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C4FCM | Center for Future Civic Media |
CAA | Computer-Aided Automation |
CAAFI | Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative |
CAAB | Campus Alcohol Advisory Board |
CAC | Campus Activities Complex |
CAC | Committee on Animal Care |
CADLab | Computer-Aided Design Lab |
CAES | Center for Advanced Educational Services (formerly Center for Advanced Engineering Study) |
CANES | Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems |
CAMIT | Chinese Alumni of MIT |
CAN-SPAM | Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act |
CAO | Controller's Accounting Office |
CAP | Committee on Academic Performance |
CAS | Cost Accounting Standards |
CASE | Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (based in Washington, DC) |
CASPAR | Cambridge and Somerville Program for Alcoholism Rehabilitation |
CAVS | Center for Advanced Visual Studies |
CBA | Center for Bits and Atoms |
CBE | Center for Biomedical Engineering |
CBI | Center for Biomedical Innovation |
CBIP | Center for Biological Information Processing |
CC@MIT | Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, a collaboration between MIT and the Underground Railway Theater |
CCCOB | College Career Centers of Boston |
CCI | Center for Collective Intelligence |
CCNEs | Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at MIT (MIT and Harvard together were named one by the National Cancer Institute) |
CCOP | Corporation Committee on the Presidency |
CCP | Communication, Coordination, and Planning (Group) |
CCR | Former acronym for the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (KI) based on the name Center for Cancer Research |
CCR | Committee on Corporate Relations |
CCREMS | Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management Science |
CCS | Center for Coordination Science |
CCS | Carbon Capture and Sequestion |
CCSC | Community Charter School of Cambridge |
CDB | Campus Dining Board |
CDC | Corporation Development Committee |
CDD | City Design and Development (program in the Department of Architecture) |
CDIO | Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate (interactive learning model in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics) |
CDO | Computation for Design and Optimization Program |
CDP | ell Decision Processes (MIT has a "Center of Excellence in CDP, with funding from NIH.) |
CDSA | Community Development and Substance Abuse, Office of |
C.E. | Civil Engineer (degree) |
CECI | Center for Educational Computing Initiatives |
CEE | Center for Excellence in Education, a Virginia-based organization |
CEE | (Department of) Civil and Environmental Engineering |
CEEPR | Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research |
CEESA | Civil & Environmental Engineering Student's Association |
CEEW | Cyprus Institute Program for Energy, Environment and Water Resources (program in LFEE) |
CEHS | Center for Environmental Health Sciences |
CEI | Center for Environmental Initiatives (See LFEE.) |
CENSAM | Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling |
Centrex | Central Exchange (main telephone system until October 1988) |
CEP | Committee on Educational Policy. This no longer exists. It was split into the Faculty Policy Committee or FPC, and the Committee on the Undergraduate Program, or CUP. |
CERN | European Organization for Nuclear Research |
CESF | Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals (in the Engineering Systems Division) |
CET | Council on Educational Technology |
CETI | China Education and Technology Initiative |
CEUE | Commission on Engineering Undergraduate Education |
CfA | (Harvard-Smithsonian) Center for Astrophysics |
CFA | Committee on Faculty-Administration |
C4FCM | MIT's Center For Future Civic Media |
CFP | Communications Futures Program |
CFP | Community Fellows Program (old). Now called Center for Reflective Community Practice. |
CFW | Council on Family and Work |
CG | Competency Group (former name of HR team in IS and IS&T) |
CGSP | Committee on Graduate School Programs (formerly Policy) |
C.H.E. | Chemical Engineer (degree) |
ChemE | (Department of) Chemical Engineering |
Chocolate City | Name used for several floors of New House |
CHP | Chemical Hygiene Plan |
CHP | Combined Heat and Power |
CIC | Computationally Intensive Computing (team) in Information Services and Technology |
CICS | Center for Intelligent Control Systems |
CIDMS | Center for Information-Driven Mechanical Systems |
CI-H | Communication Intensive subject in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (undergraduate requirement) |
CII | Communications Innovation Institute |
CIL | Committee on Industrial Liaison |
CI-M | Communication Intensive subject in the Major (undergraduate requirement) |
CIMIT | Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology |
