ODHE Acronyms -
The alphabet soup
The alphabet soup
This four-letter acronym stands for the Ohio College Opportunity Grant, the state's main need-based financial aid program.
What is OCOG?
This university is home to the Raiders and is named after the famous aviation brothers from Dayton.
What is Wright State University?
This grant, recently featured on the ODHE website, provides up to $3,000 for students re-enrolling to finish a degree they started years ago.
What is the Second Chance Grant?
The website where students go to find all Ohio transfer information.
What is TransferCredit.Ohio.gov?
This scholarship requires students to do a co-op or internship.
What is Choose Ohio First?
This program, abbreviated as CCP, allows 7th-12th graders to earn college and high school credit simultaneously for free.
What is College Credit Plus?
Known as the Zips, this university features "Zippy" the kangaroo as its mascot.
What is the University of Akron?
This scholarship is awarded to the top graduating senior from every eligible high school in Ohio to incentivize them to stay in-state.
What is the Governor’s Merit Scholarship?
CEMS stands for this.
What is the Course Equivalency Management System?
This STEM-focused annual convention allows student K-12 to develop, prototype, and showcase their work.
What is the Ohio Invention Convention?
This OATN term stands for Career-Technical Assurance Guides, ensuring career-center clock hours transfer to college credit.
What are CTAGs?
This university's athletic teams are called the Falcons, and it is located just south of Toledo.
What is Bowling Green State University?
Ohio schools with this designation are recognized for being exceptionally supportive of military-connected students.
What is a Collegiate Purple Star?
This tool allows students to see how their specific credits move between any two Ohio public schools.
What is the Transfer Evaluation System (or Course Applicability System)?
This program provides free books to Ohio children from birth to age 5.
What is Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio?
This term refers to Industry-Recognized Credentials, which ODHE helps align with college degrees for workforce readiness.
What are IRCs?
This shuttered community college in the Mahoning Valley is named after the first President of the United States.
What is Eastern Gateway Community College?
This grant helps students with a history in foster care succeed in postsecondary education.
What is the Ohio Reach Postsecondary Designation?
The specific name of the faculty-led groups that approve TAGs and OT36 courses.
What are Faculty Review Panels?
The "Science of" this subject is a major ODHE initiative to improve student potential.
What is Reading?
The acronym for the Ohio Admission Counseling Association, a key partner for ODHE in student outreach.
What is OACAC (Ohio Association for College Admissions Counseling)?
This university's students and fans are famously known as the Golden Flashes.
What is Kent State University?
This specific funding pool, often discussed in Chancellor Mike Duffey's budget visits, supports collaborative workforce development projects across multiple campuses.
What is the Workforce Development Grant?
The technical term for "Credit for Prior Learning" used in Ohio's military and apprenticeship initiatives.
What is PLA (Prior Learning Assessment)?
This network, abbreviated as OARnet, provides the ultra-high-speed fiber optic backbone for Ohio's colleges.
What is the Ohio Academic Resources Network?