for Proposal

RFQ Request for Quotation

RGE Research and Graduate Education

RMS Records Management Services

ROI Return on Investment

ROM Rough Order of Magnitude

ROS Review of Systems

RPA Resident Position Agreement

RPI Rapid Process Improvement

RRA Research Rate Agreement

RRC Residency Review Committee

RRF Royalty Research Fund

RSA Research Support Allocation

RST Retro/Retroactive Salary Transfer (used to move salaries that

were incorrectly charged to a budget)

RTBS Resident Tracking and Billing Systems

RTE Request to Transfer Expenditures

RTO Research Trials Office

RUOP or R/UOP

Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (part of Medical School curriculum)

RVU Relative Value Unit

tRVU Total Relative Value Unit wRVU Work Relative Value Unit

S

S&W Salaries and Wages

15/17

Acronym Description

S&W+B Salaries and Wages plus Benefits

S/L Sick Leave

S2S System to System

SAAC, SAC See Faculty Salaries

SBAR Situation Background Analysis Recommendation

SBRI Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

SCC South Campus Center (part of the UW Medical Center

complex)

SCCA Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

SCRI Seattle Children’s Research Institute

SDB Student Database System

SDLC Software Development Life Cycle

SEIU Service Employees International Union

SFI Significant Financial Interest

SIBCR Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research

SIMS Space Inventory Management System

SITWG Systems and Information Technology Work Group (part of MSA)

SLU South Lake Union

SMC Sports Medicine Clinic

SoM School of Medicine

SOMAS School of Medicine Administrative Systems

SOMOC School of Medicine Online Curriculum

SOP Sites of Practice

SOPs Standard Operating Procedures

SORCE Surgical Outcomes Research Center

SOSO System Owner System Operator

SOW Statement of Work

SPA Sponsored Project Administration

SPAS Sponsored Project Administration System

SPEC Security Programming Executive Committee

SPHCM School of Public Health and Community Medicine

SPOC Single Point of Contact

SRA Society of Research Administrators

SSRS Single Source Residency System

STR Stores System

SVIRC Seattle Vaccine and Immunization Research Center

T

T&D Training & Development

TDC Total Direct Costs

TEV Travel Expense Voucher

16/17

Acronym Description

TFA Retirement Exempt Pay (for retired Faculty and Librarians re-employed for a maximum 40% re-employment per year)

TIs Tenant Improvements

Time Sheet Leave Codes

Time sheet/OWLS designations: A Annual Leave

B Bereavement Leave C Civil Leave/Jury Duty

D Discretionary Leave HU Holiday Credit

L Leave Without Pay M Military Leave

PH Personal Holiday

S Sick Leave SH Shared Leave Used

Time sheet/OWLS designations reflecting FMLA: AF Annual Leave - FMLA

DF Discretionary Leave - FMLA HUF Holiday Credit Used - FMLA

LF Leave Without Pay - FMLA SF Sick Leave - FMLA

SHF Shared Leave - FMLA

TOC Table of Contents

TPI Temporary Pay Increase (for professional staff)

TPS Temporary Salary Supplement (for faculty, librarians)

TRANPASU Transactions/Parent and/or Subs - form to set up new budget thru GCA

TRUST Targeted Rural and Underserved Track

TSI Temporary Salary Increase (for classified staff)

Tx Transfer

U

UAA User Access Administration

UCIRO University Complaint Investigation & Resolution Office

UIF University Initiative Fund

UNTIPY Number of units for the endowment for prior year

UPC Unpaid Clinical (faculty status)

USAID United States Agency for International Development

USMLE United States Medical Licensing Examination

USR Unit Spending Reports

U-TAC University Technology Advisory Committee

UW Medicine University of Washington Medicine

UWAG UW Attorney General

17/17

Acronym Description

UWAMC UW Academic Medical Center

UWATS UW Alternative Toll Service

UWEO UW Educational Outreach

UHRC University Human Resources Committee

UWMC UW Medical Center

UWP University of Washington Physicians (formerly AUP –

Association of University Physicians)

UWPN University of Washington Physicians Network/ Neighborhood Clinics

UWSOM University of Washington School of Medicine

V

V Vacancy – vacant state line that the department will not

recruit to a tenured faculty position

VA Department of Veterans Affairs

VAH Veterans Administration Hospital

VAPSHCS Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System

VCF Venture Capital Fund

VELM VPMA Executive Leadership Meeting

VPMA Vice President for Medical Affairs

VPRP Violence Prevention and Response Program

W

W/F Working File

WAC Washington Administrative Code

WOT Without Tenure (for reasons of funding)

WSMA Washington State Medical Association

WSP Washington State Patrol

WWAMI Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (Residency Program)

X

X See Faculty Salaries

XLP Exempted Annual Leave Payoff: Payment for unused vacation

leave at the time of an employee's separation from the UW.

Y

Y See Faculty Salaries

Z

Z See Faculty Salaries

Updated 4/15/10