University Acronyms
Known university-wide acronyms or abbreviations that define colleges, schools, programs, centers and institutes, departments, committees, roles, common terminology, and more are listed below alphabetically. Use the "find" command (Ctrl + F) to search for your specific acronym or term, or use the table of contents (three line icon) at the left to navigate to the first letter of the acronym. Acronyms that have additional information defining the terminology or explaining its use have been linked to their documentation.
Acronyms for specific units or departments that are rarely used across the university (e.g. different types of HR certifications that only HR professionals may receive) may be found by searching the term and filtering for the "Terminology" tag.
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A
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
AACD | Academic Advising and Career Development | Department; Success |
AAN | Academic Accommodation Notice | Terminology |
ACIR | Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (retired) | Committee |
ADHT | (School of) Art, Design, History, and Theory | College/School; Parsons |
ADM | Attendance and Disability Memo | Terminology |
AE | Alumni Engagement | Department; DAE |
AGP | Annual Giving Programs | Department; DAE |
AMT | (School of) Art, Media, and Technology | College/School; Parsons |
APG | Academic Planning Group | Committee; Parsons |
ASC | Archives and Special Collections | Department; LCAS |
ASW | Academic Student Worker | Role |
AUS | Access and User Services | Department; LCAS |
AY | Academic Year | Terminology; PO |
B
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
BAFA | BA/BFA Pathway - dual BA (Lang) & BFA (CoPA or Parsons) | Program/Degree |
BBA | Bachelor of Business Administration | Program/Degree; Parsons |
BBA SDM | Bachelor of Business Administration, Strategic Design and Management | Program/Degree; Parsons |
BFA IDp | BFA Integrated Design program | Program/Degree; Parsons |
BOT | Board of Trustees Administration | Department; DAE |
BPATS | Bachelor's Program for Adults and Transfer Students | Program/Degree; SPE |
C
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
CA | Course Assistant | Role |
CAR | Center for Attachment Research | Center/Institute; NSSR |
CARE | (The New School) Communicate, Assess, Respond, and Engage Team | Committee; SSCM |
CC | Terminology; Finance | |
CCG | COVID Coordination Group | Committee |
CDA | Center for Data Arts | Center/Institute |
CE | Continuing Education | Terminology |
CESJ | The Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice | Department; Lang |
CFRE | Certified Fund Raising Executive | Role; DAE |
COI | Terminology; Finance | |
COI | Terminology; HR | |
COOR | Coordinator | Role |
CoPA | College of Performing Arts | College/School; CoPA |
CPE | Continuing and Professional Education (formerly Open Campus) | College/School; CPE |
CRM | Constituent Relationship Management | Terminology |
CSF | Cross-School Fund | Terminology; Finance |
CT/d | Consortium for Transdisciplinarity | Center/Institute |
CUE | Committee on Undergraduate Education | Committee; Parsons |
CUI | Controlled Unclassified Information | Terminology; IT |
CYNCA | Center for New York City Affairs | Center/Institute; SPE |
D
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
DAE | Development and Alumni Engagement | Department; DAE |
DEED | Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design Lab | Center/Institute; Parsons |
DEL | Digital Equity Lab | Center/Institute; SPE |
DESIS | Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Lab | Center/Institute; Parsons |
Dev | Development (and Alumni Engagement) | Department; DAE |
DLTS | Digital Libraries and Technical Services | Department; LCAS |
DO | Dean's Office | Department |
DPIA | Data Protection Impact Assessment | Terminology; IT |
DT | Design & Technology | Program/Degree; Parsons |
DUE | MS Design of Urban Ecologies | Program/Degree; Parsons |
E
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
E&S | Enrollment and Success (retired - now Enrollment Management & Strategic Partnerships) | Department; EMSP |
EDISJ | Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice | Terminology |
EE | Extended-Employment Appointment | Role |
ELA | Experience Learning Agreement | Terminology; Lang |
ELab | (Parsons) Entrepreneurial Lab | Center/Institute; Parsons |
ELP | Electronic Learning Portfolio | Terminology |
EML | Engage Media Lab | Center/Institute; SPE |
EMSP | Enrollment Management & Strategic Partnerships | Department; EMSP |
EPSM | Environmental Policy and Sustainable Management | Program/Degree; SPE |
EQC | Equipment Center at Arnold Hall | Department; IT |
ERT | Committee | |
ESG | Environment and Social Justice | Terminology |
F
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
F&B | Department; B&O | |
FCOG | Fall Campus Operations Group | Committee |
FEI | Frequently Encountered Issues | Terminology |
FISMA | Federal Information Security Management Act | Terminology; IT |
FN | Terminology; Finance | |
