{"id":8062,"date":"2019-01-10T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/?page_id=8062"},"modified":"2019-09-09T09:45:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:45:41","slug":"abbreviations-and-acronyms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/program-volunteer-resources\/county-executive-committee\/abbreviations-and-acronyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbreviations and Acronyms* Used by Extension**"},"content":{"rendered":"

ADA<\/strong> \u2013 Americans with Disabilities Act<\/p>\n

AFUM<\/strong> \u2013 Associated Faculties of the University of Maine System<\/p>\n

ACSUM<\/strong> \u2013 Associated COLT Staff of the University of Maine System<\/p>\n

APHIS<\/strong> \u2013 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service<\/p>\n

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CACE<\/strong> \u2013 Classified Advancement Committee for Extension<\/p>\n

CARET<\/strong> \u2013 Committee for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching<\/p>\n

CEAC<\/strong> \u2013 Classified Employees Advisory Council<\/p>\n

CEA <\/strong>\u2013 Community Education Associate<\/strong><\/p>\n

CEA <\/strong>\u2013 County Extension Association<\/strong><\/p>\n

CEC<\/strong> \u2013 County Executive Committee<\/p>\n

CYFAR<\/strong> \u2013 Children, Youth and Families At Risk<\/p>\n

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ECOP<\/strong> \u2013 Extension Committee on Organization and Policy<\/p>\n

EDEN<\/strong> \u2013 Extension Disaster Education Network<\/p>\n

EEO<\/strong> \u2013 Equal Employment Opportunity<\/p>\n

EFNEP<\/strong> \u2013 Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program<\/p>\n

ELT<\/strong> \u2013 Extension Leadership Team<\/p>\n

EPC<\/strong> \u2013 Extension Professionals Committee<\/p>\n

EPPRC<\/strong> \u2013 Extension Professionals Peer Review Committee<\/p>\n

EssC<\/strong> \u2013 Extension Support Staff Committee<\/p>\n

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FSD<\/strong> \u2013 Flexible Staff Development<\/p>\n

FSIS<\/strong> \u2013 Food Safety and Information Service<\/p>\n

FTE<\/strong> \u2013 Full Time Equivalent<\/p>\n

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HACCP<\/strong> \u2013 Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point<\/p>\n

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IDO<\/strong> \u2013 Interdepartmental Order<\/p>\n

IPM<\/strong> \u2013 Integrated Pest Management<\/p>\n

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LINE<\/strong> \u2013 Limited Income Nutrition Education<\/p>\n

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MAC<\/strong> \u2013 Maine Ag. Center<\/p>\n

MEA<\/strong> \u2013 Maine Extension Association<\/p>\n

MEHC<\/strong> \u2013 Maine Extension Homemakers Council<\/p>\n

MHH<\/strong> \u2013 Maine Harvest for Hunger<\/p>\n

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NARS<\/strong> \u2013 Narrative Accountability Reporting System<\/p>\n

NASULGC<\/strong> \u2013 National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges<\/p>\n

NIFA<\/strong> \u2013 National Institute of Food and Agriculture<\/p>\n

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PA<\/strong> \u2013 Program Administrator<\/p>\n

PAC<\/strong> \u2013 Policy Advisory Committee<\/p>\n

PAF<\/strong> \u2013 Personnel Action Form<\/p>\n

PC<\/strong> \u2013 Peer Committee<\/p>\n

PEAC<\/strong> \u2013 Professional Employees Advisory Council<\/p>\n

PLT<\/strong> \u2013 Program Leadership Team<\/p>\n

PMO<\/strong> \u2013 Pest Management Office<\/p>\n

PO<\/strong> \u2013 Purchase Order<\/p>\n

POW<\/strong> \u2013 Plan of Work<\/p>\n

PRC<\/strong> \u2013 Peer Review Committee<\/p>\n

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UMPSA<\/strong> \u2013 University of Maine Professional Staff Association<\/p>\n

UMS<\/strong> \u2013 University of Maine System<\/p>\n

USDA<\/strong> \u2013 United States Department of Agriculture<\/p>\n

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* Abbreviation refers to any shortened or contracted\u00a0form of a word or phrase. Abbreviations may consist of initialisms, acronyms, contractions as well as some other shortened word forms.\u00a0An acronym is a type of abbreviation where a new word is formed from the first letters of a series of words. <\/strong>So, NASA and COBRA are acronyms whereas HTTP and IBM are not.\u00a0 All acronyms are abbreviations, but not every abbreviation is an acronym. This is the main difference<\/strong> between acronym and abbreviation.<\/p>\n

** Revised Jan. 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADA \u2013 Americans with Disabilities Act AFUM \u2013 Associated Faculties of the University of Maine System ACSUM \u2013 Associated COLT Staff of the University of Maine System APHIS \u2013 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service CACE \u2013 Classified Advancement Committee for Extension CARET \u2013 Committee for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching CEAC \u2013 Classified Employees […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":8304,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8062","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10705,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8062\/revisions\/10705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/plugged-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}