AAC&U Style Guide

CONTENTS

I. Introduction
Resources
Using This Guide
II. Names and Terms
AAC&U and Other Organizations
Programs, Initiatives, and Projects
Meetings and Institutes
Publications
Institutions
Schools, Boards, Departments, and Courses
Professional Titles
Racial and Ethnic Groups
III. Numbers
Words or Figures?
Dates
Number Ranges
IV. Punctuation and Formatting
Spacing
Commas and Semicolons
Colons
Quotations
Hyphens and Dashes
Lists
Capitalization
Italics
Web Pages
V. References
Text Citations
Reference Lists
Footnotes and Endnotes
VI. Word Lists
Troublesome Words and Expressions
Open Compounds

I. Introduction

Resources

The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition) is used for all AAC&U publications. Copies of the Chicago Manual of Style are available in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs. You can search the manual's contents online at www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/search.html.

AAC&U uses Webster's Eleventh New Collegiate Dictionary as a guide for spelling, hyphenation, word breaks, etc. When in doubt, check the dictionary. Print and CD-ROM versions of the dictionary are available in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs.

Bartleby.com's usage page, online at www.bartleby.com/usage, is a good resource for questions about grammar and usage that Chicago does not cover.

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Using This Guide

The style guide you are reading now is based upon Chicago Manual of Style and Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. This guide is not meant to be complete in itself; rather, it is designed to address common style questions and to clarify policy matters that are not resolved in those books. The guide is keyed throughout to Chicago (abbreviated CMS).

This guide should be adhered to in the running text of all major AAC&U publications, but may be judiciously adapted for marketing and meetings publications and elsewhere for graphic purposes. In such contexts, communications staff may choose to occasionally depart from Chicago style—for example, by spelling "twenty-first century" as "21st century."

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II. Names and Terms

AAC&U and Other Organizations

In the first reference to the association, the is put before the name in full, followed by the acronym in parentheses:

the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)

Subsequent references use the acronym (with ampersand):

AAC&U (not "the AAC&U" or "AACU")

When used on their own—even when used to replace proper names—"association" and like terms are lowercased (CMS 8.75).

The association was founded in 1915.

The Association of American Colleges and Universities was known as the Association of American Colleges (AAC) until 1995. Use the old name when referring specifically to work done by the association prior to the name change. (For information about citing works published before the name change, see Reference Lists, below.)

For organizations, institutions, and companies, "a the preceding a name, even when part of the official title, is lowercased in running text" (CMS 8.73).

The meeting was cosponsored by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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Programs, Initiatives, and Projects

References to programs, initiatives, and projects use initial capitalization and do not use quotation marks.

The AAC&U initiative Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility was launched in 2002.

For clarity, it is sometimes helpful to rewrite such sentences so that the name can be set off by commas.

AAC&U's initiative on global issues, Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility, was launched in 2002.

Subsequent references can be shortened.

The Shared Futures initiative is run by AAC&U's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives.

Program, initiative, project, and similar terms are always lowercased—even when they are used to stand in the place of a program name (CMS 8.75).

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Meetings and Institutes

References to meetings, conferences, and institutes are set in quotation marks when the full title of a single, unique event is given (CMS 8.76).

"Diversity and Learning: Democracy's Compelling Interest" was held in 2004.

Use initial capitalization but no quotation marks when referring to a named series of meetings or institutes.

The next Diversity and Learning conference will be held in 2006.

They sent a team to the Institute on General Education last year.

She has attended several Network for Academic Renewal conferences.

Note that AAC&U officially refers to Network for Academic Renewal events as conferences, not meetings.

Generic references to meetings are neither capitalized nor set in quotation marks (CMS 8.75).

AAC&U's 2005 annual meeting was held in San Francisco.

The institute is highly selective.

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Publications

References to periodical titles are italicized, as are book titles (CMS 8.178):

Liberal Education, Diversity Digest, AAC&U News, the Greater Expectations report

AAC&U treats published papers as books (italicizing the titles) rather than as essays (the titles of which, like article titles, are usually set in quotation marks). Names of book series are capitalized but not italicized (CMS 8.186).

Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain is the latest title in the Academy in Transition series.

