University of Regina Policy
Glossary of Terms and Definitions
Or, look for the acronym in the list below.
- CACUSS
- CAH
- CANARIE
- CATS
- CAUBO
- CAURA
- CAUT
- CBIE
- CCAC
- CCAM
- CCE
- CCPPS
- CCSA
- CCTV
- CCUAS
- CDC
- CEC
- CERN
- CFI
- CGCM
- CGI
- CGPSS
- CHEA
- CHERD
- CIC
- CICA
- CIDA
- CIET
- CIHI
- CIHR
- CIPI
- CKHS
- COLAM
- COWCUBS
- COWCUP
- COWFLOP
- CPI
- CPRC
- CPRC
- CRA
- CRC
- CRFM
- CSC
- CSEE
- CSIR
- CTL
- CUPE 1975
- CUPE 2419
- CURA
- CURIE
- CUSC
- CVA
- CoT
- HRI
- HSW (relating to Health and Safety and Violence Prevention)
- HSMS (relating to Health and Safety)
- ICRR
- IEESC
- IOHE
- IP
- IPAC-CO2
- IPC
- IPHRC
- IRAP
- IRIS
- IRS (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- IS
- ISC
- ISM
- IT
- ITC
- IUC
- IWS (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- SAC
- SAC (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- SEC
- SHRC
- SHRF
- SIC
- SIDRU
- SJI
- SLGA
- SMS
- SOFA
- SPHERU
- SPRU
- SRC
- SRU
- SSA
- STEP
- SUFM
- SUG
Or, look for the term in the list below.
- Absent or Absence (relating to Delegation of Authority, Senior Executive)
- Academic Administrator
- Academic Home
- Academic Integrity
- Academic Policy
- Academic Rank (relating to Awarding the Title Emeritus)
- Academic Staff Member
- Access (relating to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy)
- Accessible
- Accommodation (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Accommodation Plan (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Account Administrator
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Accused (relating to Safe Disclosure)
- Adjudication Board (relating to Sexual Violence Misconduct)
- Administrative Unit (relating to Administrative Unit Reviews)
- Administrator
- Administrator (relating to Internal Audit)
- Agreement
- Allegation (relating to Safe Disclosure)
- Allegation (relating to Research-Scholarly Misconduct)
- Alternate Servers (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- Alternative Resolution
- Ancillary Service
- Animals
- Anonymous (relating to Safe Disclosure)
- Anonymous Information
- Application Service Provider (ASP)
- Appointing Authority
- Approval Authority
- Approval Registry (relating to Approval Authorities and Execution of Documents)
- Approve (relating to Approval Authorities and Execution of Documents)
- Approved Position (relating to Personal Computer Allocations, Evergreen Program)
- Approving Authority (relating to Approval Authorities and Execution of Documents)
- Assault
- Asset Administrator
- Assets (relating to Naming Buildings, Facilities, and Academic Units)
- Assistive Animal
- Athletic Award (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Authentication
- Authentication Mechanism
- Authorized Representative (relating to Application Service Providers)
- Authorized Service Provider (relating to Sale and Service of Alcohol on Campus)
- Authorized Users (relating to Use of Computer and Network Systems)
- Available space (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Award (relating to Gift Giving and Staff Functions)
- Award (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Banner External Invoicing (relating to External Customer Credit Invoicing and Collection)
- Base Budgeted Positions (relating to Position Control)
- Best Interests of the University (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment)
- Best Value (relating to Purchasing Goods and Services)
- Biohazard
- Biological Substance
- Biosafety
- Biosafety Officer
- Bona Fide Occupational Requirements (BFOR)
- Bonafide Organization (relating to Sale and Service of Alcohol on Campus)
- Budget Adjustment (relating to Budget Transfers, Revisions and Adjustments)
- Budget Managers (relating to Budget Process)
- Budget Revision (relating to Budget Transfers, Revisions and Adjustments)
- Budget Transfer (relating to Budget Transfers, Revisions and Adjustments)
- Building
- Bursary (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Business (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment)
- Business Meeting
- Canada Research Chair (CRC)
- Candidate (relating to Out-of-Scope Senior Appointments)
- Cannabis
- Capital Assets (relating to Management of Assets)
- Carryforward
- Cash (relating to Gift Giving and Staff Functions)
- Casual Employee
- Catering (relating to Food Services)
- Certified Copy (relating to Legal Name and Name Change)
- Chairholder
- Charitable Organization (relating to Donating to or Sponsoring External Groups and Causes)
- Chemical Substance
- Classroom Space
- Closely Associated Person (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment)
- Code (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Colleague (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment)
- Commitment (relating to Approval Authorities and Execution of Documents)
- Competent
- Competitive Bid Process (relating to Purchasing Goods and Services)
- Complainant (relating to Research-Scholarly Misconduct)
