A work group consisting of members of the Office of Admissions and Recruitment, the Office of the Registrar, the Graduate School, and the Division of Information Technology has drafted its recommendations on how to align the many campus tools that use student data with updated institutional guidelines on legal sex and gender.
The Office of the Registrar is excited to announce that students now have the option to select whether they want their name in use or their legal name on their diploma. Previously, only legal name was allowed. However, most importantly, it is one small but meaningful step for a more inclusive experience for our students, …
UW–Madison Preferred Name was implemented in 2013 to allow campus users to indicate a preferred first name, with options to suppress legal name in some systems. The 2013 policy also allowed a user to change legal middle name display to middle initial only. UW–Madison Preferred Name was implemented in 2013 to allow campus users to …