"When newspapers and periodicals are mentioned in text, an initial the, even if part of the official title, is lowercased (unless it begins a sentence) and not italicized" (CMS 8.180):

the Washington Post, the New York Times Magazine

See also Italics.

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Institutions

The standard style for referring to universities that have several locations is to use an en dash between the name of university and the location (CMS 6.86):

the University of Wisconsin–Madison

However, some institutions have specific style preferences. When in doubt, check the institution's Web site.

Institutions that do not have unique names—King's College, Westminster College, Central College, Trinity College/University, and Wheaton College—should be identified by state (in parentheses) at first reference:

Westminster College (Utah)

Note that, for organizations, institutions, and companies, "a the preceding a name, even when part of the official title, is lowercased in running text" (CMS 8.73).

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Schools, Boards, Departments, and Courses

Schools, divisions, and departments are lowercased except where the official title is used (CMS 8.73).

The chemistry department is offering a new course this semester.

The Department of English, in coordination with the Division of Liberal Arts, oversaw the project.

Boards are generally lowercased (CMS 8.73):

the state board of regents, AAC&U's board of directors, the board of trustees

But should be capitalized when the official title precedes the full title of the insitution to which they are attached:

the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities

Names of specific courses are capitalized but not set in quotation marks; generic course references are not capitalized (CMS 8.92).

Professor Jones taught Twentieth-Century African History again this fall.

On many campuses, composition is a required course.

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Professional Titles

When a title follows a name or is used in place of a name in running text, it is generally lowercased.

Nancy Dye, president of Oberlin College, served on AAC&U's board.

But "titles are capitalized when they immediately precede a personal name" (CMS 8.21):

President Nancy Dye, Professor John Ramsay, Board Chair Ronald A Crutcher

Named titles, such as endowed chairs, are capitalized regardless of whether they follow or precede the name (CMS 8.31).

Mary F. Smith is the Ronald McDonald Professor of Nutrition.

AAC&U does not use "Dr." or "PhD" in bylines or in running text when identifying individuals by title.

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Racial and Ethnic Groups

"Names of ethnic and national groups are capitalized" (CMS 8.41):

Arab, Arabian, Arab American

When these terms take the form of compounds, they are never hyphenated—not even when used as adjectives (see also Open Compounds):

African American professor, Native American culture

Do not capitalize "black" or "white" (CMS 8.43).

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III. Numbers

Words or Figures?

In most nontechnical contexts, whole numbers from one through one hundred, larger round numbers, and any number beginning a sentence should be spelled out (CMS 9.3).

The strategic plan includes five priority areas.

More than three thousand people attended the meeting.

For other numbers, figures are used. Use commas with figures over 999 (except for years).

The membership in the association numbers more than 1,150.

For percentages given in running text, use figures (CMS 9.19).

Almost 90 percent of the students understood the economic advantages of a college education.

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Dates

To date something by referring to a decade, use the full four-digit date with no apostrophe (CMS 9.37).

The 1980s saw a focus on revising curricula.

Centuries are spelled out (CMS 9.36):

the twenty-first century

"When specific dates are expressed, cardinal numbers are used" (CMS 9.35).

The conference will begin on March 8.

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Number Ranges

En dashes and figures are usually used for inclusive number ranges.

The conference will be held March 8–11.

Number ranges beginning at 101 or higher should be abbreviated according to the table at CMS 9.64. These same rules apply to year ranges:

the 1998–99 academic year, the events of 2002–4, the winter of 2000–2001

Note that "if from or between is used before the first of a pair of numbers, the en dash should not be used; instead, from should be followed by to or through, between by and" (CMS 9.63).

The conference will be held from March 8 to 11.

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IV. Punctuation

Spacing

Use one space, not two, between sentences and after colons (CMS 6.11).

Initials used in names should be separated by a single space "except when initials are used alone" (CMS 8.6):

E. M. Forster, M.L.K.

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Commas and Semicolons

In a series of more than two, use a comma before the and that ends the series (CMS 6.19).

The provost, the dean, and the president attended.

But, "when items in a series involve internal punctuation, they should be separated by semicolons" (CMS 6.60).

The meeting was attended by Dr. Green, a professor of biology; Dr. Smith, a professor of chemistry; and Dr. Wong, the dean of arts and sciences.

