Function Glossary
Function Code: (101) Instruction
Formally organized and/or separately budgeted activities that are part of the universities program to communicate educational content (instructional program), including general academic, vocational technical, special session, community education and preparatory/remedial activity. Excludes academic program administration, except where instructional activities constitute an important role of the administrator.
Function Code: (200) Research
Scientific, technical, and human humanistic investigation, including institutes and research centers as well as individual and or project research.
Function Code: (204) Clinical-Bench Research
Focus is on generalized outcomes as opposed to immediate patient care. 1-way, low frequency interactions, for example, the use of samples, surveys etc. with humans, specimens, or data.
Function Code: (205) Clinical-Translational Research
Is the use of “Specimens” from Clinical stored in Core Facilities to be used by Bench.
Function Code: (206) Clinical-Patient Research
Focus is on Patient Care and focuses on Drug, Device, System, etc. 2-way, frequent interaction with patient.
Function Code: (300) Public Service
Non-instructional services to individuals and groups external to the institution, including community service programs, Cooperative Extension services, and public broadcasting.
Function Code: (400) Academic Support
General planning and administrative support of the University’s primary missions, including provision of resources that assist the previous three primary missions such as educational materials (libraries museums), media and technology services, development of curricula and development of academic personnel skills.
Function Code: (600) Student Services
Includes admissions and records, student recruitment activities, student counseling, financial aid administration, health services, social and cultural activities (intramural athletics, student newspapers, and student organizations), and related student program administrative activities.
Function Code: (700) Institutional Support
Assistance and support for the administration and operation of the University or a given campus as a whole, as opposed to support of specific programs or units. This includes University or campus wide executive management (governing board, planning, programming, and legal functions), fiscal services (investment, financing, business, and audit functions), general administrative and logistical services (human resources, space management, procurement, parking, communications, stores, printing photographic, and safety functions), administrative computing services, and constituency relations (community alumni, governmental, and fundraising relations).
Function Code: (997) Scholarship/Fellowship
Sentence in the form of grants to students, resulting from selection by the institution or from an entitlement program. The category also includes training stipends, prizes, and awards.