These are terms as defined within the Planning application:

• Admin Department: The tenure-granting departmental home for a faculty member
• Appointments: All the roles a faculty member has at U-M, regardless of department, school, or FTE (can include 0.0 FTE "dry" appointments)
• Clinical Session: A unit of work for clinical faculty, defined as 4-hours (1/2 day) within a given week
• Division: The sub-departments of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Surgery
• Faculty Member: A current U-M faculty member who has an active appointment at the Medical School
• FTE: Full-time equivalent; this is per appointment. Each faculty member's appointment FTEs sum to a faculty member's overall FTE
• Headcount: The whole-number count of faculty members in a department/division
• Location: Currently, a U-M outpatient clinical site (may be expanded to inpatient locations in the future)
• Iteration: A multi-month planning timeframe; finished plans are due at the end of this timeframe
• Main Appointing Department; The department of the faculty member's highest FTE appointment
• Placeholder (formerly Planning Position): A way for which you can indicate a planned change for an unspecified faculty member
  
  • Most commonly this is a new hire (who isn't in your department yet), or it is some other change (E.g. a departure) for which you are not yet sure with whom it is associated
• Planned Change: The forecasted faculty career change event in which Medical School Finance is interested
  
  • New Hire, Departure, Retention, Change in Track/Rank (Promotion), Clinical Activity in new location/affiliation, and Other
• Rank: The job title of the faculty member (E.g. Research Professor, LEO Lecturer, etc.)
• Total Compensation: The sum of the individual compensation amounts across a faculty member's appointments
• Track: The current career path for the faculty member (Instructional [Tenure], Clinical, Lecturer, Research, Supplemental)