chair
Capitalize only when citing the full name of an endowed professorship.
Col. Ron Welch holds the Louis LeTellier Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The Campaign for The Citadel seeks to increase the number of endowed chairs at The Citadel.
Challenge Week
Period of training and indoctrination that introduces cadet recruits to the Fourth-Class System.
Formerly referred to as “Hell Week.”
class
Generally lower-cased, but capitalize specific Citadel classes in correspondence, recognition pieces, and other references.
The Citadel Class of 1973 presented a significant gift at Homecoming.
Each graduating Citadel class believes itself to be the last of the Old Corps.
Note: “Class” is a collective noun. Though it consists of many people, a class is singular in grammatical usage.
Despite a late start to its fundraising campaign, the Class of 1986 reached its goal.
college
The Citadel is a college, not a university or school. When referring to the institution as a college, the word should be lowercased. Even when referring specifically to The Citadel, do not capitalize. Treat the word “college” like any other noun that is not a proper name.
There are five schools in the college—the Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business, the Zucker Family School of Education, the School of Engineering, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Swain Family School of Science and Mathematics.
College Park
A multi-purpose athletics facility that serves as the practice field for The Citadel baseball program. It is located on Rutledge Avenue at the entrance to Hampton Park.
committee
Capitalize only when specifying a specific committee by name. Do not capitalize when referring to a specific body with only the word “committee.”
The Investment Committee meets two weeks prior to the full board.
The committee needs this time to prepare its investment results for presentation to the board.
company
Unit of affiliation; cadets are assigned to one of 20 companies housed in five battalions (or barracks).
- First Battalion (Murray Barracks)
- Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta Companies
- Second Battalion (Padgett-Thomas Barracks)
- Echo, F-Troop, Golf, Hotel, and Band Companies
- Third Battalion (Law Barracks)
- India, Kilo, Lima, and Mike Companies
- Fourth Battalion (Watts Barracks)
- November, Oscar, Romeo, and Tango Companies
- Fifth Battalion (Stevens Barracks)
- Palmetto Battery; Papa, Sierra, and Victor Companies
Capitalize only when referring to specific cadet companies:
- Each cadet company is assigned a TAC officer.
- The commander of Charlie Company is from Sumter, S.C.
core values
Honor, Duty, Respect
Corps
Capitalize “Corps” when used alone to refer to the entire unit of cadets.