Communications & Marketing
- Adviser, not advisor
- African-American hyphenated; Asian American (no hyphen); Native American (no hyphen)
- Alumnus: One male graduate
- Alumna: One female graduate
- Alumnae: Two or more female grads
- Alumni: Two or more male or mixed-gender grads; avoid “alumnae/i
- Alumni association: capitalize only when “Union College” precedes it
- B.A., B.S., M.A., Ph.D.: Include periods
- Bachelor’s degree: Lowercase
- Board of trustees: Capitalize only when “Union College” precedes it
- Chair: Not chairwoman, chairman, or chairperson
- Class of 2028 (not Class of ’28)
- Committee: Capitalize only in full name, e.g., the Curriculum Committee
- Course work: Two words
- Emeritus, emerita, emeriti: no italics; directly follows the word “professor”
- Every day: Two words unless used as an adjective — e.g., “an everyday event”
- First-year student: Hyphenated as a compound adjective
- Freshman: Avoid (use first-year student).
- Latino, Latina: Latinx should be used only when a specific individual or organization requests it as a gender-neutral alternative to Latino (m) or Latina (f)