General Acronym Listing by Letter

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C
CA	Community Advisor
	other notes:	Formerly Orientation Leader

CAAP	Center for Advanced Abrasive Processes

CAC	Colleges Against Cancer

CAI	Committee on Academic Issues
	pronunciation:	'chi'
	other notes:	part of SGA

CAIRN	Center for Advanced Integrated Radio Navigation
	pronunciation:	'karen'
	Web address:	http://www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/CAIRN/

CAML	Computer Aided Manufacturing Laboratory
	pronunciation:	'Cam-Lab'
	Web address:	http://www.me.wpi.edu/Research/CAMLab/

CAN	Career Alumni Network

CAO	Committee on Academic Operations
	other notes:	faculty committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Campus/Faculty/CAO/

CAP	Committee on Academic Policy
	pronunciation:	'cap'
	other notes:	faculty committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Campus/Faculty/CAP/

CAP	Committee on Appointment and Promotions
	pronunciation:	'cap'
	other notes:	faculty committee

CAS	Communicating About Safety
	pronunciation:	CAS 101
	other notes:	Used for the program CAS101, a peer education course for violence against females.
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/SDCC/peered.html

CAS	Central Authentication Service

CASL	Committee on Advising and Student Life
	pronunciation:	'castle'
	other notes:	faculty committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Campus/Faculty/CASL/

CBC	Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
	pronunciation:	'Chem'
	other notes:	academic department
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Chemistry/

CBF	Christian Bible Fellowship
	Web address:	http://users.wpi.edu/~cbf/

CBOD	Class Board of Directors
	pronunciation:	'see-bod'

CBTE	Center for Bioprocessing and Tissue Engineering
	other notes:	part of BEI
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Research/BEI/CBTE/

CC	Courtesy Copy
	other notes:	used in email

CC	Crew Chief
	other notes:	LNL term, the member in charge of a given event

CC	Congestion Control
	other notes:	CS research group

CCAB	Campus Center Advisory Board

CCAC	Center for Communication Across the Curriculum
	pronunciation:	Writing Workshop
	other notes:	a division of HUA
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/HUA/WC/

CCC	Computing and Communications Center
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/CCC/

CCC	College Community Connection
	other notes:	A program in partnership with Worcester Public Schools

CCD	College Comedy Database
	Web address:	http://users.wpi.edu/~improv/ccd/

CCM	Catholic Campus Ministry
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CRC/ministry.html

CCNI	Center for Comparative Neuro Imaging
	other notes:	part of BEI
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Research/BEI/CCNI/

CCNM	Campus Center Night Manager

CCSA	Campus Center and Student Activities
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/SAO

CDC	Career Development Center
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CDC/

CDR	Completion of Degree Requirements
	pronunciation:	'CDR Forms'
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Registrar/Forms/

CE	Continuing Education
	pronunciation:	Continuing Ed.
	other notes:	see CPE
	Web address:	http://www.ce.wpi.edu/

CE	Corporate Education
	pronunciation:	Corporate Ed.
	other notes:	part of DEE
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Corporate/

CE	Chi Epsilon
	Greek letters:	ΧΕ
	other notes:	civil engineering honor society

CEDA	Center for Educational Development and Assessment
	other notes:	formerly CED and CEDTA
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/CEDA/

CEE	Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
	pronunciation:	Civil
	other notes:	academic department
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/CEE/

CeHIPT	Center for eHealth Innovation and Process Transformation
	Web address:	http://www.mgt.wpi.edu/People/cehipt.html

CEI	Collaborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MGT/CEI/

CEO	Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/MGT/CEI/CEOEast/

CEO	Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization

CEPD	Center for Economic Policy and Development
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/SSPS/Research/CEPD/

CEU	Continuing Education Units

CF	Crisis Facilitator

CFD	Computational Fluid Dynamics

CFO	Chief Financial Officer
	other notes:	currently Jeffrey Solomon

CFR	Corporate and Foundation Relations
	other notes:	The Univesity Advancement team charged with building corporate and foundation relationships and giving.
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Corporate/

CFRA	Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Assistance
	other notes:	Committee of SGA responsible for auditing student clubs and organizations

CFS	Center for Firesafety Studies
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Fire/

CFVS	Coalition For Venture Support
	Web address:	http://www.cfvs.org/

CGPL	Computational Gas and Plasma Laboratory
	other notes:	a mechanical engineering lab

CGSR	Committee on Graduate Studies and Research
	other notes:	faculty committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Campus/Faculty/CGSR/

CH	CoffeeHouse
	other notes:	part of SocComm
	Web address:	http://soccomm.wpi.edu/

CHB	Campus Hearing Board

CHE	Chemical Engineering Department
	pronunciation:	'Chem. Eng.'
	other notes:	academic department
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/CHE/

CHO	Chemical Hygiene Officer
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Safety/Laboratory/hygiene.html

CHP	Chemical Hygiene Plan
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Safety/Laboratory/hygiene.html

CHSLT	Center for Holographic Studies and Laser micro/mecha Tonics
	Web address:	http://users.wpi.edu/~chslt/

CHTE	Center for Heat Treating Excellence
	other notes:	part of MPI
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Research/CHTE/

CIMS	Center for Industrial Mathematics and Statistics
	pronunciation:	'sims'
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/Math/CIMS/

