BYU Terms - A

Advanced Placement Program; Advanced Placement teachers; Advanced Placement courses

See individual colleges for more information, but generally follow this format:

College of Life Sciences Advisement Center\

There is one known exception:

the David O. McKay School of Education Advisement and Certification Office

AIM (Academic Information Management); AIM system

The official title of the document is The Aims of a BYU Education—just like The Mission of Brigham Young University. Capitalize but don’t italicize or enclose in quotation marks these full titles.

The Aims of a BYU Education (published 1995)

a BYU aim

the aims

the third aim of a BYU education

all-state (generic use)

All-State Academic Tournament (capitalized in official names)

In most cases, the university’s alumni association should be referred to as BYU Alumni. This term is preferred when identifying programs, events, or groups overseen by the alumni association. When describing the association’s leadership or in formal usage, the full name (BYU Alumni Association) is appropriate.

Francine Peabody received a BYU Alumni Replenishment Grant.

BYU Alumni hosts the Traditions Ball each spring.

On this website you can find information about the BYU Alumni chapter in your area.

Amy Fennegan is president of the BYU Alumni Association.

alumnus/alumni (male singular/male plural)

alumna/alumnae (female singular/female plural)

alum (used informally for either singular male or female)

alumni/alums (mixed male and female plural)

The official titles of application forms are capitalized. For example:

Application for Admission to Graduate Studies

Application for Admission to the J. Reuben Clark Law School

Application for Graduation

Application to Resume Graduate Study

BYU Admission and Scholarship Application (refers to the entire BeSmart.com website); admission application; admission process

Continuing Student Enrollment and Scholarship Deferment Application

LDS Missionary Enrollment and Scholarship Deferment Application

independent: since 2011 (football and men’s and women’s outdoor track and field)

Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF): BYU a member since 1992 (men’s volleyball, men’s and women’s indoor track and field, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving)

Mountain Rim Gymnastics Conference (MRGC): BYU a member since 2013

Mountain West Conference (MWC): BYU a member from 1999 to 2011

Pacific Coast Softball Conference (PCSC): BYU a member since 2013 (women’s softball)

West Coast Conference (WCC): BYU a member since 2011 (baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s golf, women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s volleyball)

Western Athletic Conference (WAC): BYU a member from 1962 to 1999

Do not capitalize the names of athletic teams.

cross country (distance-running sport); BYU cross country; however, cross-country skiing (As an exception to Webster’s rule of hyphenating cross-country, the nationwide usage for the distance-running sport does not include a hyphen, even when the term is used as an adjective.)

football; BYU football

men’s basketball; BYU men’s basketball

women’s volleyball; BYU women’s volleyball

Exceptions

Cheer Squad; BYU Cheer Squad; the Cougar Cheer Squad

Cougarettes

The name of an award is capitalized, but descriptive words and phrases that are not actually part of the award’s name are not. The word award may or may not be capitalized, depending on the award. For awards not listed here, it may be necessary to find their official usage online. See also fellowships and scholarships.

Academy Award

Emmy

New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award

Nobel Peace Prize; Nobel Prize; Nobel Prize in medicine; Nobel Prize winner; Nobel Prize–winning statesman (Use an en dash, not a hyphen, between Prize and winning in this instance.); Noble laureate

Pulitzer Prize–winning author (Use an en dash, not a hyphen, between Prize and winning in this instance.)

Rhodes Scholarship (but Rhodes scholar)

student Emmy; College Television Awards (official name)

BYU Awards

Abraham O. Smoot Citizenship Award

Adjunct Faculty Excellence Award

Alcuin Fellowship Award

Alumni Achievement Award(s)

Alumni Distinguished Service Award

Alumni Professorship Award

Alumni Service to Family Award

Ben E. Lewis Management Award

BYU Class of 1949 Young Faculty Award

Creative Works Award

Fred A. Schwendiman Performance Award

General Education Professorship Award

Honorary Alumni Award

Maeser awards

Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award

Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award

Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award

Karl G. Maeser General Education Professorship

Karl G. Maeser Professional Faculty Excellence Award

Phi Kappa Phi Award

Presidential Citation

Presidential Medallion

President’s Appreciation Award

Religious Education Transfer Professor

Sponsored Research Recognition Award

Student Award for Excellence in Teaching

Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship Award

Technology Transfer Award

University Professorship Award

Wesley P. Lloyd Award for Distinction in Graduate Education

Young Scholar Award