OU Preferred Name Policy
The University recognizes that as a community many of its members use names other than their legal names to identify themselves. As long as the use of this different name is not for the purposes of misrepresentation or a legal name is required by University business, policy or legal need, the University acknowledges that a "preferred name" will be used wherever possible. A phased implementation process will be employed to accomplish this goal, a tentative schedule can be found on the UTS website
here.
Any student, active or retired faculty or staff member, or alumni may choose to identify themselves within the University's information systems with a preferred name in addition to the person's legal name. However, inappropriate use of the preferred name policy including, but not limited to, avoiding a legal obligation or misrepresentation and those preferred names that do not comply with university policies, and if applicable, the Student Code of Conduct may be denied. The University reserves the right to not accept a preferred name if it is deemed inappropriate, including a preferred name that is vulgar, offensive, fanciful, or creates confusion with another person.