- Complainant (relating to Sexual Violence Misconduct)
- Computer Related Assets (relating to Management of Assets)
- Computer System (relating to Accountable Professional Expense Accounts)
- Concept
- Confidentiality (relating to Code of Conduct)
- Conflict of Commitment (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment)
- Conflict of Interest (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment and Research-Scholarly Misconduct)
- Consent
- Constituency
- Construction
- Consulting
- Content (relating to Social Media)
- Contract
- Contract for Service
- Contract of Service (Employment)
- Controlled Items
- Controlled Product
- Copyright
- Copyright Laws
- Copyrighted Materials
- Copyright Owner
- Core/Required Courses
- Counterparty (relating to Approval Authorities and Execution of Documents)
- Creator (regarding Intellectual Property)
- Custodial Stakeholders (relating to Banner System Security)
- Custodian
- Custodian (relating to Petty Cash)
- Data (relating to Surveys)
- Data (relating to Limitation of Liability for Non University Owned Data)
- Data (relating to Use of Computer and Network Systems)
- Data Consumer (relating to Information Technology Initiatives)
- Data Custodian
- Data Handling Standards
- Data Steward
- Data Trustee
- Daytime Hours
- Definitive Source
- Department (relating to Approval Authorities and Execution of Documents)
- Designated Groups
- Difference between a T4 and T4A
- Digital assets
- Direct Costs (relating to Research Cost Recovery)
- Direct-Use Computer Asset
- Disability (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Disability (relating to Service and Support Animals)
- Disclose/Disclosure (relating to Sexual Violence Misconduct)
- Discrimination (relating to Respectful University)
- Distinguished University Professor
- Diversity
- Donated Assets (relating to Management of Assets)
- Donation (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- Donation (relating to Donating to or Sponsoring External Groups and Causes)
- Due Diligence
- Early Intervention Team
- Eligible Academic and Administrative Employees
- Emergency
- Emergency Management
- Emergency Operations Center Group (EOC)
- Emergency Response Team
- Emeritus/Emerita
- Employee
- Employment (relating to Policy Categories)
- Endowed Research Chair
- Endowment (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- Enterprise Application
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- Entrance Award (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Evening Hours
- Evergreen Assets
- Exemption (relating to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy)
- External Appointment (relating to Appointing Employees to External Boards and Committees)
- Fabrication
- Fact
- Faculty
- Faculty and Staff
- Faculty Research Chair
- Falsification
- Family Status (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- FAST Accounts Receivable
- Fellowship (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Fieldwork
- Filming/photographing
- Financial Interest (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment)
- Forced Meeting Day and Time
- Former Name (relating to Legal Name and Name Change)
- Fraud
- Functional use (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Fund (relating to Benefit Charges and Budget Process)
- Fund Manager
- General Purpose Computer Laboratory (relating to Personal Computer Allocations, Evergreen Program)
- Guest Lecturer/Speaker
- Gift (relating to Gift Giving and Staff Functions)
- Gift (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- Gift Annuity (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- Gift in kind (relating to Donating to or Sponsoring External Groups and Causes)
- Good Faith Allegation
- Good Faith Allegation (relating to Safe Disclosure)
- Governance (relating to Policy Categories)
- Grant (relating to Budgetary Limits on Spending Research Funds)
- Harassment (relating to Respectful University)
- Hazardous
- Hazardous Material
- Hazardous Waste
- Hazards
- Head (relating to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy)
- Health Care Practitioner (relating to Workplace Accommodation for Employees with Medical Disabilities)
- Hierarchy of Accommodations (relating to Workplace Accommodation for Employees with Medical Disabilities)
- High Risk Activities
- Honorarium (relating to Board Member Honorarium and Expenses)
- Honorarium (relating to Petty Cash)
- Host at Destination
- Human Data
- Human Participants or Participants
- Human Resources
- Identifiable Information
- Imprest fund (relating to Petty Cash)
- Inability to Act (relating to Delegation of Authority, Senior Executive)
- Inappropriate Purchases
- Inappropriate Purchases (relating to Purchasing Goods and Services)
- Incident (relating to Health and Safety)
- Incident Command System
- Inclusion
- Indigenous Engagement
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Indirect Cost Recovery Rate (relating to Research Cost Recovery)
