A-basis
Salary rate computed on a twelve-month, annual basis.
Academic Staff
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.
Academic Staff
Academic Staff: a professional and administrative employee other than faculty with duties and types of appointments that are primarily associated with higher education institutions or their administration. Each academic staff has a principal role related to research, teaching, outreach, student services, information technology, libraries, communications, clinical/health services, or other responsibilities.
Academic Staff
Accept Facilitated Review
This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to indicate that facilitated review is appropriate for the submission. This can include: accepting NCI Central IRB approval; deferring the study to a Commercial IRB (e.g. Western IRB) or deferral of the study to another institution's IRB.
Account Consolidation
The process of combining multiple accounts into a single account during the transition to Office 365.
Accounting and Financial Team
Accrued Leave
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.
Acknowledge Reportable Event
This is an activity in ARROW that allows the IRB staff reviewer to acknowledge receipt of a reportable event that does not require further IRB review. Upon acknowledgement, the study will return to the approved state.
ACSSS*
Activity
An activity is an action that you can take for a submission. For example, if a study team wants to respond to pre-review issues, they would use the Send Issues Response activity. Activities are always listed on the left of each study workspace. The list of activities changes based on a user's role in ARROW and what state a submission is in.
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act. See also: http://www.ada.gov/
ADF
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.
Administrative Contact
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.
Administrative Limited Appointment
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.
AEN Number
AG (Administrative Gateway)
This term refers to the L&S Administrative Gateway, this specific KnowledgeBase website.
Against the grain
at right angles to direction of paper grain. Opposite of paper grain direction
Alternate Address
Ancillary Committee (ANC)
Annotations
APC
APO
Applicant
Application Plan
Appointment
Approve Expedited Application
Approve Facilitated Application
Approve Request to Reopen
Approved
Approved with Administrative Hold
Archived
ARMS
ASPP
ASSA
Assessment of Student Learning
Assigned to IRB Meeting
Asynchronous
Authors
Autodiscover
Automatic Reply
Awaiting Correspondence
Awaiting Scientific Review