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Department Stationery and University Brand Guidelines
Ohio State has extensive brand guidelines for images, color palette, etc. on their brand website. Some particularly useful information on that page includes:
- The university's extended color palette
- The university's typography guidelines
- The university's PowerPoint templates
- The university's tool to create your email signature
[pdf] - Some links on this page are to Adobe .pdf files requiring the use of Adobe Reader. If you need these files in a more accessible format, please contact english.communications@osu.edu.
[pptx] - Some links on this page are to PowerPoint .pptx files. If you need these files in a more accessible format, please contact english.communications@osu.edu.
Department and university acronyms
- 04 Rule: The faculty rule that gives the policies and procedures for handling complaints about faculty members
- ARP: Alternate Retirement Plan
- ASC: College of Arts and Sciences
- AW: Advanced Writing
- AWP: Association of Writers and Writing Programs: holds major creative writing conference every year that MFA students and faculty attend
- AY: Academic Year
- B&F: Business and Finance Office (university)
- BOT: Board of Trustees (university)
- BTAA: Big Ten Academic Alliance (academic arm of the Big Ten)
- CAA: Council on Academic Affairs (university curriculum committee)
- CCCC (or "4 Cs"): Conference on College Composition and Communication: major national professional association for scholars of literary, communication, rhetoric and writing
- COAM: Committee on Academic Misconduct (report plagiarism and other undergraduate academic misconduct)
- CSTW: Center for the Study of Teaching and Writing
- CY: Calendar Year (starts January 1)
- DARS: Degree audit
- DE: Denney Hall
- DL: Distance learning course (100% virtual)
- DMAC: Digital Media and Composition institute--summer institute for graduate students and faculty from around the world
- DMP: Digital Media Project (directed by Elizabeth Falter)
- EDC: English Department Council. Meets monthly and includes all faculty and staff as well as undergraduate and graduate student representatives
- EGO: English Graduate Organization
- ENGL: Registrar's prefix for courses offered by English
- EUGO: English Undergraduate Organization
- FIT: Faculty Foundation, Impact, Transformation program: year-long program for new faculty administered by the Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning
- FOD: Facilities, Operations, and Development, a department within the Office of Administration and Planning (handles building management)
- FPL: Faculty Professional Leave (sabbatical for tenure-track faculty)
- FTE: Full time equivalent (HR term for appointment time)
- FY: Fiscal year (starts July 1)
- GE: General Education curriculum (required of all undergraduats)
- GEL: General Education--legacy (registrar's code for GE for students who enrolled prior to fall 2022)
- GEN: General Education--new (registrar's code for new GE, which launches fall 2022)
- GFR: Graduate Faculty Representative
- H: Honors course (when following a course number)
- HR: Human Resources
- HY: Hybrid Delivery course (25-74% virtual delivery)
- MCC: Multicultural Center (Ohio Union)
- MFA program: 3-year degree program (Master of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing
- MLA: Modern Language Association (professional organization for English faculty and graduate students)
- OAA: Office of Academic Affairs (provost's office--chief academic office)
- ODI: Office of Diversity and Inclusion (university office)
- OIA: Office of International Affairs
- OTDI: Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (includes the office formerly known as OCIO, which was formerly known as OIT)
- OPERS: Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (staff pension fund)
- P: Registrar's marker for a course that is offered 100% in person
- PCard: Visa card that can be used to pay for business expenses (see Sarah Beaumont-White)
- PI: Principal Investigator (used when submitting grants)
- PN: Project Narrative (directed by Professor Jim Phelan)
- PNSI: Project Narrative summer institute (non-credit program for researchers outside of Ohio State)
- PO: Purchase Order
- P and T: Promotion and Tenure
- RAISE: Race, Inclusion and Social Equity initiative: university program for recruiting faculty doing research on these topics
- RPAC: Recreation and Physical Activities Center (next door to Ohio Stadium)
- S: Service learning course (when following a course number)
- SA: Special Assignment (shifting a course assignment for a faculty member to a dedicated service or research project)
- SIS: Student Information System (Buckeye Link Class Search)
- SLDS: Student Life Disability Services
- SPO: Sponsored Program Officer (handles large grants from outside the university)
- STRS: State Teachers Retirement System (pension plan)
- TBDBITL: Ohio State marching band
- TIU: Tenure-initiating unit (English serves as the TIU for most of its tenure-track faculty)
- T/R: Tuesday/Thursday class ("R" stands for Thursday on the university calendar)
- UH: University Hall (location of ASC dean's offices)
- WAC: Writing across the Curriculum
- WIL: Writing and Information Literacy--new name for first-year writing; every English 1110 course fits into this category
- WRL: Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy (area group within the department)