- Indirect Costs (relating to Reseach Cost Recovery)
- Indirect Costs (relating to Research and Service Contracts)
- Industrial Research Chair
- Information Resources (relating to Use of Computer and Network Systems)
- Information Risk Classification Framework
- Information Technology Resources
- Infrastructure
- Infringement
- Institutional Work
- Instrument (relating to University Name, Corporate and Academic Seals)
- Insured Person
- Integrated Web Services (IWS) (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Audit
- Internal Auditor
- Internal Controls
- Intersectionality
- Investigative Committee
- Investigator (relating to Safe Disclosure)
- Ionizing Radiation and Radioactive Material
- Label
- Leased space (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Legal Entity
- Legal Name (relating to Legal Name and Name Change)
- Level 1 Emergency
- Level 2 Emergency
- License Agreement
- Licensed Practitioner (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Line Management
- Local Authority
- Location (relating to Management of Assets)
- Low Risk Activities
- Major Capital Project (relating to Fund Monitoring)
- Material Safety Data Sheet
- Member of Immediate Family
- Member of the University Community
- Member of the University Community (relating to Research-Scholarly Misconduct)
- Metadata
- Minimum Lease Payments
- Minor (relating to Sale and Service of Alcohol on Campus)
- Near-cash (relating to Gift Giving and Staff Functions)
- Near miss (relating to Health and Safety)
- New space (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Non-Authorized Account
- Non-Ionizing Radiation
- Non-Standard Tuition
- Non University Owned Data
- Non University Record
- Not-for-Profit Organization (relating to Donating to or Sponsoring External Groups and Causes)
- Notifiable Chemical and Biological Substance
- Office of Record
- Official Account
- Official University websites (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- Operational Initiatives (relating to Information Technology Initiatives)
- Operations (relating to Policy Categories)
- Organization (relating to Benefit Charges)
- Orphan (or Dormant) Account
- Outdoor Events
- Out-of-Scope
- Overspent (or deficit) (relating to Budgetary Limits on Spending Research Funds)
- Periodic Counts (relating to Management of Assets)
- Personal Harassment (relating to Respectful University)
- Personal Information (relating to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy)
- Personal Interest (relating to Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment)
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Personal Purchases
- Petty Cash
- Pipe Carrier (relating to Smudging/Pipe Ceremonies)
- Pipe Ceremony (relating to Smudging/Pipe Ceremonies)
- Plagiarism (relating to Code of Conduct)
- Plagiarism (relating to Research-Scholarly Misconduct)
- Policy
- Policy Owner
- Political Organization (relating to Donating to or Sponsoring External Groups and Causes)
- Potluck Function (relating to Food Services)
- Primary Server (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- Principal Investigator (relating to Budgetary Limits on Spending Research Funds)
- Principal Investigator (relating to Care and Use of Animals and Research-Scholarly Misconduct)
- Print Equipment (relating to Print Equipment and Related Software)
- Print Related Services (relating to Obtaining Printing Services)
- Privacy (relating to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy)
- Prize (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Procedure
- Process
- Prohibited Device
- Prohibited Relationship
- Project Director
- Promotional Item (relating to Donating to or Sponsoring External Groups and Causes)
- Proponent
- Prospect (relating to Prospect Clearance)
- Purchase Order
- Purchasing Authority
- Purchasing Card Administrator
- Purchasing Decision
- Purchasing or Commitment Authority
- Radiation
- Radioisotope Laboratories
- Rape Culture
- Record (relating to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy)
- Regulated Biological Waste
- Related Software (relating to Print Equipment and Related Software)
- Relevant Authority
- Religion (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Religious Authority (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Remote
- Renovation
- Report (relating to Sexual Violence Misconduct)
- Reporter (related to Safe Disclosure)
- Research (relating to Policy Categories)
- Research (relating to Ethics - Research with Humans)
- Research (relating to Research-Scholarly Misconduct)
- Research Chair
- Research Contract (relating to Budgetary Limits on Spending Research Funds)
- Researcher (relating to Research Chairs)
- Research Funding Agreement (relating to Research Cost Recovery)
- Research Institute or Centre
- Research Record
- Reserve Space (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Residential ties (relating to Moving Expenses)
- Residual Interest Gift (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- Respondent (relating to Research Scholarly Misconduct)