Note that, in all other uses, the segments of text connected by semicolons must be able to stand on their own as grammatically complete sentences.

Other rules for using commas and semicolons are in CMS 6.18–62.

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Colons

When two or more sentences follow a colon, capitalize the first word after the colon (CMS 6.63–64).

The article left several questions unanswered: Who would be responsible for designing the new course? How would the course address global issues? And how did the college plan to assess the course's effectiveness?

Otherwise, lowercase follows the colon.

It was decided: the college would add a capstone class.

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Quotations

Quotations are generally preceded by a comma unless they are "introduced by that, whether, or a similar conjunction" (CMS 6.53).

It was Emerson who wrote, "Blessed are those who have no talent."

Was it Stevenson who said that "the cruelest lies are often told in silence"?

"When a quotation is used as a syntactical part of a sentence"—as is typically the case when it is introduced by that or a similar conjunction—"it begins with a lowercase letter even if the original is a complete sentence" or begins with a capital (CMS 11.16).

Benjamin Franklin admonishes us to "plough deep while sluggards sleep."

But, "when the quotation has a more remote syntactic relation to the rest of the sentence, the initial letter remains capitalized."

As Franklin advised, "Plough deep while sluggards sleep."

Quotes within quotes are enclosed in single quotation marks (CMS 11.33).

Quotation marks are omitted in epigraphs (CMS 11.40).

When material is omitted within a quote, three spaced dots are used to indicate that the ellipsis occurs within a sentence, four to indicate that one or more sentences have been omitted. Ellipses are not, however, used at the beginning or end of quotations (CMS 11.57–58). Interpolations are set in brackets (CMS 11.68).

He said that "the college [would] participate . . . if it could raise ample funds."

Colons, semicolons, question marks, and exclamation points, unlike periods and commas, "follow closing quotation marks unless a question mark or an exclamation point belongs within the quoted matter" (CMS 6.9).

"What facilities will be needed for the meeting?" she asked.

She stressed the importance of "teaching about other cultures"; indeed, the promotion of global learning was a central goal of her tenure as dean.

Decisions about whether to run in or set off (block) quotes are made by the editor and the designer based upon column width and appearance. Generally speaking, quotes spanning four lines or more are set off.

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Hyphens and Dashes

Hyphens are used in compound words and to separate characters (CMS 6.81–82). Note that many compounds that are not hyphenated when used as nouns or after nouns are hyphenated when used before nouns.

The program stresses service learning; the program has a service-learning requirement.

My neighborhood is middle class; I live in a middle-class neighborhood.

See CMS 7.90 for further details about hyphenating compounds; see Open Compounds for a list of compounds that AAC&U never hyphenates.

En dashes are used primarily in ranges to designate to (see CMS 6.83; see also Number Ranges).

The conference will be held March 10–12.

She took the Boston–New York train.

En-dashes also are used "in place of a hyphen in a compound adjective when one of its elements is an open compound or when two or more of its elements are open compounds or hyphenated compounds" (CMS 6.85).

a New Hampshire–based business, a campus–community dialogue, a student–teacher conference

Note that using a hyphen in the above examples would create ambiguity.

En dashes are sometimes used in the names of universities: see Institutions, above.

Em dashes are the most common dashes. They are used to set off text and frequently take the place of other punctuation (CMS 6.87–94).

The article—which focuses on diversity programs—challenges several widely held assumptions.

Note that "no sentence should contain more than two em dashes" (CMS 6.87).

Using dashes: To create an en dash in Microsoft Word, type Ctrl + Num- (the control key and the minus key on the number keypad). To create an em dash in Microsoft Word, type Ctrl + Alt + Num- (the control key and the alt key and the minus key on the number keypad).

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Lists

Run-in lists (CMS 6.126) frequently use numerals or letters enclosed in parentheses to mark divisions. Chicago style specifies (1) that "no punctuation precedes the first parenthesis if the last word of the introductory material is a verb or a preposition"; (2) that "if the introductory material is an independent clause, a colon should precede the first parenthesis"; and (3) that "items are separated by commas unless any of the items require internal commas, in which case all the items should be separated by semicolons."

