3.0 Stevens-Specific Content

This is the official Stevens boilerplate, last updated in December 2023. It may not be edited.

Guidance: Use the longest version that is practical for a piece. Typically we try to include the full version wherever possible. Deploy the medium or short versions on certain web pages, brief media releases or graphical pieces with constrained space.

Full Version (215 words)

Stevens Institute of Technology is a premier, private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Since its founding in 1870, technological innovation and entrepreneurship have been the hallmarks of Stevens’ education and research. Within the university’s four schools, Stevens prepares its more than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students for an increasingly complex and technology-centric world. Our exceptional students collaborate closely with world-class faculty in an interdisciplinary, student-centric, entrepreneurial environment, readying them to fuel the innovation economy. Academic and research programs spanning business, computing, engineering and the arts expand the frontiers of science and leverage technology to confront the most challenging problems of our time. Stevens is home to a National Center of Excellence — the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) — as well as leading-edge scholarship and research centers in disciplines such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and cybersecurity, including the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI); biomedical engineering, healthcare and life sciences; complex systems and networks; data science and information systems; financial systems and technologies, including the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT); and resilience and sustainability. Stevens is consistently ranked among the nation’s leaders in ROI and career services, and is in the top 1% nationally of colleges with
the highest-paid graduates.

Medium Version (135 words)

Stevens Institute of Technology is a premier, private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Since its founding in 1870, technological innovation and entrepreneurship have been the hallmarks of Stevens’ education and research. Within the university’s four schools, Stevens prepares its more than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students for an increasingly complex and technology-centric world. Our exceptional students collaborate closely with world-class faculty in an interdisciplinary, student-centric, entrepreneurial environment, readying them to fuel the innovation economy. Academic and research programs spanning finance, computing, engineering and the arts expand the frontiers of science and leverage technology to confront the most challenging problems of our time. Stevens is consistently ranked among the nation’s leaders in ROI and career services and is in the top 1% nationally of colleges with the highest-paid graduates.

Short Version (70 words)

Stevens Institute of Technology is a premier, private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Stevens prepares its more than 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students for an increasingly complex and technology-centric world, leveraging finance, computing, engineering and the arts to confront the most challenging problems of our time with innovative teaching and research. The university is in the top 1% nationally of colleges with the highest-paid graduates.

For guidance on official fonts, colors, brand marks, logos and all other design issues, consult the Stevens Visual Identity Guide online at www.stevens.edu/brandguide.

• 1 Castle Point Terrace (must include the street number)

• First in Class (always capitalize first and last words)

• Inspired by Humanity, Powered by Technology™

• The Innovation University® ((while no longer a tagline for the university, if used it should be in italics with the registered
  trademark symbol))

• Stevens Alumni Association / SAA / the Alumni Association (never "the Alumni office")

• StevensOnline (2 capital letters, no spaces)

University rankings and accomplishments change frequently. For the very latest data, refer to: www.stevens.edu/about-stevens/rankings-and-recognition.

Commonly used terms, both former and current:

• first-year student (not freshman)

• healthcare (one word in all Stevens uses)

• scholar-athlete, student-athlete (always hyphenate)

Spring 2022, Fall 2023: We capitalize the academic semesters and Summer Session as proper nouns when referring to a specific semester. In cases where it refers to fall or spring semester in general, lowercase is used.

• The Spring 2023 semester will begin on Jan. 18.

• Commencement ceremonies take place at the end of the spring semester.

Correct names and spacing of commonly used technology terms:

• 3D (not 3-D)

• AI (no periods)

• autonomous vehicles, semi-autonomous vehicles, self-driving cars (do NOT use the term "driverless cars" unless there
  are never passengers in the vehicles discussed)

• COVID-19 (the disease)

• cybersecurity, cyberterrorism, cybercafe

• livestream, livestreaming (use no hyphen)

• nanotech

• nanotechnology

• the novel coronavirus (the virus that causes the disease)

• STEM (no periods; spell out "science, technology, engineering and mathematics" on first use except in headlines)

• virtual reality, augmented reality (VR is acceptable as abbreviation on second reference for virtual reality and AR is acceptable as a second reference for augmented reality)