- Repondent (relating to Sexual Violence Misconduct)
- Restricted Gift (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- Retaliation (relating to Safe Disclosure)
- Review Schedule
- Reward or Incentive (relating to Gift Giving and Staff Functions)
- Rights of Ownership (relating to Use of Copyright Materials)
- Risk
- Risk Register
- Risk Tolerance
- Risk Treatment
- Schedule I Bank (relating to Investments)
- Schedule II Bank (relating to Investments)
- Scholarship (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Search Advisory Committee Chair (relating to Out-of-Scope Academic Administrative Appointments)
- Secondary University Websites (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- Securities (relating to University Name, Corporate and Academic Seals)
- Senior Administrators (relating to Installation and Use of Video Surveillance Systems; and Legal Name and Name Change)
- Senior Administrators (relating to Compensation for Out-of-Scope Employees)
- Senior Administrator (relating to Moving Expenses)
- Senior Executive
- Senior Officer
- Senior University Officer (relating to Position Control)
- Service Animal
- Service Provider
- Sexual Assault
- Sexual Harassment
- Sexual Violence Misconduct
- Signed Certificate (relating to Banner System Security)
- Single or Sole Source
- Site Owner (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- Smart Classroom
- Smoking
- Smudge (relating to Smudging/Pipe Ceremonies)
- Smudging (relating to Smudging/Pipe Ceremonies)
- Space Allocation (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Space Standards (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Special Occasion Permit (relating to Sale and Service of Alcohol on Campus)
- Special Use Permit (relating to Sale and Service of Alcohol on Campus)
- Special Waste
- Split Purchases
- Sponsor (relating to Budgetary Limits on Spending Research Funds)
- Sponsor (relating to Research Chairs)
- Sponsored Research Chair
- Sponsorship (relating to Prospect Clearance)
- Sport Leader
- Staff
- Stakeholders
- Stalking
- Standard Meeting Pattern
- Standard Tuition
- Status quo (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Status quo maintenance (relating to Space Management and Allocation)
- Stewardship
- Strategic Initiatives (relating to Information Technology Initiatives)
- Student
- Student Conference Travel Award (relating to Establishing Student Awards)
- Supervising Authority (relating to Out-of-Scope Senior Appointments)
- Supervisor (relating to Respectful University)
- Supervisor (relating to Health and Safety)
- Supervisor (relating to Purchasing Cards)
- Supervisor (relating to Conflict of Interest)
- Supplier
- Support Animal
- Survey
- Survivor
- Systemic Discrimination (relating to Respectful University)
- Systems (relating to Use of Computer and Network Systems)
- Tactical Initiatives (relating to Information Technology Initiatives)
- Team Leaders
- Technology-facilitated Sexual Violence or Harassment
- Technology Risk Assessment (TRA)
- Tender
- Term appointment
- Term Positions (relating to Position Control)
- Termination of Employment (relating to Position Control)
- Third Parties (relating to Respectful University and Violence Prevention)
- Third Party (relating to Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy)
- Third Party (relating to Purchasing Goods and Services)
- Threat (relating to Violence Prevention)
- Threats
- Tier 1 Accommodation
- Tier 2 Arrangement
- Tobacco Products
- Train
- Traditional Academic Work
- Traditional Indigenous Name
- Traditional Knowledge Keepers
- Transaction Documents
- Transaction Documents (relating to Purchasing Cards)
- Transitional Workplace Accommodation Plan
- Transitory Record
- Traveller (relating to Travel)
- Travelling Companion
- Tri-Agency
- Tuition
- Undue Hardship (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Unethical Conduct (relating to Code of Conduct)
- Union (relating to Workplace Accommodation)
- Unit
- Unit-Managed Web Sites
- University
- University Administered Funds (relating to Food Services)
- University Emergency Operations Centre (UEOC)
- University Equipment (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- University Executive Team (UET)
- University Leadership Team (ULT)
- University Matter
- University Members
- University Officer (relating to Approval Authorities and Execution of Documents)
- University Print Equipment
- University Record
- University Records and Information Management Committee (URIMC)
- University Specialized Resources
- University Unit (relating to RIM)
- University Web Servers (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- University's Web Infrastructure (relating to Website Naming, Hosting, Risks and Security)
- University Web Governance Committee (UWGC)
- Unrestricted Gift (relating to University Gift Acceptance)
- Unusually Dangerous (relating to Health and Safety)
- UR Early
- User Rights