Acronym & Initialism List

SOME COMMONLY USED ACRONYMS, INITIALISMS, & VOCABULARY TO KNOW

3MT Three Minute Thesis A&NEL, Asian & Near Eastern Languages

ASNEL

AA Associate of Arts Degree (not Alcoholics Anonymous) AAC Administrative Advisory Council ABD All But Dissertation ACMRS Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies ACTFL American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages ACTFL– American Council on the NYSAFLT Teaching of Foreign Languages New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers AD Anno Domini ADA Americans with Disabilities Act AH Anno Hegirae or Arts and Humanities APA American Psychological Association (style/format) ASB, Abraham Smoot Building or SOB Smoot Office Building (used on occasion by disgruntled administrators) Assessalot Training Retreat for College Faculty ASI Annual Stewardship Interview AVP Academic Vice President BA Bachelor of Arts Degree BS Bachelor of Science Degree BTWH Berkeley-Tübingen-Wien-Harvard BYU, Brigham Young University, The BYU BYU, to pre-Wilkinson era alumni CAC College Administrative Council CAL Comparative Arts & Letters CALL Computer-Assisted Language Learning CAPS BYU Counseling and Psychological Services CAS Central Authentication Service (login protocol for web, where you enter your NetID and password) CEA College English Association CFS Continuing Faculty Status CLIPS C Language Integrated Production System CLS Center for Language Studies CLVS College Leadership Visiting Services CPMS BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Cosplay What happens on campus when Halloween falls on a weekday . CSR Computer Support Representative CSS Cascading Style Sheet (format) CTL Center for Teaching and Learning DH Digital Humanities DigHT Digital Humanities and Technology, the Digital Humanities and Technology Minor DMaC Digital Media & Communications Team DMBA Deseret Mutual Benefit Administrators EIZ Education in Zion ELC English Language Center EMISAJ Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures Journal EOO Equal Opportunity Office ESCP École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris ESL English as a Second Language ESSWE European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism FAC Faculty Advisory Council

FERPA The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act FHSS BYU College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences FLAC Foreign Language Activity Commons FLATS Foreign Language Achievement Testing Services FLSR Foreign Language Student Housing FPS Faculty Publishing Service or Faculty Profile System GE General Education HBLL Harold B . Lee Library HC Humanities Center HEC Shortened, anglicized form of ESCP HLC Humanities Leadership Council HLR Humanities Learning Resources HMEG Humanities Mentoring Grant HR BYU Human Resources Office HRCB Herald R . Clark Building HTML Hypertext Markup Language (format) HUM Humanities HUMGrant, Humanities Grant HumGrant (Formerly ORCA Grant) HUMBUG A Flaw in DH Code HUMDINGER A Humanities homerun IC International Cinema ICALL Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning ISLA Instructed Second-Language Acquisition JFSB Joseph F . Smith Building JKB Jesse Knight Building JKHB Jesse Knight Humanities Building, to pre-millennial alumni JSB Joseph Smith Building KC BYU Kennedy Center (Provo, not D .C .) KMBL Spencer W . Kimball Tower (formerly SWKT) LAAC Liberal Arts Advisement & Careers LARC Language Acquisition Research Conference LDS Latter-day Saints, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints LDSP LDS Philanthropies LEP Limited Enrollment Program LocLand Event held by The Translation and Localization Club MA Master of Arts Degree MC Master of Ceremonies MARS BYU Medieval & Renaissance Studies MEd Master of Education Degree MFA Master of Fine Arts Degree MLA Modern Language Association MOA BYU Museum of Art MTC Missionary Training Center NCAA National Collegiate Athletic Association NEA National Endowment for the Arts NEH National Endowment for the Humanities NFL National Football League NTSC National Television System Committee (format) ODH Office of Digital Humanities OIT BYU Office of Information Technology OPI Oral Proficiency Interview ORCA Office of Research and Creative Activities PAL Phase Alternating Line (format) PhD Doctor of Philosophy Degree

QPR Question . Persuade . Refer . (suicide prevention steps) R&S Rank and Status RM Returned Missionaries RWC Research and Writing Center SAC Student Advisory Council SECAM Sequential Color and Memory (format) SEO Search Engine Optimization SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London TBD To Be Determined TESL Teaching English as a Second Language TESOL Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages TS Translation Studies UC University of California UCLA University of California, Los Angeles UCOTE University Council on Teacher Education UI User Interface UEP Universal Enrollment Program UN United Nations UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista UVU Utah Valley University UX User Experience WSR Web Support Representative Y, The Y BYU (not the YMCA) YA Young Adult YANCON Young Adult Novel Conference YSA Young Single Adult