I have worked for a university as well, and multiple logos I designed for the small grant that I worked for were shot down for misusing the official logo someho

I have worked for a university as well, and multiple logos I designed for the small grant that I worked for were shot down for misusing the official logo somehow. The review process seemed very politicized, subjective, and opaque. It would have been nice to have detailed guidelines (See dcurtis' link) that spelled everything out. I came away with, "your logo is round and so is our official logo - this can't work, sorry."