All Full-time and Part-time Students – All students attending Grantham, the Philadelphia Campus, and Abroad

All Grantham Students – Those students who are residents, commuters and off-campus residents attending the Grantham campus

All Female Students

All Male Students

All First-Year Students – Students coded by the registrar’s office as having up to 23.9 credits

All Sophomore Students – Students coded by the registrar’s office as having up to 56.9 credits

All Junior Students – Students coded by the registrar’s office as having up to 89.9 credits

All Senior Students – Students coded by the registrar’s office as being at or beyond 89.9 credits

The COE – All full-time Faculty, Cocurricular Educators, and Administrative Educators, COE Associates

Ranked Faculty Meeting – Those holding the rank of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor

All Employees – All faculty, staff, and administrative personnel. This includes full-time and part-time employees as well as any temporary employees with e-mail accounts, but not student employees.

All Finance – Lois Voigt, V. P., and those departments reporting directly to the vice-president

All Provosts – Kim Phipps, Provost, School of the Arts, School of Education and Social Sciences, School of Health and Natural Sciences, School of the Humanities, School of Mathematics, Engineering, and Business, Student Affairs, College Ministries, External Programs, Boyer Center, Registrar, Archives, Sider Institute, Athletics, Murray Library, Disability Services

All Planning – V.P. for Planning, and those departments reporting directly to the vice-president

All Advancement – Barry Goodling, V.P., and those departments reporting directly to the vice-president

All Staff – Staff employees are personnel (other than students) who are paid on an hourly basis

All Administrators – Administrative employees are salaried personnel who are employed on a contractual basis

All Curricular – Academic Dean, and professionals in the following areas: Curriculum, External Programs, Faculty Development, Enrollment, Career Development, Disability Services, Information Technology Services, Internship Programs, Learning Workshop, Oakes Museum of Natural History, Philadelphia Campus, Service-Learning, Employment Coordinator, Historian and Archivist, and Registrar

All Co-curricular – Co-curricular educators include the Dean of Students, Dean of College Ministries, and professionals in the following areas: Athletics, College Ministries, Counseling, Residence Life, Community Development and Minority Student Life

All Employees less COE – All employees, excluding all full-time faculty, cocurricular educators, and administrative educators

All Account Directors – Those persons with managerial authority over a department who are responsible for the financial performance of his/her department(s)

All Student Employees – All Messiah students who are also defined to be current, active student employees. This includes federal work-study and institutional work-study student employees.

*Please note: Most of the Employee related distribution group descriptions were gathered from the Community of Educators Handbook and/or the Employee Policy and Procedures Manual