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Purdue acronyms
If you haven't noticed, Purdue has a number of acronyms and acadmic lingo. We have complied a list to help decipher common Purdue acronyms/terms.
- AAMB: All-American Marching Band
- Advising: Your advisor is here to help you on your student with their Purdue journey
- BoilerConnect: The system used to make appointments to meet with an advisor.
- BGR: Boiler Gold Rush - an optional (but highly regarded!) week-long orientation that begins on August 15 and runs through the start of classes
- BGRi: Boiler Gold Rush International: Purdue's orientation for international students
- Callout: The first meeting of a student organization, a time for your student to see if they want to join
- CAPS: Counseling and Psychological Services
- CCO: Center for Career Opportunities
- Co-Curricular Learning: Co-curricular refers to activities, programs, and learning experiences that complement, in some way, what students are learning in school—i.e., experiences that are connected to or mirror the academic curriculum. Co-curricular activities are typically, but not always, defined by their separation from academic courses
- CODO: Change Of Degree Objective--the official term for the process of changing your major
- Core Curriculum: University Core Curriculum--a set of courses/learning objectives that all Purdue students must achieve to graduate
- CoRec: France A. Cordova Recreational Sports Center - the gym
- Credit Hour: A unit of measurement for college courses used to track instructional time spent in class. At Purdue, roughly 1 credit is awarded for 50 minutes in class
- CRF: Course Request Form - Your student will work with their advisor about courses to take for their first semester. Students will submit a course request form with their desired courses and will receive their schedule at a later date
- DFA: Division of Financial Aid
- DRC: Disability Resource Center
- FYE: First Year Engineering
- HICKS: Undergraduate Library (literally underground) outside of Stewart Center
- Holds: Used to notify students of required actions. If actions are not completed your account is "held" and students need to complete the task before moving on
- HSSE: Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Library (Pronounced: Hiss-see). A lot of libraries/building codes could be used on this, but HSSE is a campus landmark
- Hybrid: Courses that are taught as a hybrid have some instructional time in a classroom, and the rest of the instruction is done by you online during the week
- ISS: International Students and Scholars
- LC: Learning Communities
- MTWRF: Abbreviations for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in most computer systems at Purdue. Note that Thursday is the “R”!
- Major/Minor: Your student's major is the primary area of study in which they will earn their degree. Their minor is an optional additional area of focus
- ODOS: Office of the Dean of Students
- Office Hours: set times where course instructors may provide time to meet with students for questions or help in their course
- Open Registration: The time in which all students can modify their schedules in real-time
- OPP: Office of Professional Practice, which manages our co-op program
- PAA: Purdue Alumni Association (their student organization is PASE, Purdue Alumni Student Experience)
- PFM: Purdue’s for Me - our admitted student event
- PMO: Purdue Musical Organizations
- PMU: Purdue Memorial Union
- Prerequisites: Courses or requirements that must be completed prior to enrolling in an advanced course
- Pre-Registration: A process used to collect all students' course request forms and provide students their course schedules
- PUID: Purdue University ID number
- PUDM: Purdue University Dance Marathon
- PUSH: Purdue University Student Health Center
- RA: Resident Assistant
- REC: Resident Education Coordinator
- SA: Study Abroad
- Syllabus: Every class will provide this. It is your student's guide to understanding the course
- Synchronous: Another way that a distance or online course is offered is Synchronous, which means there are set times each week that your student will watch lectures and interact with the material. The assigned virtual class time will be listed on their schedule
- UCC- University Core Curriculum: A common curriculum woven throughout all majors at Purdue
- WALC: Wilmeth Active Learning Center