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Professional and administrative personnel with 1) Duties that are exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); and 2) Perform work that is primarily associated with higher education institutions or their administration.

1. Academic Staff are respected professionals who hold positions in virtually every unit on campus. These positions are either unique to higher education and/or provide direct support for academic programming and/or develop and implement policies at UW-Madison. The academic staff contribute daily to the quality and reputation of a University recognized and respected around the world. Learn more. 

Academic Staff: a professional and administrative employee whose duties are exempt from the overtime provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and who performs work that is primarily associated with a higher education institution or its administration.

The process of combining multiple accounts into a single account during the transition to Office 365.

1. The Accounting Team offers support with non-credit custom course contracts, credit courses accounting administration, research and effort administration, hotel contracts, academic support service agreements, accounts receivable, travel expense reports, credit card payment authorizations, and supplies orders.

The amount of sick leave, vacation, vacation carryover, personal holiday, legal holiday and banked leave an employee has earned based on the number of hours in pay status.

UW-Madison Business Services list of acronyms often used in business processes: http://www.bussvc.wisc.edu/acronym/acronym.html

Automatic Document Feeder. In a scanner device, an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) is a feature which takes several pages and feeds the paper one page at a time into a scanner.

An organization's administrative point of contact, responsible for assigning staff time to the Office 365 transition. Communicates with the Office 365 Team and their organization's leadership.

A leadership role such as dean or associate dean that falls into the employee category of Limited.  A Limited appointee serves at the discretion of the appointing authority.

1. AEN Number is another name for the Clone ID [KB Clone IDClone ID] or curriculum ID [KB Curriculum IDCurriculum ID].

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In Office 365, an alternate address is any email address associated with your account that is not your primary address. Any NetID or Service account may have any number of email addresses associated with it. These email addresses includes, but is not limited to, previous alias/alternates accounts and/or user/role/service accounts that have been consolidated with the NetID.

Ancillary Committees (ANC) are committees that have oversight for specific areas of a submission, such as investigational drugs, conflict of interest, or Veterans Affairs (VA) issues. These committees do not issue approval for the study a whole; only for their areas of oversight.

The IRB will forward submissions to the appropriate ancillary committee if review is needed and has not yet been provided. Ancillary committees may request  documentation from the study team that is additional to the IRB application completed in ARROW.

In Perceptive Content imaging software, annotations are used to mark up and add comments to a document without affecting the original image.  Annotations enable you to select, add notes to, or even block out parts of a document.  The file types that support annotations are: TIFF (.tif), JPEG (.jpg), Bitmap (.bmp), GIF (.gif), and PNG (.png).

The L&S Academic Planning Council, or APC, advises the Dean on planning, program, and fiscal matters, and thus plays an important role in College governance activities.  The Dean chairs the Council's weekly meetings, where topics that affect the whole college (and often, the rest of the university) are discussed by elected and appointed members. Academic and Administrative Deans serve as ex Officio observers to advise the council. Agendas are prepared by the Assistant Dean for Academic Planning, in consultation with the Dean and Associate Deans.  For more information, see the Administrative Gateway document, What is the L&S Academic Planning Council? .

Job seeker who has applied for the vacancy.

An Application Plan defines index keys of a document. It is created in the Perceptive Content Management Console and set in a Capture Profile.

The action of an appointing authority to place a person in a position within the agency in accordance with the law and the Rules of the Administrator, Division of Merit Recruitment and Selection (DMRS). An appointment is effective when the employee reports for work or is in paid leave status on the agreed starting date and time.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB Staff Reviewer, IRB Director or IRB Member to approve a submission that is in the expedited approval state.  An activity form needs to be completed and then the state will switch to approved.

This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB Staff Reviewer or IRB Director to approve a submission in the facilitated review state.  An activity form needs to be completed and then the state will switch to approved.

This is a state in ARROW. Studies in the Approved state have been reviewed and fully approved by the IRB and relevant ancillary committees, if any.

Academic Staff Policies and Procedures.  For more information, visit the Secretary of Academic Staff website: http://acstaff.wisc.edu/resources/policies-and-procedures

1. ASSA (Academic Support Service Agreement) is any instructional or professional consulting service, provided by an individual or company that is unique (sole source) and is specifically related to the University's mission of education, research, or public service. This document is completed by UW Purchasing. Payment to an EPD speaker with an ASSA cannot be completed until the ASSA is fully executed by UW Purchasing. An ASSA is required if the speaker is being paid more than $5,000 over a 12 month period of time.

• Provides data/information needed regarding student learning;
  
• Engages the institution (faculty, staff, students) in analyzing and using this data/information to confirm and improve teaching and learning;
• Produces evidence that students are learning the outcomes identified by the faculty;
  
• Guides educational and institutional improvement; and
  
• Helps the institution understand, evaluate and document whether changes made affect student learning

1. How are your stated learning outcomes appropriate to your mission, programs, students and degrees?
2. How do you ensure shared responsibility for student learning & assessment of student learning?
3. What evidence do you have that students achieve your stated learning outcomes?
4. In what ways do you analyze and use evidence of student learning?
5. How do you evaluate and improve the effectiveness of your efforts to assess and improve student learning?

In the course of an accreditation review, external consultant/evaluators will gauge the extent to which the university has engaged in assessment for purposes of improving student learning, and used what we find to improve student learning.

1. Asynchronous learning is a student-centered teaching method that uses online learning resources to facilitate instruction that is not being delivered in person or in real time.  Discussion forums and recorded lectures are examples of asynchronous components in an online course.
   

A KB User who, may edit documents. Authors may or may not be able to publish documents and all follow their KB Group's agreed upon document workflow.

Exchange Autodiscover is a web service that helps Microsoft Exchange administrators configure user profile settings for clients running Outlook ProPlus/2019/2016. It allows users to easily configure their email client knowing only their email address and password.

Also known as a vacation message or an out of office message. Automatic reply is a rule that can be set in your Office 365 account that will automatically reply to incoming emails with a preset response for a preset amount of time.