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Business card design
- To maintain a consistent presentation that supports UT Austin's brand, Enrollment Management staff should ONLY use the UT Academic Business Card template.
Correct:
Incorrect:
Name
- The name you use professionally, including (if desired) any generational titles
- May include post-nominal letters to indicate an advanced degree; follow abbreviation styles published at utexas.edu/brand-guidelines/writing-style-guide/abbreviations
- Avoid commas before a generational title, but include them before other post-nominal letters
- Initials, when used, should be followed by a period to denote the abbreviation
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- Allison K Thompson
- Jan Tuttle, B.A.
- Tom Kelly, MSIS
- David Edward, III
Title
- Your official title - you may substitute a working title with permission from your immediate supervisor
- Do not include internal notations, e.g. Informational Writer III
- Avoid abbreviations when possible
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- Asst. Director of Admissions
- FAO II
Department Name
- Use the official name of the office or unit to which you report
- Do not shorten or abbreviate
- Capitalize appropriately
- Avoid use of any unnecessary article
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- Office of Enrollment Management and Student Success - do not include "Office" in front
- Office of admissions or The Office of Admissions or Texas Admissions
Secondary Department Name
- Use only for recognized secondary departments, not for teams, committees or affinity groups
- Avoid abbreviations and unnecessary articles
- Not required when there is no appropriate secondary department name.
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- The Dallas Admissions Center
- AIS
Address
- On-Campus Staff: Use Address listed in Directory with your office Mail Code (see below)
- NOTE for ADMISSIONS STAFF ONLY - use P.O. Box 8058
- Off-Campus Staff: Use the mailing address of your center or primary office
- When possible, include a nine-digit ZIP code
- Abbreviate in accordance with the guidelines at utexas.edu/brand-guidelines/writing-style-guide/abbreviations
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- P.O. Box 8058, M0700
Austin, TX 78713-8058 - 10801 Gateway Boulevard West, Suite 300
El Paso, TX 79935-4924
Office Phone
- Include all 10 digits, separated as appropriate by hyphens
- Do not use periods or parentheses
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- 512.555.5555
- (512) 555-5555
Fax Number
- Inclusion is optional
- If listed, format as above
Cellular Phone
- Inclusion is optional
- If listed, format as above
Email Address
- Your official university email address
- Do not include capital letters
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Website
- Use your unit's website address - for example: admissions.utexas.edu
- You may also include the university main website: utexas.edu
- Avoid capital letters
- Do not include http:// or www. notations
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Spanish-Speaker Notation – “Hablo español.”
- Include with permission of your immediate supervisor and if you are comfortable conversing in Spanish
- Because the standard business card templates do not include a field for this information, add to the title field, separated by a pipe character
- Capitalize and punctuate appropriately
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