A vertical list introduced by a sentence (CMS 6.127) uses a colon and follows these rules:

1. Listed items that follow after the colon do not begin with a capital letter and do not have closing punctuation unless they are complete sentences.
2. If the listed items are numbered, a period follows the number and each listed item begins with a capital letter.
3. If a listed item runs beyond one line, the second line aligns with the
   first word in the first line after the number or bullet.

In a vertical list that completes a sentence (CMS 6.129),

• no colon is used after the introductory material;
• the first words of the listed items do not begin with capital letters;
• semicolons are used at the end of each item;
• no and is used at the end of the penultimate listing.

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Capitalization

Titles of articles and books, as well as names of programs, initiatives, projects, and meetings, follow the style recommended in CMS 8.167:

1. Always capitalize the first and last words both in titles and subtitles and all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and some conjunctions—but see rule 4).
2. Lowercase the articles the, a, and an.
3. Lowercase prepositions, regardless of length, except when they are stressed (through in A River Runs Through It), are used adverbially or adjectivally (up in Look Up, down in Turn Down, on in The On Button, etc.), are used as conjunctions (before in Look Before You Leap, etc.), or are part of a Latin expression used adjectivally or adverbially (De Facto, In Vitro, etc.).
4. Lowercase the conjunctions and, but, for, or, nor.
5. Lowercase the words to and as in any grammatical function, for simplicity's sake.
6. Lowercase the second part of a species name, such as lucius in Esox lucius, or the part of a proper name that would be lowercased in text, such as de or von.

Capitalization of hyphenated terms within titles follows the "traditional rules" spelled out at CMS 8.170. These rules specify that the first hyphenated word is always capitalized and that subsequent elements are capitalized unless they are articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, or the second element in a hyphenated spelled-out number:

Service-Learning Programs in the Twenty-first Century

There are, however, exceptions to these hyphenation rules: (1) if the first element is a prefix or combining form that could not stand by itself as a word, the second element is not capitalized unless it is a proper noun or a proper adjective; (2) if the lowercasing of a term would create the appearance of inconsistency (as in twenty-first century when hyphenated as a compound), capitals can be used. Thus,

Anti-intellectualism in Twenty-First-Century America

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Italics

Within text, use italics sparingly. Foreign words or terms should be italicized unless they have become part of standard English and appear in Webster (CMS 7.51–56).

See Publications, above, for information about italicizing the titles of works.

Use "reverse italics"—regular, roman font—for text that would normally be italicized but appears within italicized text (CMS 8.184).

Diversity Digest is published by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

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Web Pages

AAC&U differs from Chicago in dropping the http:// that typically precedes Web addresses. This policy holds even for addresses that are not preceded by www. Slashes that appear at the end of URLs are also dropped. For example, the following URLs:

http://www.aacu.org/, http://news.google.com/

should appear in running text as:

www.aacu.org, news.google.com

If it is necessary to break a URL or an e-mail address at the end of a printed line, the break should occur after a colon, slash, or the symbol @ or before a period or other punctuation. Hyphens should never be added to a URL at the line break (CMS 7.44).

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V. References

Text Citations

AAC&U uses the author-date system for references. In this system, "sources are cited in the text, usually in parentheses, by the author's last (family) name, the publication date of the work cited, and a page number if needed" (CMS 16.4). No comma is used between the name and the date, but a comma does separate date and page number. Et al. is used for text citations of works with more than three authors.

Text citations "are usually placed just before a mark of punctuation" (CMS 16.112)—often in the middle of the sentence, following the author's name or a description of the work. Text citations for block quotes follow after the closing punctuation.

Citations need only include reference information that is not already included in the sentence.

The Court's decision is summarized in Perspectives on Justice (Jordan et al. 1979).

Rosenberg (1962) wrote about three epidemics in The Cholera Years.

As Peter Ewell points out (2004, 5), "it is often claimed that the ends of general education . . . are excruciatingly difficult to describe and assess."

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Reference Lists

Full citation details appear in the reference list, which is titled "References" (not "Works Cited"). Author-date reference lists are alphabetized and, when more than one work by the same author is cited, ordered chronologically (CMS 16.93). In AAC&U periodicals, initials are used in place of full first and middle names; in other publications, full names can be used, but only if they are applied consistently throughout.

Following are a few examples of proper style for citing commonly encountered kinds of sources.

