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Employee Attributes

Employee Type

These are all of the values assigned to the employeeType attribute, as of August 17, 2023:

NC State Employee Types
employeeType
County Operational Supp
CVM House Officers
EHRA County Extension
EHRA Faculty
EHRA Non-Faculty
EHRA SAAO Tier 1
EHRA SAAO Tier 2
Graduate Assistants
Law Enforcement Officers
No Pay
Post Doc
SHRA Employee
Student Workers
Temp - Exempt from FLSA
Temp- Subject to FLSA
Unpaid Faculty
Unpaid Non-Faculty

Employee Title

The employeeTitle is not standardized. It can be the job description for the position, or it can be overridden with a preferred value by the user.

NCSU Affiliation

The ncsuAffiliation department is standardized to approximately 330 values at this time. Here are a few examples:

ncsuAffiliation Examples
ncsuAffiliation
Northampton County
Nuclear Engineering
Ofc of Information Technology
Off for Extension & Engagement
Office for Inst. Equity&Divers
Office of Faculty Development

Department Attributes

The departmentNumber is the 6-digit OUC code for the unit that the user works for. The departmentName is the corresponding name of the OUC from the official table. The first 2 digits of OUC always the code for the College or university-level unit. For example, here is part of the data for OIT:

Example OUC codes used for Department Number and Name
ouc ouc_desc
51 Office of Information Technology (OIT)
516001 Communication Technologies
516101 Calendaring and Email
516201 ComTech Data Center Operations & Infrastructure
517001 Advanced Computing
517101 Shared Services
517501 Center for Virtual Computing Lab
518001 Major University Projects