CIMS	Center for Inorganic Membrane Studies
	pronunciation:	'sims', IMS
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Depts/CHE/Research/CIMS/

CIO	Chief Information Officer
	other notes:	also VPIT
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/IT/About/tjl.html

CIPM	Corporate Institute of Project Management
	other notes:	A continuing education certificate program.
	Web address:	http://www.ce.wpi.edu/PM/cipm.html

CIS	Center for Imaging and Sensing
	other notes:	part of MPI
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Research/CIS/index.html

CITP	Committee on IT Policy
	other notes:	An ad-hoc subcommittee of COG

CK	Crimson Key
	pronunciation:	Crimson Key
	Web address:	http://www.admissions.wpi.edu/CrimsonKey/

CLA	Campus License Agreement
	other notes:	specifically dealing with Microsoft software
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/CCC/Software/CLA/

CLICK	College Lifestyles Involving Consensual Kink
	pronunciation:	'click'
	Web address:	http://users.wpi.edu/~bilaga/CLICK/

CME	Center for Molecular Engineering
	other notes:	part of BEI
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Research/BEI/CME/

CMI	Cambridge-MIT Institute
	Web address:	http://www.cambridge-mit.org/cgi-bin/default.pl

CMS	Content Management System
	other notes:	WPI uses RedDot

CNB	Center for Neuroprosthetics and BioMEMS
	other notes:	part of BEI
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/academics/Research/BEI/Centers/neuroprosthetics.html

CND	Chicken Nugget Day
	other notes:	usually Thursdays for lunch during the academic year

CNTS	Center for Nuclear Technology and Science
	Web address:	http://cnts.wpi.edu/

COAP	Committee on Appointments and Promotions
	pronunciation:	'cope'
	other notes:	faculty committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Campus/Faculty/COAP/

COG	Committee on Governance
	pronunciation:	'cog'
	other notes:	faculty committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Campus/Faculty/COG/

COOP	Cooperative Education
	pronunciation:	'Co-Op'
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CDC/Students/Coop/

CORE	Campus Organization Recognition of Excellence
	other notes:	Seen as CORE Awards
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/offices/sao/srastudentorg.html

COS	Change of Status

COWC	Colleges of Worcester Consortium
	pronunciation:	The Consortium
	Web address:	http://www.cowc.org/

CP	Campus Police
	pronunciation:	'Cam-Po', 'Po-Po'
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Police/

CPE	Continuing and Professional Education
	pronunciation:	Continuing Ed.
	Web address:	http://www.ce.wpi.edu/

CPG	Capital and Planned Giving
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Giving/

CPS	Classroom Performance System
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/ATC/Collaboratory/HowTo/CPS/

CR	Continuous Recruitment
	other notes:	sororal term

CR3	Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/news/20090/cr3.html

CRC	Collegiate Religious Center
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/CRC/

CRECT	Center for Research in Electronic Commerce Technology
	Web address:	http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~crect/

CREDIA	Center for Research in Exploratory Data and Information Analysis
	pronunciation:	'cree-dee-uh'
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Research/CREDIA/

CREL	Catalyst and Reaction Engineering Laboratory

CRIS	Cryptography and Information Security
	pronunciation:	'chris', 'Crypt'
	Web address:	http://www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/Crypt

CRN	Course Registration Number

CS	Computer Science Department
	other notes:	academic department
	Web address:	http://www.cs.wpi.edu/

CSA	Chinese Student Association
	Web address:	http://users.wpi.edu/~dragon/

CSA	Club Sports Administration

CSAB	Computing Sciences Accreditation Board
	pronunciation:	'see-sab'
	other notes:	ABET Member, CSAB accredits the CS degree at WPI
	Web address:	http://www.csab.org/

CSC	Campus Safety Committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/Safety/people.html

CSGSO	Computer Science Graduate Student Organization
	Web address:	http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~csgso/

CSLI	Committee on Student Life Issues
	other notes:	part of SGA
	Web address:	http://users.wpi.edu/~sga/

CSPSP	Center for Sensory and Physiologic Signal Processing
	pronunciation:	C(SP)^2
	Web address:	http://www.ece.wpi.edu/Research/CSP2/

CSS	College Scholarship Service
	pronunciation:	CSS Profile
	other notes:	standard financial aid form
	Web address:	http://wpi.edu/Admin/FA/First/css.html

CSS	College Scholarship Service
	other notes:	The CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE is an application form the College Board that gives colleges a standard metric from which to measure financial need.
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Admin/FA/First/css.html

CSSA	Chinese Student and Scholars Association
	Web address:	http://users.wpi.edu/~cssa/

CSWS	Community Service Work Study

CTAF	Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom
	pronunciation:	'see-taf'
	other notes:	faculty committee
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Campus/Faculty/CTAF/

CTC	Convergent Technologies Center

CUTH	Center for UnTethered Healthcare
	other notes:	part of BEI
	Web address:	http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Research/BEI/CUTH/

CWINS	Center for Wireless Information Network Studies
	pronunciation:	'sea-wins'
	Web address:	http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/

CWIS	Campus Wide Information System

CWT	Can We Talk?
	other notes:	Performance by OLs traditionally on final night of NSO