Updating Chosen Name and Gender Identity at Lehigh
This page provides information on how and where you can update your legal name, chosen name, and gender identity. Please note, that not all University systems, databases, and processes may be able to display a chosen name. The University continues to explore ways to allow those systems to display chosen names and will update this policy as those changes occur.
In addition, because legal names will still be contained in the University’s systems, they may appear in an unexpected context. As the University utilizes a number of systems, the timeframe in which changes can or may be updated within those systems may differ.
- 1 Where to start...
- 2 Current Systems that Display Chosen Name
- 2.1 Email
- 2.2 Faculty Name in Catalog
- 2.3 Lehigh ID card
- 2.4 On-Campus Housing Rosters
- 2.5 Course Site or Moodle
- 2.6 Diplomas
- 2.7 Faculty Name in Course Evaluation Forms
- 2.8 Instructor Name in Course Roster (Registration)
- 2.9 Self-Service Banner 9 (accessed by clicking "Banner" at connect.lehigh.edu)
- 2.10 Interfolio (used by faculty members for PAR as well as Promotion, Tenure, and Reappointment)
- 2.11 PyraMed
- 2.12 Mail Center
- 2.13 Central Receiving
- 3 Process for Changing Legal Name
- 4 Process for Updating Gender Identity
- 5 Process for Updating Personal Pronouns
Where to start...
To start the process of identifying your chosen name, submit your information via go.lehigh.edu/UpdateChosenName.
Chosen Name & Gender Identity Policies
To review the official policies, please go to:
Chosen Name Policy at go.lehigh.edu/chosennamepolicy
Gender Identity Policy at go.lehigh.edu/genderidentitypolicy
For more help:
If your chosen name or legal name is not displaying where you expect it to based on the information above, please submit an LTS Help Request by selecting “Enterprise Software Help” and choosing your associated area.