Books: covered in CMS 17.16–147

Association of American Colleges and Univeristies. 2002. Greater
expectations: A new vision for learning as a nation goes to
college. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges
and Universities.

All words in the title, except for the first word, the first word after the colon, and proper names, are lowercased (CMS 17.51). Here, the association's name is given in full twice, once as author and once as publisher (CMS 17.47).

Note that the Association of American Colleges and Universities was formerly known as the Association of American Colleges. When referring to works published by the association before the name change, "the name on the title page is the one to use, not the current name" (CMS 17.107).

Following is another example of a book reference:

Walker, J. R., and T. Taylor. 1998. The Columbia guide to online
style. New York: Columbia University Press.

In this example, note that the first author's name is followed by a comma, and that only the first author's name is inverted (CMS 17.27). Columbia has been capitalized in the title because it is a proper name. As is the case here, no state needs to be indicated after the city of publication when the state is widely known and unlikely to be confused with another city of the same name (CMS 17.100).

Contributions to multiauthor books: covered in CMS 17.69

Schultheiss, K. 2001. Integrating science into gender and
women's studies programs. In Gender, science, and the
undergraduate curriculum: Building two-way streets, ed.
C. M. Musil, 47–54. Washington, DC: Association of
American Colleges and Universities.

Here, the title of the chapter follows the same capitalization style as the book title. The chapter title has no special formatting (no quotation marks are used). Note that the ampersand in the title is spelled out as and (CMS 17.52). Also note that, because ed. precedes the editors name, it here stands for "edited by" rather than "editor"—hence, the plural eds. is never used in this context (CMS 17.42).

Journals: covered in CMS 17.154–79

Smith, P. 2004. Exploring reality: Cultural studies and critical
thinking. Liberal Education 90 (3): 26–31.

The titles of articles are lowercased and treated in the same way as contributions to multiauthor books. Journal titles, however, are capitalized. The volume number follows after the journal title without punctuation, and the issue number or season is set in parentheses (CMS 17.163). (Note that AAC&U uses numbers instead of seasons in citations of journals that have both an issue number and a season.) When no issue number or season is given, no space follows the colon before the page numbers (CMS 17.169).

References to an entire issue of a journal that is devoted to a special theme use the editor's name in place of the author's and the theme in place of the article title (CMS 17.170):

Carey, S., ed. 2005. Science and engaged learning. Special issue,
Peer Review 7, no. 2.

Electronic journals: covered in CMS 17.180–81.

O'Connor, N. 2004. Finding a way: Parenting in graduate
school and beyond. On Campus with Women 33 (2),
www.aacu.org/ocww/volume33_2/feature.cfm.

The URLs for electronic citations follow after the regular journal reference; for time-sensitive material, the date the material was last accessed should also be added (CMS 17.180). Because the example above does not exist in a print edition, no page numbers are given. For print journals that also exist online, a colon followed by page numbers and a period should precede the URL (CMS 17.181). Note that AAC&U, unlike Chicago, drops the http:// that typically precedes Web addresses.

Lectures and presentations: covered in CMS 17.215

Shulman, L. 2005. Pedagogies of uncertainty. Paper presented
at the annual meeting of the Association of American
Colleges and Universities, San Francisco.

The author, date, and title are handled like an article, with information about the paper's occasion—sponsorship and location—following.

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Footnotes and Endnotes

AAC&U uses footnotes and endnotes solely for the purpose of explanation or elaboration—never for citation. Decisions about using notes are left to the discretion of the editor. For additional information about footnotes and endnotes, see CMS 16.19–70.

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VI. Word Lists

Troublesome Words and Expressions

See CMS 5.202 for a larger list.

