{"id":104,"date":"2019-06-04T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:23:11","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/guidelines\/editorial-style\/alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u201calumni\u201d refers collectively to male and female graduates, or to a group of all-male graduates, and is plural. \u201cAlumnae\u201d refers to a group of women graduates and is plural. \u201cAlumna\u201d refers to a single female alum, and \u201calumnus\u201d is a single male alum. The terms \u201calum\u201d (singular, not gender specific) and \u201calums\u201d (plural, not gender specific) are more informal and are acceptable, particularly when the gender is unknown.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Indicate a BU graduate\u2019s school or college and class year in parentheses after the name, with the acronym and year abbreviation run together without a space:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>Sandra Caplan (CFA\u201960)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Lehan (CFA\u201960,\u201963)<\/li>\n<li>George Olson (CAS\u201958, Questrom\u201959)<\/li>\n<li>Mark Perkins (CAS\u201999, COM\u201907)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note the direction in which the apostrophe faces. (A complete list of school\/college abbreviations is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/guidelines\/editorial-style\/abbreviations\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If the alum received two degrees from a school or college, don\u2019t repeat the abbreviated name and there is no space between the comma and the second apostrophe:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>Charles Smith (ENG\u201911,\u201913)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Note that we include the years for the College of General Studies (CGS), which is a two-year, non-degree\u2013granting program:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>Joan Jett (CGS\u201982, CFA\u201984)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In the context of a specific school, you may also write:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>COM Class of 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note the capitalization of \u201cClass.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Alumni who graduated from BU School of Education or from Wheelock College prior to the June 1, 2018 merger will all be designated with the abbreviation Wheelock and their year (e.g., Wheelock\u201909). After June 1, 2018, all alumni (including legacy Wheelock College, legacy BU School of Education, and newly minted Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development in future years) will be referred to as alumni of Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development, abbreviated as Wheelock\u2019XX.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Questrom School of Business: when identifying individual alumni of the Questrom School of Business (formerly the School of Management), the name Questrom replaces SMG or GSM or CBA.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>Kenneth J. Feld (Questrom\u201970, Hon.\u201924)<\/li>\n<li>Robert A. Knox (CAS\u201974, Questrom\u201975, Hon.\u201917)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Notable alums and their correct schools\/years:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"editorial-sample\">\n<li>Uzo Aduba (CFA\u201905)<\/li>\n<li>Jason Alexander (CFA\u201981, Hon.\u201995)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Chiklis (CFA\u201985)<\/li>\n<li>Geena Davis (CFA\u201979, Hon.\u201999)<\/li>\n<li>Ha Jin (GRS\u201994)<\/li>\n<li>Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS\u201955, Hon.\u201959)<\/li>\n<li>Lu Lingzi (GRS\u201913)<\/li>\n<li>Hugo Shong (COM\u201987, GRS\u201990)<\/li>\n<li>Marisa Tomei (CFA\u201986, Hon.\u201902)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u201calumni\u201d refers collectively to male and female graduates, or to a group of all-male graduates, and is plural. \u201cAlumnae\u201d refers to a group of women graduates and is plural. \u201cAlumna\u201d refers to a single female alum, and \u201calumnus\u201d is a single male alum. The terms \u201calum\u201d (singular, not gender specific) and \u201calums\u201d (plural, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14430,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104\/revisions\/2681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/brand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}