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Faculty - Persons who are employed by the university for the purpose of conducting instruction, research, or public services as a principal activity (or activities) and are identified by the institution as such, Faculty may hold academic rank titles, and may be tenured, on a tenure track, or not on or ineligible for tenure track. Faculty may include the chancellor/president, provost, vice provosts, deans, directors, or the equivalent, as well as associate deans, assistant deans, and executive officers of academic departments if their principal activity is instruction combined with research and/or public service. Non-instructional staff such as librarians may also be considered faculty. 

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) - 

First-Time Student - 

First-Time, First-Year (freshman) Student - A student attending a higher education institution for the first time at the undergraduate level. This includes students who are enrolled in the fall term who attended college for the first time in the fall or prior summer term. This classification also includes students who entered with advanced standing (college credits earned before graduation from high school). 

First-Year Student - A student who has completed less than the equivalent of 1 full year of undergraduate work; that is, less than 30 semester hours (in a 120-hour degree program) or less than 900 contact hours. 

FTIC (First-Time-In-Charge) - An entering freshman or a first year student entering with less than 12 credit hours (undergraduate) or 9 credit hours (graduate) in a specific semester.  

Fiscal Year (FY) -  A twelve-month period running from September 1st through the following October 31stused for tracking financials and producing annual financial audits. FY is designated by the year-end and not in which it begins. 

FSA (Federal Student Aid) - Division of U.S. Department of Education that provides scholarships, grants, and other forms of aid to students seeking to attend college or those already enrolled.