Business Glossary
Welcome to the Data Governance Business Glossary.
The business glossary enables you to find business term definitions and associated metadata.
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Contract Type Code
Created:
Dec 15, 2014 10:25 am
Status:
Accepted
Uses the Contract Group Code to determine Contract Type Code
Data Domain
Academics
Community
Student Accounts
Security Requirement
Restricted
Contract Year
Created:
Dec 15, 2014 10:25 am
Status:
Accepted
Uses a combination of Contract type code and range of sprident id to determine the Contract Year
Data Domain
Academics
Community
Student Accounts
Security Requirement
Restricted
Contract ZIP Code
Created:
Dec 15, 2014 10:25 am
Status:
Accepted
Address Zip Code of the Contract information
Data Domain
Academics
Community
Student Accounts
Security Requirement
Restricted
Conversion Rate
Created:
Apr 08, 2016 1:15 pm
Status:
Accepted
It is the percentage of conversions to clicks.
Data Domain
Services
Community
External Relations
Security Requirement
Conversions
Created:
Apr 08, 2016 1:15 pm
Status:
Accepted
A conversion happens when someone clicks an ad and then takes an action that you’ve defined as valuable to your business, such as filling out a (RFI) request for information form.
Data Domain
Services
Community
External Relations
Security Requirement
Core Academic Year
Created:
Oct 28, 2014 9:35 am
Status:
Candidate
Core academic years include only fall, winter, and spring terms.
Data Domain
Academics
Community
Office of the Registrar
Security Requirement
Public
Corpus Beginning Balance
Created:
Oct 14, 2025 9:45 am
Status:
Under Review
The total principal amount of money in an investment or fund, excluding any interest or returns generated at the beginning of the period.
Data Domain
Community
General Ledger
Security Requirement
Restricted
Corpus Ending Balance
Created:
Oct 14, 2025 9:45 am
Status:
Under Review
The total principal amount of money in an investment or fund, excluding any interest or returns generated at the end of the period.
Data Domain
Community
General Ledger
Security Requirement
Restricted
Correct Hours Per Day
Created:
Mar 07, 2023 4:13 pm
Status:
Accepted
Correct Hours Per Day is a calculated field that will determine if the current hours per day is accurate
Data Domain
Human Resources
Community
Payroll
Security Requirement
Restricted
Correct Hours Per Pay
Created:
Mar 07, 2023 4:13 pm
Status:
Accepted
Correct Hours Per Pay is a calculated field that will determine if the current hours per pay is accurate
Data Domain
Finance
Community
Payroll
Security Requirement
Restricted
Correction Digit
Created:
Oct 23, 2014 10:06 am
Status:
Accepted
Correction digit associated with the address for bar code mailing.
Data Domain
Academics
Community
Student
Security Requirement
Public
Cost Distributed Indicator
Created:
Jul 06, 2023 1:11 pm
Status:
Accepted
This field indicates if the expediture distributed
Data Domain
Community
Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR)
Security Requirement
Restricted
Cost Per Click
Created:
Apr 08, 2016 1:15 pm
Status:
Accepted
It is the cost paid per each click on an ad
Data Domain
Services
Community
External Relations
Security Requirement
Cost Per Conversion
Created:
Apr 08, 2016 1:15 pm
Status:
Accepted
Cost Per Conversions is the total cost of generating traffic divided by the total number of conversions. Note that the cost includes that of all traffic during which conversions were measured, including traffic during that time that didn't lead to a conversion
Data Domain
Services
Community
External Relations
Security Requirement
Cost (Proposed Increase - Current Pay, adjusted by FTE and annual impact)
Created:
Dec 14, 2023 4:49 pm
Status:
Accepted
Cost (Proposed Increase - Current Pay, adjusted by FTE and annual impact) is a text field which indicates how to cacluate the cost
Data Domain
Community
Human Resources
Security Requirement
Restricted
Cost Share BI
Created:
Sep 10, 2020 2:23 pm
Status:
Accepted
This is the Banner index number associated with the Cost Sharing Awards.
Data Domain
Research
Community
Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR)
Security Requirement
Restricted
Cost Type
Created:
Dec 17, 2014 1:24 pm
Status:
Accepted
Shows if this is a indirect or direct cost.
Data Domain
Research
Community
Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR)
Security Requirement
Restricted
Count
Created:
Jun 09, 2023 2:50 pm
Status:
Accepted
Unique instances of the event
Data Domain
Community
Career Services
Security Requirement
Restricted
Count of Delinquencies
Created:
Jul 11, 2016 3:16 pm
Status:
Accepted
The Count of Deliquencies creates a non-null value for each employee that has a delinquent I-9. These values are then aggregated to calculate the Delinquency Percentage.
Data Domain
Human Resources
Community
Human Resources
Security Requirement
Restricted
Count of Employee Paid Primary
Created:
Jan 15, 2025 1:09 pm
Status:
Accepted
Count of Employees Paid Primary is the count of employees who were paid under their primary job
Data Domain
Community
Payroll
Security Requirement
Restricted
Count of Primary Location
Created:
Oct 01, 2025 8:24 am
Status:
Accepted
Count of internships reported at a given location in the Graduating Senior Survey
Data Domain
Community
Office of Survey Research and Analysis
Security Requirement
Public
Country
Created:
Sep 12, 2025 4:54 pm
Status:
Candidate
Cleans the Address Nation Desc field by filling in missing values and standardizing US nation values
Data Domain
Community
Milken Institute School of Public Health (GWSPH)
Security Requirement
Restricted
Country
Created:
Jul 21, 2015 4:04 pm
Status:
Accepted
For HEA Survey - if Foreign then country must be indicated (FOREIGN_SOURCE_TYPE). Country to be listed is that from which the foreign gift or contract originated, chosen from a list of values.
Data Domain
Finance
Community
General Ledger
Security Requirement
Restricted
Country of Citizenship
Created:
Jun 25, 2025 2:16 pm
Status:
Candidate
This field identifies country of citizenship
Data Domain
Community
GW Law
Security Requirement
Restricted
Country of Residency
Created:
Jul 13, 2015 9:54 am
Status:
Accepted
Country where student matched for residency
Data Domain
Academics
Community
School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS)
Security Requirement
Restricted