Consult Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary for spelling and word breaks. American spellings are preferred over British.
Advisor, not adviser
Alumna/alumnae; alumnus/alumni
Catalog, not catalogue
Classwork, not class work
Computer terms: database, data file, debug, hard copy, input, log on, online
Course work, not coursework
Emerita/emeritae; emeritus/emeriti
Curriculum vitae (singular); curricula vitae (plural); vita informal)
Ex-officio, with a hyphen
Fund raising when used as a noun; fund-raising when used as an adjective
*3/8/11 Note: Chicago Manual of Style (15th) 7.84: "The trend toward closed compounds. With frequent use, open or hyphenated compounds tend to become closed (on line to on-line to online). Chicago's general adherence to Webster does no preclude occasional exceptions when the closed spellings have become widely accepted, pronunciation and readability are not at stake, and keystrokes can be saved."
Full-time, half-time, and part-time are hyphenated whether they precede or follow the noun.
In-depth, in-service when used as an adjective before the noun
Multicampus
Noncredit, not non-credit
Nondegree, not non-degree
Nonprofit, not non-profit
Percent, not per cent
under way – two words, unless referring to a ship or airplane in motion
United States = noun; U.S. = adjective
University-wide but campuswide, citywide, nationwide, statewide
