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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Admission Test Group Code

Created: Mar 29, 2023 1:06 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Specifies the test group associated to the different posibilities of test scores like SAT Verbal, ACT Composite, Graduate Record Exam, etc.

Data Domain Academics
Community Student
Security Requirement Restricted

Admission Test Score Type

Created: Sep 25, 2014 1:50 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Score type of admission test - R is raw score, P is percentile, and Tis total score.

Data Domain Academics
Community Student
Security Requirement Public

Admission Type

Created: Nov 12, 2019 1:52 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Identifies if an offer of admission required conditions and if so, what type. Post-Matriculation Conditions indicates a student was admitted with a condition(s) that had to be satisfied in the first semester of the program. Pre-Matriculation Conditions indicates the student had an admission condition that had to be satisfied prior to matriculation. Standard/No Conditions indicates the student had no admission conditions.

Data Domain Academics
Community School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS)
Security Requirement Public

Admission Type

Created: Mar 18, 2015 3:15 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Describes the type of Admission such as Freshman, New Applicant, Readmit, External Transfer with the code.

Data Domain Academics
Community Student Application
Security Requirement Restricted

Admission Type Code

Created: Mar 18, 2015 3:15 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Code used for the type of Admission the student has.

Data Domain Academics
Community Student Application
Security Requirement Restricted

Admission Type Desc

Created: Jan 18, 2023 2:24 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Describes the type of Admission such as Freshman, New Applicant, Readmit, External Transfer.

Data Domain Academics
Community Student Application
Security Requirement Restricted

Admit Student Type

Created: Jul 16, 2020 10:50 am
Status: Accepted
Definition

The student's Student Type when they were admitted.

Data Domain Academics
Community Student
Security Requirement Public

% Admitted

Created: Jan 22, 2024 1:31 pm
Status: Under Review
Definition

Percent of students who admitted out of total students who were enrolled

Data Domain
Community Enrollment Management
Security Requirement Restricted

Admitted (Decision Status)

Created: Sep 18, 2015 8:43 am
Status: Accepted
Definition

A count of applicants who have been offered admission for the term/s displayed on the dashboard (Summer+Fall or Spring)

Data Domain Academics
Community Enrollment Management
Security Requirement Restricted

Admitted Ind (Y/Missing)

Created: Sep 25, 2014 3:47 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Y or N depending on whether the student has been admitted to GWU

Data Domain Academics
Community Student Recruitment
Security Requirement Restricted

Admitted Ind (Y/N)

Created: Sep 25, 2014 2:57 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Y or N if the student has a decision code corresponding to admittance (e.g. a "Y" if the latest decision code in ("01", "05", "07", "20", "25", "70","72","73", "80")

Data Domain Academics
Community Student Application
Security Requirement Restricted

Admitted Student

Created: Sep 07, 2021 12:05 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

A student has applied for admission and the Decision Status has been set to Admitted. 

Data Domain Academics
Community Enrollment Management
Security Requirement Restricted

Admit Term Code

Created: Aug 13, 2014 9:49 am
Status: Accepted
Definition

Determine student academic year grouping

Data Domain Finance
Community SAIG Operations
Security Requirement Restricted

Advisor

Created: Sep 29, 2020 3:48 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Faculty or Staff assigned by the school to a student to help the student navigate courses and provide academic guidance.

Data Domain Academics
Community Enrollment Management
Security Requirement Restricted

Advisor Approval Date

Created: Sep 19, 2019 3:04 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

The date a student's educational plan is approved by the advisor

Data Domain Academics
Community Course Management
Security Requirement Restricted

Affiliates

Created: Apr 06, 2015 1:58 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Affiliates are non-employee who have active records in GZAAFFL, a custom Banner form. This form, underlying tables and processes were created to track persons who are not paid by the university but need to have a role to gain access to certain systems. Affiliates must be renewed every 6, 12, or 24 months depending the affiliate type. 30 days prior the the expiration of the affiliated role an email is sent to the affiliate and to the sponsor reminding them to renew the affiliation.


Data Domain Master Data
Community Identity Management
Security Requirement Public

Affiliation Code

Created: Nov 20, 2023 1:23 pm
Status: Under Review
Definition

Affiliate code is a unique identifier for an affiliate, where an affiliate is an individual with a legitimate and verifiable affiliation with GW who is NOT a current student or a member of GW's faculty or staff. AUCs include visiting scholars not paid as employees, select contractors, and friends of the University.

Data Domain
Community Human Resources
Security Requirement Restricted

Affiliation Directory Ind

Created: Nov 09, 2023 3:28 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Indicator if a person starting the affiliate position allows to share their directory informaiton

Data Domain
Community Human Resources
Security Requirement Restricted

Affiliation End Date

Created: Nov 09, 2023 3:28 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Affiliate position end date

Data Domain
Community Human Resources
Security Requirement Restricted

Affiliation Gworld Ind

Created: Nov 09, 2023 3:28 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

This indicator defines whether the affiliate has been authorized possession of a GWorld card.

Data Domain
Community Human Resources
Security Requirement Restricted

Affiliation Start Date

Created: Nov 09, 2023 3:28 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Affiliate position start date

Data Domain
Community Human Resources
Security Requirement Restricted

Age

Created: Jul 10, 2015 2:59 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Gives the age of a person based on their birthdate and current date.

Data Domain Academics
Community Student
Security Requirement Restricted

Age at Matriculation

Created: Nov 12, 2019 1:52 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Standard apply term start date and birthdate are used to calculate student's age at matriculation.

Data Domain Academics
Community School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS)
Security Requirement Public

Age Group

Created: Oct 25, 2018 4:03 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

Distinct count of enrolled students between age group of every 10 years.

Data Domain Academics
Community Enrollment Management
Security Requirement Restricted

Agency Award Number

Created: Jan 08, 2018 5:22 pm
Status: Accepted
Definition

The award number that the sponsoring Agency uses to track the award. This award number is externally generated and differs from the GW-assigned award number.

Data Domain Research
Community Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR)
Security Requirement Restricted