FOAP | Fund Organization Account Program (i.e worktag) | Terminology; Finance |
FRC | Faculty Resource Center | Space |
FTC | Committee | |
FTF | Full-Time Faculty | Role |
FWA | Flexible Working Arrangement (i.e. compressed schedule) | Role |
FWS | Federal Work Study | Role |
FY | Fiscal Year | Terminology; Finance |
G
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
GAAP | Terminology, F&B | |
GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation | Terminology; IT |
GEA | Government & External Affairs | Department |
GEISS | Global Engagement and International Support Services | Department; EMSP |
GEMS | Global Executive MS | Program/Degree; CPE |
GF | Terminology; Finance | |
GIDEST | Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography, and Social Thought | Center/Institute |
GLBA | Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act | Terminology; IT |
GLUE | Global, Urban and Environmental Studies | Program/Degree; SPE |
GPIA | Graduate Programs in International Affairs | Program/Degree; SPE |
GR | Terminology; Finance | |
GRF | General Research Fund | Terminology; Finance |
GSSI | Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute | Center/Institute |
H
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
HEOP/IS | Higher Education Opportunity Program / Intercultural Support | Department; Success |
HGL | Role | |
HIPAA | Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act | Terminology; IT |
HML | (Parsons) Healthy Materials Lab | Center/Institute; Parsons |
HR | Department; HR | |
HRE | Housing & Residential Education | Department; Success |
I
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
IC | Role; B&O | |
ICC | Independent Contractor Certification (retired) | Terminology; B&O |
ICDE | Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy | Center/Institute |
ICI | India China Institute | Center/Institute |
ICSI | Institute for Critical Social Inquiry | Center/Institute |
IEF | Innovations in Education Fund | Terminology |
IEI | Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative | Program/Degree |
IPNH | Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities | Center/Institute; NSSR |
IR | Institutional Research and Effectiveness (retired - now Institutional Research and Decision Support) | Department; IR |
IRB | Institutional Review Board | Committee |
IRDS | Institutional Research and Decision Support | Department; IR |
IRPE | Institute on Race and Political Economy (retired - now Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy) | Center/Institute; PO |
IRPPE | Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy | Center/Institute; PO |
Department; IT | ||
ISPP | Information Security and Privacy Program | Terminology; IT |
ISPPO | Initiative for the Study of Power, Politics, and Organizing in the United States | Center/Institute; NSSR |
ISRSPE | Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification, and Political Economy (retired - now Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy) | Center/Institute; PO |
ISSS | International Student and Scholar Services | Department; Success |
IT | Information Technology | Department; IT |
ITPPMO | Department; IT |
J
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
JV | Journal Voucher | Terminology; B&O |
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L
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
Lang | Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts | College/School; Lang |
LCAS | Libraries, Collections and Academic Services | Department; LCAS |
LMS | Learning Management System (i.e. Canvas) | Terminology |
LP | Learning Portfolio | Terminology |
M
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
M&C | Marketing and Communication | Department; M&C |
MA AME | MA Arts Management and Entrepreneurship | Program/Degree; CoPA |
MA TESOL | Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages Program (MA) | Program/Degree; SPE |
MArch | Master of Architecture | Program/Degree; Parsons |
MC | Making Center | Department; Parsons |
MDW | My Digital Workspace | Terminology; IT |
Milano | Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment | College/School; SPE |
MNS | MyNewSource or MyNewSchool | Terminology |
MOU | Memorandum of Understanding | Terminology |
MPhil | Master of Philosophy | Program/Degree; NSSR |
MS SDM | MS Strategic Design and Management | Program/Degree; Parsons |
N
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
NSFP | New School Free Press | Terminology |
NSPE | New School of Public Engagement (retired) | College/School; SPE |
NSSR | The New School for Social Research | College/School; NSSR |
NSU | New School University (retired) | College/School |
O
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
OCSE | On-Campus Student Employees | Role |
OGC | Office of the General Counsel | Department; OGC |
OHS | Office for Environmental Health and Safety | Department; Buildings |
OIS | Office of Intercultural Support | Department; Success |
OLA | Observatory on Latin America | Center/Institute; SPE |
OMP | Online Marketing Platforms | Department; M&C |
OTP | Orientation and Transition Programs | Department; Success |
