Capitalize a title only when it comes before the name. Use lowercase when the title follows the name.
Kentucky State President Koffi C. Akakpo was appointed June 2023.
Koffi C. Akakpo, Kentucky State's 19th president, is a Toledo alumnus.
Place quotation marks around the names of books, movies, plays, poems, operas, television and radio programs, albums and songs, lecture titles, works of art and computer and video games (not course names or journals). Do not use italics.
The Department of Fine Arts presented a performance titled “The Wiz.”
Do not use quotation marks for the Bible and books that are primarily catalogs of reference materials.
At Kentucky State, students receive a copy of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
To abbreviate, use U.S., with periods. U.S. is acceptable on first reference. Do not use USA, unless in direct quotation.
Capitalize University when referring to Kentucky State, except when used as an adjective (university-wide, university-level).
The entire campus must attend the university-wide training on Title IX.
Use “for,” not “of,” as the preposition in the titles of Kentucky State’s vice presidents.
vice president for finance and administration
vice president for institutional advancement and external relations
All one word, lowercase, unless it starts a sentence.
Use who as the subject of a sentence, clause or phrase.
Who is that?
The student who lived in Kentucky Hall 101 was studious.
Use whom as the object of a verb or preposition.
The woman to whom this purse belongs must be contacted for its return.