Editorial Style Guide - F

faculty

Employees whose assignments are to teach.

faculty advising

Process in which students receive assistance in planning their degree or certificate from a faculty member in their program of study.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Federal law that protects the privacy of student records. Abbreviation is acceptable on first reference if it aids readability and the unabbreviated name appears somewhere in the text. No periods.

fee

Lowercase when referring to additional charges not included in tuition. (E.g., technology fee, registration fee, and student activity fee.)

financial aid

Money made available from grants, scholarships, loans and work study. Capitalize both words when referring to the Financial Aid Department. See work study.

flyer

Preferred spelling when referring to a handbill.

full time, full-time

Hyphenate as a compound modifier (i.e., “He is a full-time professor who works in the laboratory full time.”)

FY

Spell out “fiscal year” in documents for a general or external audience. (i.e., Northeastern’s fiscal year 2018 (FY18) runs June 1, 2018 through July 31, 2019.)