OTPS | Other Than Personnel Services | Terminology; B&O |
P
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
PA | Program Administrator | Role |
Parsons | Parsons School of Design | College/School; Parsons |
PCC | Parsons Curriculum Committee | Committee; Parsons |
PCC | Platform Cooperative Consortium (part of the ICDE) | Center/Institute |
PCI | Payment Card Industry | Terminology |
PFA | Parsons Faculty Assembly | Committee; Parsons |
PFC | Parsons Faculty Council | Committee; Parsons |
PFI | Personal Financial Information | Terminology; IT |
PG | Terminology; Finance | |
PGP | Preferred Gender Pronoun | Terminology |
PHI | Protected Health Information | Terminology; IT |
PII | Personally Identifying Information | Terminology; IT |
PIIM | Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (retired) | Program/Degree; Parsons |
PIO | Process Improvement Office (retired) | Department; B&O |
PJ | Terminology; Finance | |
PLT | President's Leadership Team | Terminology |
PO | Provost Office | Department; PO |
PPMO | Department; IT | |
PPR | Post-Probationary Review | Terminology |
PRO | Pre-Recruitment Orientation | Terminology; Success |
PS | Personnel Services | Terminology; B&O |
PSA | Professional Services Agreement | Terminology; B&O |
PSC | Parsons Staff Council | Committee; Parsons |
PSD | Parsons School of Design | College/School; Parsons |
PSP | Parsons Scholars Program | Program/Degree; Parsons |
PTF | Part-Time Faculty | Role |
PTFA | Part-Time Faculty Affairs | Department; PO |
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R
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
RA | Research Assistant | Role |
RFP | Request for Proposal | Terminology |
RIS | Research and Instructional Services | Department; LCAS |
RSCP | Research, Scholarship, and Creative Practice | Terminology |
RTA | Renewable-Term Appointment | Role |
S
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
SAS | Department; PO | |
SBF | School-Based Fund | Terminology; Finance |
SC | Terminology; Finance | |
SCC | School Curriculum Committee | Committee; Parsons |
SCE | School of Constructed Environments | College/School; Parsons |
SCEPA | Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis | Center/Institute; NSSR |
SCOG | Summer Campus Operations Group | Committee |
SDS | School of Design Strategies | College/School; Parsons |
SEG | Social, Environmental and Governance | Terminology |
SEM | Strategic Enrollment Management (retired) | Department; EMSP |
SES | Socioeconomic Status | Terminology |
SFS | Student Financial Services (Financial Aid + Student Accounts) | Department; EMSP |
SGC | Committee | |
SGPIA | Julien. J. Studley Graduate Programs of International Affairs | College/School; SPE |
SHRP | Role; HR | |
SHS | Student Health Services | Department; Success |
SIS | Summer Intensive Studies | Program/Degree; CPE |
SJDC | Sheila C. Johnson Design Center | Center/Institute; Parsons |
SLC | School Leadership Council | Committee; Parsons |
SLI | Student Leadership and Involvement | Department; Success |
SME | Subject Matter Expert | Terminology |
SOA | Senior Office Assistant | Role |
SoF | School of Fashion | College/School; Parsons |
SOW | Statement of Work | Terminology; Finance |
SPE | School of Public Engagement | College/School; SPE |
SPQ | Service Provider Questionnaire (retired) | Terminology; B&O |
SRAF | Student Research Assistant Fund | Terminology; Finance |
SSCM | Student Support and Crisis Management | Department; Success |
SUS | School of Undergraduate Studies (retired) | College/School; SPE |
SVS | Student Veteran Services | Department; Success |
T
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
T1C | Role; HR | |
TA | Teaching Assistant | Role |
TCDS | Transregional Center for Democratic Studies | Center/Institute |
TD | MFA Transdisciplinary Design | Program/Degree; Parsons |
TEDC | Tishman Environment and Design Center | Center/Institute |
TF | Teaching Fellow | Role |
TNS | The New School | College/School |
TUP | MA Theories of Urban Practice | Program/Degree; Parsons |
TWA | Telecommuting Working Arrangement | Role |
U
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
UBC | Committee | |
UC | University Center | Space |
UDARO | University Development and Alumni Relations Office (retired) | Department; DAE |
UFGC | University Faculty Grievance Committee | Committee |
UIC | University Initiatives Coordination (retired) | Committee |
UIE | New University in Exile Consortium | Center/Institute; NSSR |
ULC | University Learning Center | Department; LCAS |
ULEC | University Lecture Courses | Terminology |
UPL | University Planning Leadership (retired) | Committee |
UPRC | University Promotion Review Committee | Committee |
USL | Urban Systems Lab | Center/Institute |
UTRC | University Term Review Committee | Committee |
V
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
VLC | Vera List Center | Center/Institute |
W
Acronym | Term or Definition | Category and Affiliation |
WCQ | Worker Classification Questionnaire (retired) | Terminology; B&O |
WD | Terminology |
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