University Colleges
- Term only to be used in undergraduate recruitment materials.
- See Affiliated and Federated Institutions of Waterloo and conventions for recruitment materials.
university-wide (adjective, hyphen), university wide (adverb, two words)
Note: Capitalize University when referring to Waterloo.
username (one word, not user ID or userid)
vice-president (hyphen)
viewbook (one word)
Visitors Centre (no apostrophe)
Vivek (Dr. Vivek Goel, pronounced VEE’-vek go-EL’)
Warrior Field (not pluralized)
WatCard (capital “w” and capital “c”)
Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (formerly the Aboriginal Education Centre)
WaterlooWorks (both "w"s are capitalized)
web page (two words)
website (one word)
well-being (hyphen)
Wilfrid Laurier University
All style guide questions should be sent to brandstandards@wlu.ca.
- Use Wilfrid Laurier University on first reference only.
- On subsequent reference, use Laurier when referring to the university (not use WLU or Wilfrid Laurier).
- Use Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
- Waterloo and Brantford are referred to as campuses: either Laurier’s Waterloo campus or Laurier Waterloo, and Laurier’s Brantford campus or Laurier Brantford. Never refer to Waterloo as the “main” campus.
- Kitchener is referred to as the Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work in Kitchener, the Social Work faculty in Kitchener or Laurier’s Kitchener location.
- Toronto is referred to as Laurier Toronto or Laurier’s Toronto office.
Workday (capitalize)
Refers to the HR system.
work term (noun, two words), work-term (adjective, hyphen)
