Editorial Style Guide - M

major

A student’s primary area of study.

Maxient

Online tool for campus safety and security to use for reporting misconduct and on-campus incidents.

Monahan Learning Center

Abbreviation is MLC (no periods). On-campus resource center located in the Knowles Hall Library, that provides workshops and assistance with study skills, learning strategies, tutoring, writing assistance, college-prep coursework in math, reading and writing and much more. Formerly called the Comprehensive Learning Center (CLC).

money

Use the dollar sign (e.g., $10, $1,000, $90,000 [not $90 thousand]). Use exact figures up to $1 million. On figures more than $1 million, use: a decimal (e.g., $2.7 million, $6.28 billion). With ranges of amounts, don’t drop designators such as million (i.e., $8 million to $10 million.