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Determine if the usage is a formal name. If so, uppercase. If not, lowercase.

• departments and programs – Department of Biology is the formal name; biology department is the reference. Office of Marketing and Communications is the formal name; marketing and communications office is the reference. However, if any of the words for a department or program are formal names, capitalize only those words, but do not capitalize the word program or department, e.g., English department.
• job titles – Capitalize and spell out when the title is used in its formal sense before the name, i.e., Associate Professor of Computer Sciences Butch T. Cougar has published his research on Web use. Preferred use is to put the title after the name and use lower case, i.e., Butch T. Cougar, associate professor of computer sciences, has published his research.
• college – Clark College is the formal name; college is a reference: Beverly works at Clark College. She likes working at the college.
• publications – Chicago Manual of Style, but the manual; The Columbian, but the newspaper; Journal of Neuroscience, but the journal.