Academic Success Center (on second reference, • ASC •)

Advanced Placement test (on second reference, • AP test •)

Advocates for a Sustainable Future (on second reference, • ASF •)

advisor, advisory

African American (noun and adj.)

afterschool (adj.)

A. J. Gordon Fellow (never just • AJ, A.J. • )

A. J. Gordon Memorial Chapel or A. J. Gordon Chapel (Omit the. Lowercase in second / general references. Never just • A.J., or A.J. Chapel •)

A. J. Gordon Scholar (never just • AJ, A.J. •)

all right

alumnae, alumnus, alumni (use • alum, alums • only in very informal pieces)

A.M. / P.M. (Small capital letters. On website, a.m. / p.m. is acceptable, too.)

annual fund (in general references only, lowercased. Refer to Gordon's as • the Gordon Fund •)

artist-in-residence

artwork

Athletics(Gordon Athletics as the name of the department; Athletics on second reference to the department; athletics when referring to activities overseen by the department), Gordon (name of department)

autoformat

Auxiliary Services
 

B.A., B.S.

Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science

bachelor's degree (as a general reference)

Baccalaureate (the service / event)

the Balkans Semester for the Study of War and Peace

Barrington Center for the Arts (on second reference, • Barrington •)

base camp (La Vida base camp)

the bell (the object)

The Bell (the blog)

the Bennett Athletic and Recreation Center, the Bennett Athletic Center

bimonthly / biweekly

Blackboard

black box theater (as general reference only; refer to the theater in the Barrington Center for the

Arts as • the Margaret Jensen Theatre •)

Board of Trustees (Board on second reference)

Brigham Athletic Complex (omit the)
 

cafe (or café)

Campus Events Council (for communications on campus, CEC is acceptable)

campus police  use • Gordon Police •

campuswide

the Career and Connection Institute

Catacombs

caseworker

cellphone

the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL on second reference)

the Center for Evangelicalism and Culture 

the Center for Faith and Inquiry (use 'and')

the Center for Technology Services

chair (not chairman or chairwoman)

Chapel (the regularly scheduled service at the A. J. Gordon Chapel)

the Chapel (the building, on second reference; first reference should be to • A. J. Gordon Memorial Chapel •)

the Chapel Office (the administrative department)

Chapel credit Christian Life and Worship credit

Chester's Place

circa (spell out; do not italicize)

Clarendon Scholar

coauthor

co-chair

co-coach

codirector

collegewide

Commencement (not • Graduation •)

Common Core (always capitalize both words)

Conversations with the President (do not italicize)

Convocation (always capitalize)

Core curriculum, Core courses (capitalize first word only)

Coy Pond Piranhas

the Center for Student Counseling and Wellness

courseload

coursework

cyberspace
 

Dance team (omit the)

daylight-saving time

decision making (noun / verb), decision-making (adj.)

DEEP FAITH Week

dialogue

Discovery (or La Vida Discovery)

dorm, dormitory use • residence hall •

download

double major (as noun, verb and adj.)
 

E

East Coast

Eastern (in reference to culture); eastern (in reference to geography)

e-business

e-commerce

Ed.D.

editor-in-chief

email

extra-biblical
 

faculty/faculty member (faculty refers to the overall group; use faculty member when referring to an individual.)

fax in contact information blocks, put a capital F and space before the number • F 978 555 4444 •)

field trip

the Fighting Scot (mascot), the Fighting Scots (athletic team nickname)

fieldwork

filmmaker

Finance and Faith Forum

firsthand

first-year student

five-year engineering program use • 3-2 engineering program •

forward (not forwards)

Fowler Campus  On rare occasion this is called for, use • Dale E. and Sarah Fowler Campus •

freshman use • first-year student •

Fulbright Teaching Assistant | Fulbright Teaching Assistantship | Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program

full-time

fundraiser, fundraising
 

GBay

Gillies Lounge, Gillies

the Global Education Office (GEO on second reference)

the Global Honors Institute

the Gordon College Foundation

the Gordon College Student Association (not Government) (GCSA is acceptable in communications to campus community)

global programs

global internships or global internships

Gordon in Orvieto

Gordon-sponsored, Gordon-owned (adj.)

the Gordon Commission

the Gordon Fund (annual fund is acceptable in internal communication)

Gordon Police (omit "the" and "department")

grade point average

graduation (do not capitalize; official name of event is Commencement)

the Grapevine Consortium

The Great Conversation (capitalize all 3 words)

Greater Boston

gray
 

hands-on (adj.)

health care as noun / healthcare as adjective 

the Hill (to refer informally to Nyland, Fulton and Tavilla halls)

Hispanic

historic: use the article a, not an  (example: • a historic occasion •)

History Alive!   (This is no longer a Gordon College program.)

holistic

Homecoming and Family Weekend

homepage

homestay

Hypernikon
 

Idiom

If I Told You . . .

