MSU Facts & Style Guide
Communications and Marketing has developed this Style Guide as a service to the campus community; specific office and department names, as well as faculty and staff titles may be found in the directory. It is intended to achieve a consistent message in written or printed materials. If you need assistance with MSU information or editing, contact OCM at 606.783.9328 or k.tackett@moreheadstate.edu.
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A
AAC - Academic-Athletic Center
AC - Alumni Center
ADUC - Adron Doran University Center
AT - Alumni Tower
AY - Allie Young Hall
a.m. - Time before noon. Do not use A.M. or am.
adviser, not advisor (Associated Press style, use for marketing and/or news copy)
Affirmative Action Statement
Short Version - (to be used on single-page documents)
MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity, educational institution.
Complete version - (to be used on multiple-page documents)
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B
BA - Button Auditorium
BL - Butler Hall
BM - Baird Music Hall
BR - Breckinridge Hall
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C
CB - Combs Building
CC - Camden-Carroll Library
CH - Cartmell Hall
CO - Cooper Hall
CY - Claypool-Young Art Building
Capitalization - as a general rule, use "down" style. Official names, titles, and acronyms are capitalized; informal, shortened, or generic terms are not - the Department of Music, the music department, the department; exceptions - the University (if it refers to this campus) is always capitalized, whether noun or adjective.
course work - two words, not hyphenated.
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D
DAC - Derrickson Agricultural Complex
DH - Downing Hall
Degrees - Initial capitals for complete, official degree names (Bachelor of Arts) Use lowercase if generic (bachelor's degree); abbreviations use periods (B.A., Ph.D.)
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E
East Kentucky (not eastern in reference to this region of state)
e-mail (or E-mail if at the beginning of a sentence) Hyphenate.
e.mail@moreheadstate.edu - Do not use:e.mail@morehead-st.edu
Enrollment - approximately 9,000; current figures and enrollment detail available from Institutional Research and Assessment
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F
FH - Fields Hall
fax (or Fax if at the beginning of a sentence), not FAX.
Fifth-year - hyphenated
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G
GA - Garred House
GR - Greenhouse
GH - Ginger Hall
grade point average - do not hyphenate.
GPA - All capitals, no periods.
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