Capitalizations of Colleges, Divisions, Departments, Sections and Centers

Full proper names of colleges, divisions, departments, sections and centers always are capitalized. But informal or generic references to a college, division, department, section or center (when the “of” in the title is dropped) are not capitalized.

Example: The Department of Medicine, the College of Pharmacy, the Section of Infectious Diseases and the Sarver Heart Center provide funding.
Example: The medicine department, the pharmacy college, the infectious diseases section and the arthritis center provide funding.