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Comment: Updated conventions for chair and first year students

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Stylistic Conventions

MIT Preferences

  • Chair (not chairman, chairwoman)
  • Cochair, coauthor (MIT preference)
  • The Institute (referring to MIT)
  • The Corporation (referring to the MIT Corporation)
  • Vice president - (no hyphen) - MIT’s preference
  • First year (not freshman)
  • To designate degree from MIT:  name (comma) MIT (no comma) full year: Jane Smith, MIT 1980

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