Spelling
- Consult Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary for spelling and word breaks. American spellings are preferred over British.
- Advisor, not adviser
- Alumna/alumnae; alumnus/alumni
- Catalog, not catalogue
- Classwork, not class work
- Computer terms: database, data file, debug, hard copy, input, log on, online
- Course work, not coursework
- Emerita/emeritae; emeritus/emeriti
- Curriculum vitae (singular); curricula vitae (plural); vita informal)
- Ex-officio, with a hyphen
- Fund raising when used as a noun; fund-raising when used as an adjective
- In-depth, in-service when used as an adjective before the noun
- Multicampus
- Noncredit, not non-credit
- Nondegree, not non-degree
- Nonprofit, not non-profit
- Percent, not per cent
- University-wide but campuswide, citywide, nationwide, statewide
- World Wide Web, Web site, home page, Internet, Webmaster