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INSTRUCTION AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

FIRM ORDER

In acquisitions, an order for a specific title placed with a vendor.

FOLIO

Designation of materials larger than oversize.

FRENCH COLLECTIONS

A collection of materials in French including the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire Studies on French Poet Charles Baudelaire, the Pia Collection on French literary critic Pascal Pia, and the Sigaux Collection on Gilbert Sigaux, French theater critic.

FTE

Full-time equivalent based on a 40 hour week.

FTP

File Transfer Protocol; a standard for moving files from one computer to another. A user on one host can access and transfer files to and from another host. FTP is also the name of the program the user invokes to execute the protocol.

FUGITIVES

A group of sixteen poets and critics who met in Nashville in the early 1920's and published "The Fugitive" from 1922 - 1925. Most members were faculty or students at Vanderbilt, including America's first Poet Laureate, Robert Penn Warren.

FULL-TIME POSITION

For benefits purposes, any position in the university that is 30 or more hours per week.

FWSP

Federal Work Study Program; a program through which the federal government pays a portion of the student employees' salaries.

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