9/11: our standard usage, although lengthier phrases ("the events of September 11, 2001") can be used according to the editor's discretion

adviser: not advisor

African American, Arab American, Asian American, etc.: never hyphenated (see Open Compounds)

alumni: in common usage, refers to both men and women, but some authors may prefer to use alumni and alumnae (since the Latin terms are inflected for gender) to avoid potential bias; decisions about the use of this term may be left to the author's discretion

a.m., p.m.: with periods; using small capitals without periods is also acceptable (see CMS 15.44)

black: lowercased, even when referring to African Americans

blog: preferred over the more formal Web log

cocurricular: not hyphenated; similarly, extracurricular

college-ready: always hyphenated

communication/communications: communications refers to media and public relations fields and should only be used in that context

comprise/compose: from CMS 5.202: "To comprise is 'to be made up of, to include' ('the whole comprises the parts'). To compose is 'to make up, to form the substance of something' ('the parts compose the whole'). The phrase comprised of . . . is poor usage."

coursework: one word

curriculum/curricula: curriculum is singular, curricula plural

data: data is plural—"the data show," not "the data shows"

diverse: frequently misused to designate racial and ethnic minorities; note that only an entity that consists of different elements can really be "diverse" (a student population or a faculty group can be diverse, but not individual students or faculty members)

e-mail: hyphenated

e-portfolio: do not used stylized spellings (such as ePortfolio) except when the term occurs in the title of a specific program

faculty: can be used as shorthand for faculty members but not for a faculty member

historically black colleges and universities, traditionally white colleges and universities, etc.: lowercased

historic, historical, etc.: preceded by a, not an

Internet: note initial capital

Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative: should be referred to as an initiative, not as a campaign.

lifelong: one word, not hyphenated

Caryn McTighe Musil: always use full middle name on first reference

metarubric: one word, not hyphenated

Network for Academic Renewal conference: use conference, not meeting, when formally referring to the conference series (whenever the term is preceded by Network or Network for Academic Renewal)

New Academy: capitalized (when used in the context of Greater Expectations)

nontenured: not hyphenated; but a hyphen is used when "non" modifies a compound—non-tenure-eligible, non-tenure-track

online: not hyphenated

percent: do not use % in running, nontechnical text

PhD, MA, etc.: do not use periods in degree abbreviations

podcast: one word, lowercased

policy maker: two words

postsecondary: not hyphenated

preprofessional: not hyphenated

professoriate: not professoriat

Carol Geary Schneider: always use full middle name on first reference

service learning: open (not hyphenated) execept before a noun (service-learning experience)

that/which: from CMS 5.202: "That is used restrictively to narrow a category or identify a particular item being talked about ('any building that is taller must be outside the state'); which is used nonrestrictively—not to narrow a class or identify a particular item but to add something about an item already identified ('alongside the officer trotted a toy poodle, which is hardly a typical police dog'). Which should be used restrictively only when it is preceded by a preposition ('the situation in which we find ourselves'). Otherwise it is almost always preceded by a comma, a parenthesis, or a dash."

theater: standard American spelling is theater, not theatre; but, the British spelling should be retained when it appears in a formal name (such as the name of a specific theater)

toward, backward, etc.: not towards or backwards (standard American usage omits the final s)

U.S.: with periods, no space; but, we do not use periods in USA

Webcast: one word, note initial capital

Web page: two words, note initial capital

Web site: two words, note initial capital; use Web page or Web pages instead of Web site when referring to a single page or a part of a Web site (AAC&U has a Web site, but the annual meeting has Web pages)

white: lower case, even when used as a racial signifier

who/whom: from CMS 5.202: "Who is a nominative pronoun used as 1) the subject of a finite verb ('it was Jim who brought the coffee today'), or 2) a predicate nominative when it follows a linking verb ('that's who'). Whom is an objective pronoun that may appear as 1) the object of a verb ('I learned nothing about the man whom I saw'), or 2) the object of a preposition ('the woman to whom I owe my life')."

World Wide Web: note initial capitals

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Open Compounds

AAC&U generally follows CMS guidelines (7.90) for hyphenating compounds when they precede nouns (see Hyphens and Dashes). However, we opt never to hyphenate some of the compounds with which our audience is particularly familiar—the names of disciplines, educational terms, etc.—because there is little risk of confusion. Following is a partial list of compounds that should always be left open.

affirmative action
African American
American studies
Arab American
area studies
art history
Asian American
business school
community college
community service
comparative literature
computer science
creative writing
cultural studies
electrical engineering
environmental science
ethnic studies
faculty development
film studies
financial aid
general education
higher education
high school
information literacy
law school
liberal arts
liberal education
mechanical engineering
Middle Eastern
Native American
political science
public relations
quantitative literacy
quantitative reasoning
religious studies
student learning
study abroad
women's studies

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