N. Usage

Some unique names, titles, words, and phrases commonly used at The University of Iowa.
  • American College Testing Program (ACT)
  • Department of Communication Studies (not "Communications")
  • computer-assisted instruction
  • course work (two words)
  • cross-listed
  • database
  • day care (n.)
  • day-care (adj.)
  • decision making (no hyphen as compound noun)
  • decision-making (adjective)
  • faculty and staff (not faculty/staff)
  • fair housing policy (no hyphen)
  • fieldwork (one word)
  • forums (not "fora")
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • gymnasiums (not "gymnasia")
  • half-time
  • neoclassical
  • Nobel Prize
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • nonaccredited
  • nonmajor
  • non-native
  • nonthesis
  • Office of Student Financial Aid (not "Aids")
  • part-time
  • postdoctoral (one word)
  • prelaw (one word)
  • preprofessional (one word)
  • problem solving (no hyphen as compound noun)
  • problem-solving (adjective)
  • Regents institution
  • State Board of Regents (second reference, "Regents")
  • state-of-the-art (as modifier)
  • teacher education program
  • theater (general usage), but "theatre arts" in Theatre Arts copy
  • except Opera Theater
  • Veterans Affairs Medical Center (not "VA" or "Hospital")
  • vice president (do not hyphenate)
  • Weeg Computing Center in general usage, but "University computing center" (note lowercasing) may be used where it is needed to make clear that the reference is to the University's central research computing facility
  • work-up
  • workstation
  • X-ray (capital "X" and hyphen, in all cases)