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EAOEmployee Assistance Office.  The Employee Assistance Office is a resource provided by the University of Wisconsin to assist employees and their immediate family members or significant others who are finding it difficult to successfully cope with personal or work related issues and concerns.  http://eao.wisc.edu/
ECMS

Enterprise Content Management Service. Another name for ImageNow.

Edit External Personnel AccessThis is an activity in ARROW.  This activity is available to the study team in all states including withdrawn, archived, closed, etc. All users listed received edit and read access.  No POC or email access is granted.  This is not displayed in other workflows and is not included in Personnel Changes. 
eForms

Interactive forms accessible via web browser. When submitted, a document is created in ImageNow.

Email Address
An email address identifies the account that messages should be delivered (e.g., bbadger@wisc.edu). An account can have multiple email addresses. Each account in Office 365 has only one primary address, but an account can have multiple alternate addresses. An account will accept email for any email address on the account.
Emeritus Staff
  1. Emeritus Staff The status of Emeritus/Emerita is an honorary title conferred upon individuals who have had permanent employment at UW-Madison, are 55 years of age or older, and have completed a minimum of ten years of distinguished service. 
Employee of the Board of Regents
All employees of UW–Madison (including University Staff). Prior to July 1 2015, classified employees were under the provisions of Wis. Stat. Chapter 230 and were still limited to the $12,000 statutory cap.
Employee-in-TrainingPersons holding a title in the Employees-in-Training title group are normally acquiring additional training or experience in their field of specialization. Two examples of Employees-in-Training titles are Postdoctoral Fellow and Postgraduate Trainee.
Source: Office of Human Resources, Unclassified Title Guideline: Summary of Unclassified Appointment Types

Entourage
Microsoft's previous email and calendar application for Mac OS computers. Support for Entourage ended on May 31, 2012. The new client is called Outlook for Mac.
EPD Academic Staff Committee
  1. EPD Academic Staff Committee This committee assists department academic staff with information about academic staff governance and promotions. They are also connected with the college-wide CASI: Committee on Academic Staff Issues which advises the College of Engineering dean on academic staff policy and procedure formulation, review and development, in compliance with campus policies and procedures.
EPD Customer Service
  1. EPD Customer Service is responsible for taking calls and emails from customers. Located in the phone room (Room 705).
EPD Executive Committee
  1. The EPD Executive Committee is a department faculty committee that is required by the UW–Madison Faculty Policies and Procedures.
    Membership consists of:
    • All members of the department who are associate professors or professors and to whom the department has a continuing commitment of one-half time or more.
    • Professors and associate professors in the department to whom the department has a continuing commitment of less than one-half time, but for whom that department was the principal sponsor of the appointment. (See Chapter 7 of these rules.)
    • Other faculty members having tenure who have been granted joint executive appointments by action of that executive committee.

    Functions:

    The departmental executive committee has authority to make recommendations concerning faculty appointments, recruitment, leaves, nonretentions, dismissals, promotions, and salaries and other departmental budget matters, which are transmitted through the chair to the dean.
EPD Mission Statement
  1. The EPD mission is to provide engineering and technical professionals with the knowledge and skills to benefit their careers, industry, and society.
EPD Production Team
  1. The EPD Production Team focuses on defining and documenting processes classifying and categorizing files, and establishing workflows involved in the production of notebooks and promotional materials for the EPD.
ESREthnic Studies Requirement, one of the requirements that are part of the university-wide undergraduate General Education Requirements.  See also:
ET Help
  1. ET Help is the team that can address issues in our internal database system.
ETF(Department of) Employee Trust Funds.  http://etf.wi.gov/
Exchange ActiveSync Protocol
Exchange ActiveSync (also known as EAS) is a communications protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. The protocol also provides mobile device management and policy controls.
Exchange Protocol
A service -- similar to IMAP, POP3, and ActiveSync -- that works to transfer and synchronize email/calendar information between the server and the end user's client.
Exempt Staff
Staff who are not subject to the overtime pay or compensatory time off provisions of federal and state wage laws.
Exemption GrantedThis is a state in ARROW.  Applications in this state have undergone review by an IRB staff reviewer and determined to qualify for exemption. In this state, the study team can submit changes of protocol, personnel changes, and reportable events, as well as report study completion.  
Exit
An Exit link appears at the top of all ARROW application. Clicking this link exits the application, not the ARROW system. Always click Save before clicking Exit to make sure data is not lost.
Extend Exemption
This is an activity in ARROW that allows the study team to automatically set a new 5 year renewal period for the exemption if the activities are not yet complete.  The study team must provide attestation of exempt status of study.  There is no limited on the use of the “Extend Exemption” activity, as long as the activities conducted under the exemption are not yet complete and the the exempt status of the study has not changed.
Extraordinary Salary Range (ESR)
An approved salary range that is greater than the assigned range for the title. An ESR is associated with one of the following 1) An incumbent position, 2) A title (e.g., clinical anesthetist), or 3) A portion of a title series (e.g., nurse practitioners, within the clinical nurse specialist series).