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Naming Policy for the ACCESS Forest

In order to keep machine and group names unique, ITS created the following policy for naming conventions. Each machine and/or group name is required to begin with a prefix designated for a specific Penn State organizational area, including campus locations, colleges, schools, and departments:

Campus Locations

1. oz = Penn State Abington
2. aa = Penn State Altoona
3. br = Penn State Beaver
4. bk = Penn State Berks
5. bd = Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
6. de = Penn State Delaware County
7. ds = Penn State DuBois
8. fe = Penn State Fayette
9. xs = Foreign Studies Program
10. hn = Penn State Hazleton
11. xp = Keller Conference Center at University Park
12. an = Penn State Lehigh Valley
13. mk = Penn State McKeesport
14. hy = College of Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
15. xm = Monroeville Continuing Education Center
16. ma = Penn State Mont Alto
17. nk = Penn State New Kensington
18. kp = Penn State Great Valley
19. cl = Penn State Harrisburg, The Capital College
20. sl = Penn State Schuylkill
21. sv = Penn State Shenango
22. xc = State College Continuing Education
23. up = Penn State University Park
24. wb = Penn State Wilkes-Barre
25. xw = Williamsport (Pennsylvania College of Technology)
26. wd = World Campus
27. ws = Penn State Worthington Scranton
28. yk = Penn State York

College Prefixes

1. ag = College of Agricultural Sciences
2. caa = College of Arts and Architecture
3. coc = College of Communications
4. ems = College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
5. ced = College of Education
6. eng = College of Engineering
7. hhd = College of Health and Human Development
8. cla = College of Liberal Arts
9. ecs = Eberly College of Sciences
10. shc = The Schreyer Honors College
11. scb = Smeal College of Business

School Prefixes

1. dn = Dickinson School of Law
2. ist = School of Information Sciences and Technology
3. tgs = The Graduate School

Office/Department Prefixes

1. aers = Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
2. ait = Applied Information Technology
3. abs = Auxiliary and Business Service
4. cc = Commonwealth Campuses
5. che = Department of Chemistry (of the Eberly College of Science)
6. eeq = Office of Educational Equity
7. fbt = Finance and Business/Treasurer
8. hort = Department of Horticulture
9. ohr = Office of Human Resources
10. mcl = Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes
11. phy = Department of Physics (of the Eberly College of Science)
12. sa = The Division Student Affairs
13. tns = Telecommunications & Networking Services
14. ts = Training Services
15. uga = Undergraduate Admissions
16. uge = Undergraduate Education & International Programs