Institute for Public History  use • The Gordon College Institute for Public History •

intercollegiate

internet

lowercase (as verb, noun)
 

Jenks Learning Resource Center

Jenks Library

Jerusalem and Athens Forum

La Vida (formally, use • La Vida Outdoor Program Ministries • and • La Vida Center for Outdoor Education and Leadership •)

La Vida base camp (base campon second reference)

the Loggia, the DEC Loggia, the DEC Loggia of Technology (in KOSC)

like (acceptable as a substitute for such as, except in very formal communications)

Listen: A Journal of Global Education

log in (verb) / login (adj. or noun)

login name

long-term (as adj.)

longtime
 

M.A.

MacDonald Auditorium

master's degree in music education

Master of Divinity degree

Master of Science in Financial Analysis (MSFA on second reference)

matchup

M.Ed.

midsemester, midterm

mini-quad

multicultural

multidisciplinary

multiethnic
 

noncredit

nongovernmental

nonlab

nonmajor(s)

non-native

nonprofit

nonverbal

not-for-profit (adj.)
 

O

off campus (noun) / off-campus (adj)

Office of Student Life (Student Life is acceptable for on-campus audience)

okay, OK (acceptable in informal communications; do not use in formal documents)

on campus (noun) / on-campus (adj)

online

Orientation

overarching
 

the Parent Grapevine

the Partners Program

part-time

percent (spell out in sentences, and use numeral for the number; use symbol % only in charts and in special cases)

Ph.D.

Phillips Music Center

Phillips Recital Hall

Philosophy of Education (always capitalize in reference to Gordon's)

Pike Scholars

the PIT

poet-in-residence

postgraduate

pre-engineering concentration

preK

pre-law concentration

premedical concentration (pre-med is acceptable in informal pieces and on second reference)

premier (best or most important)

premiere (first performance)

prenursing concentration

pre-occupational therapy concentration

pre-physical therapy concentration

prepracticum

pre-professional

preregistration

Presidential Fellows use Gordon College Presidential Fellows

Princemere Journal (omit "the")

problem solving (noun / verb) / problem-solving (adj.)

Public Safety  use • Gordon Police •

Residence Life (office), residence life (general)

résumé

the rock gym use the La Vida Rock Gym at the Bennett Athletic Center

shortcut

scholar-in-residence

Scot Radio

set up (verb), setup (noun)

Shields House (omit the)

short-term (as adj.)

sitemap

slideshow

sociocultural

Southern (in reference to culture); southern (in reference to geography)

sports routinely use athletics, Gordon Athletics

Statement of Life and Conduct (always capitalize in reference to Gordon's)

Student Employment, or the Student Employment Office

Student Financial Services, or the Student Financial Services Office

the Student Health Center

Student Health Services

Student Life (acceptable for on-campus audience; for communications beyond campus, use • Office of Student Life •)

the Studio for Art, Faith and History

subcellular

Sunnyside (in internal references; Chapel Dining Hall in external references)

Sweaty-Toothed Madmen

syllabi

The Tartan

theater (unless spelled differently in official name of a building, department, or organization)

Theatre Department

Thematic Core (always capitalize both words)

timeline

toward

troubleshoot

trustee(s)

Tupper Hall

the Turf (informally, for the Brigham soccer field and track)

twice-weekly

U

underway

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

U.S. (and U.K., U.A.R., G.D.R., U.S.S.R., et al)

U.S. Exposure program
 

versus (spell out in sentences; abbreviate as v. in Gordon Athletics charts and listings)

vice president (lowercase unless title precedes the individual's name)

the Village

voicemail

Vox Populi (omit the)
 

W

Washington, D.C.   (and if sentence continues, add a comma after D.C.)

the Web

web address

web design

weblink

webmaster

web page

website

weekday

weeklong

well-being

well known (noun) / well-known (adj.)

the West

West Coast

Western (in reference to culture); western (in reference to geography)

wholistic  use holistic

wi-fi

work-study

the World Wide Web

writer-in-residence