Federal | National | NCSU/OIRP | UNC System Office | UNC
Following are descriptions for acronyms and abbreviations that will help the reader navigate our website, the university, and the computing environment at OIRP.
Federal
| CIP | Classification of Instructional Programs (revised HEGIS code) |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| FSA | Federal Student Aid |
| HEGIS | Higher Education General Information Survey (1970) |
| HEOA | Higher Education Opportunity Act |
| IPEDS | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System |
| NCES | National Center for Educational Statistics |
| OCR | Office of Civil Rights |
| OPE | Office of Postsecondary Education |
| SOC | Standard Occupational Classification System |
| SRK | Student Right to Know [legislation and regulations] |
National
| AAHE | American Association for Higher Education |
| AIR | Association for Institutional Research |
| ASHE | Association for the Study of Higher Education |
| CSRDE | Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange |
| NACUBO | Nat. Assoc. of College and University Business Officers |
| NCAIR | North Carolina AIR |
| NEAIR | North East AIR |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| SACSCOC | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges |
| SAIR | Southern AIR |
| SCAIR | South Carolina AIR |
| SCUP | Society for College and University Planning |
| SESUG | Southeast SAS Users Group |
| SHEEO | State Higher Education Executive Officers |
| SREB | Southern Regional Education Board (Atlanta) |
| SUG | Southern University Group |
NCSU/OIRP
| CQI | Continuous Quality Improvement |
| HRDM | Human Resource Data Mart |
| IE | Institutional Effectivness |
| IR | Institutional Research |
| OUC | Organizational Unit Code (for each accounting entity) |
| Personnel Data File | |
| SDF | Student Data File |
| SDFX | Student Data File eXtended version (NCSU) |
| SDM | Student Data Mart |
| SPM | Space Planning and Management |
| OIRP | Office of Institutional Research and Planning |
UNC System Office
| API | Academic Program Inventory |
| EPA | Exempt (from) Personnel Act (ended 2017) |
| EHRA | Exempt (from) Human Resources Act (started 2017) |
| HEFC | Higher Education Facilities Commission |
| NCHED | North Carolina Higher Education Department |
| SHRA | Subject (to) Human Resources Act (started 2017) |
| SPA | Subject (to) Personnel Act (ended 2017) |
| SPRE | State Post-Secondary Eligibility Review [Agency] |
| UNC-GA | University of North Carolina-General Administration (ended 2018) |
| UNC-SO | University of North Carolina System Office (started 2018) |
UNC
| Curriculum | Set of courses leading to a degree program |
| Program | Degree Program: discipline and level of degree |
| Track | Alternative set of courses for a degree program |