CIPD | Center for Innovation in Product Development |
CIS | Center for International Studies |
CISR | Center for Information Systems Research |
CIST | Center for Infrastructure Science and Technology |
CITP | Clinical Investigator Training Program |
CivEE | (Department of) Civil and Environmental Engineering |
CJAC | Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-wide Affairs |
CLC | Cambridge Licensing Commission |
CLI | Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation |
CLM | Center for Learning and Memory |
CLSS | Computerized Literature Search Service (Libraries) |
CME | Cambridge-MIT Exchange (Program) |
CME-MSRI | Chicago Mercantile Exchange-Mathematical Sciences Research Initiative |
CMI | Cambridge-MIT Institute |
C-MORE | Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education |
CMP | Cooperative Mobility Program |
CMRAE | Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology |
CMS | Comparative Media Studies (graduate program, research program [Singapore, McArthur] and undergraduate major) |
CMSE | Center for Materials Science and Engineering |
COBE | Cosmic Background Explorer (NASA's) |
COBRA | Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act |
COC | Committee on Curricula |
COCA | Committee on Central America |
COD | Committee on Discipline |
COEUS | MIT's electronic proposal and award system. This is not an acronym; Coeus was the Greek god of intelligence. |
COFHE | Consortium on Financing Higher Education |
COG | Communications Operating Group |
COGR | Council on Governmental Relations |
Cog Shop | The Humanoid Robotics Project |
COHH | Center for Oceans and Human Health |
CoIL | Community Innovators Lab (formerly Center for Reflective Community Practice) |
COLAB | Cost of Living Advisory Board (formed by the Graduate Student Council) |
COM | Computer Output Microfilm |
Concourse | An experimental freshman program |
Coop | Harvard Cooperative Society (including the MIT branch known as Tech Coop) |
COPA | Committee on Outside Professional Activities |
COSO | Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (of the Treadway Commission). COSO is a voluntary private-sector organization whose purpose is improving the quality of financial reporting. |
COSYSMO | Constructive Systems Engineering Cost Model |
COUHES | Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects |
CP | Campus Police |
CP | Chi Phi |
CPA | Center for Policy Alternatives |
CPRL | Ceramics Processing Research Laboratory |
CPS | Communication Production Services |
CPSE | Council on Primary and Secondary Education |
CPSR | Contractor Purchasing System Review (conducted by the federal government) |
CPW | Campus Preview Weekend |
CR | Communication Requirement |
CRC | Clinical Research Center |
CRCP | Center for Reflective Community Practice (previous name of Community Innovators Lab) |
CRD | Committee on Race and Diversity |
CRE | Center for Real Estate |
CRI | Council on Resources for the Institute |
| CRON | Computer Resource Organization's Name (Computer Resources for Department of Architecture, Urban Planning, CRE) |
CRSP | Committee for the Review of Space Planning |
CRTMA | Charles River Transportation Management Association |
CSA | Committee on Student Affairs |
CSAB | Computer Science Accreditation Board |
CSAIL | Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory |
CSBi | Computational and Systems Biology, a Ph.D. program at MIT |
CSC | Chinese Students Club |
CSDL | Charles Stark Draper Laboratory |
C.S.E. | Computer Science Engineer (degree) |
CSF | Community Service Fund |
CSHE | Center for Studies in Higher Education |
CSI | Center for Sports Innovation (Now named Sports Innovation @ MIT) |
CSO | Conference Services Office |
CQI | Continuous Quality Improvement |
CSPI | Community Solar Power Initiative |
CSR | Center for Space Research; now called MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research (MKI) |
CSSA | Chinese Students and Scholars Association |
CSTF | Computer Space Task Force |
CSWG | Computing Support Working Group |
CTL | Center for Transportation and Logistics |
CTP | Center for Theoretical Physics |
CTPID | Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development |
CTS | Center for Transportation Studies (old name of the Center for Transportation and Logistics) |
CTSS | Compatible Time-Sharing System |
CU | (MIT Employees Federal) Credit Union |
CUAFA | Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid |
CUP | Central Utilities Plant |
CUP | Committee on the Undergraduate Program |
CUTC | Council of University Transportation Centers |
CVA | Committee on the Visual Arts (old) |
CWFPL | Center for Work, Family and Personal Life |
CWIS | Campus Wide Information Systems (now Web Communication Services) |
CWSP | College Work-Study Program |
Cyborg | Personnel Database in Human Resources replaced by SAP 9/2003 |