Submitting a "Chosen Name" will replace your Legal First Name in the University Search directory and most systems, except those systems that require the use of Legal First Name. Submitting a “Directory Listing Name” will display this additional name in brackets in the University Search directory, along with displaying your Legal Name or Chosen Name (if one was submitted).

Although employees/Students are generally free to determine the names they wish to be known by, inappropriate use of the name change process (including but not limited to avoiding a legal obligation or misrepresentation) may be cause for removal. Your chosen first name must be a name you truly use to identify yourself. The university will not accept a chosen first name that is vulgar or offensive, obscene, fanciful, contains profanity, discriminatory language, or sexually suggestive words, or creates confusion with another person.