NASA Glenn — no longer NASA Lewis.
NEO Beam Alliance Ltd. — as a result of the partnership between Kent State and Mercury Plastics a factory was created. The factory is called NEO Beam Alliance Ltd.
NEOUCOM — Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine.
numbers — follow the AP Stylebook with the exception of credit hours. See the entry for credit hours above.
offices — see under names of.
OhioLINK — use this form.
page numbers — follow AP.
The information is on Page 21.
The index appears on Pages 395-399.
Check the index (Page 395) for all listings.
Pan-African — hyphenate.
Child Development Center — spell out in full and capitalize for the first reference; for subsequent references use the center
percentages — use number and write out the word in body copy; use number and percent symbol in tabulated copy.
Enrollment increased 5 percent.
plaza — William B. and Marion C. Risman Plaza or Risman Plaza on first reference; plaza for subsequent reference.
president — follow the AP Stylebook.
Dr. Lester A. Lefton, is Kent State’s 11th president.
President Lefton greeted the students.
The president greeted the new Kent State freshman students.
Presidents Council — always capitalize; do not use an apostrophe.
President’s List — always capitalize and use the apostrophe.
President’s Medallion Society — always capitalize and use the apostrophe.
program — see under names of.
RCET — use Research Center for Educational Technology on first reference.
Rec Center — see Student Recreation and Wellness Center.
Regional Campuses — see under names of, campuses. Consult the University Administration section of the campus telephone directory for a complete listing of the Regional Campuses, including addresses and telephone numbers. Always write out in full and capitalize; subsequent references should be capitalized: Kent State University Ashtabula Campus, Kent State Ashtabula, A htabula Campus. The Regional Campuses are as follows: Kent State Ashtabula, Kent State East Liverpool, Kent State Geauga, Kent State Salem, Kent State Stark, Kent State Trumbull and Kent State Tuscarawas.
requirements — write out in full and capitalize the names of university requirements and subcategories.
the Liberal Education Requirements (LER)
Composition
Mathematics, Logic and Foreign Languages
Humanities and Fine Arts
Social Sciences
Basic Sciences
Diversity
the Transfer Module
the Writing-Intensive Course Requirement
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum — not Rock-n-Roll; no ampersand.
R.S.V.P. — follow AP style in all instances.
SBC Classroom — obsolete; see AT&T Classroom.
Schoonover Stadium — use this form for the name of the varsity baseball facility.
semester — capitalize only when referring to an official term; 2008 Fall Semester; Spring Semester 2008. But lowercase fall semester or fall 2004. Also Summer Session I, II and III; and Winter and Spring Intersessions. But lowercase summer session and intersession.
student-athlete — hyphenate.
Student Recreation and Wellness Center — write out in full for the first reference; Rec Center, the Rec or center for subsequent references.
superscript — do not use superscript with ordinal numbers.The university celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2010.
She taught ninth and 10th grades.
teams — use these forms: men’s Golden Flashes football team; women’s Golden Flashes baseball team; the team
Technology Transfer and Economic Development, Office of — formerly Technology Transfer.
theatre — university style uses the -re ending unless the -er ending is part of an official name.
telephone numbers — use hyphens between elements, 330-672-2727.
Theodore Roosevelt High School — use this form
titles — titles of major works such as books, movies, plays, TV shows, journals, newspapers and magazines, names of ships are italicized. Titles of shorter works such as short stories, lectures, courses, articles, presentations, speeches, individual episodes of TV shows, songs, poems and works of art are set in quotations.
trademark — include the following statement at the end of your university communications, such as publications, Web pages and PowerPoint presentations:
Kent State, Kent State University, KSU are registered trademarks and may not be used without permission.
trustees — use Kent State University Board of Trustees on first reference; Board or Trustees for subsequent references.
Uumbaji Gallery — no diacritical marks.
university — use Kent State University on first reference; use Kent State, or the university for subsequent references.
upperclass, upperclassmen — use instead upper-division, upper-division students.
username — one word.
userID — one word.
Varsity “K” — use quotation marks around K.
Web For Students — trademarked name.
Web For Faculty — trademarked name.
Wick Poetry Center — no longer program.
Williamson Alumni Center — use Williamson Alumni Center on first reference; the alumni center or the center for subsequent references. The building was formerly Curtiss House, home to Kent State presidents until 1988.
workforce — one word.