Guidelines on Student Legal and Preferred Name Change Requests

Introduction

This guideline provides information regarding the creation of new student email aliases in support of legal and preferred name changes; it also provides clarity on the immutability of network usernames.

Email Aliases

When requested, ITS will create new @mymail.pomona.edu email aliases for students in support of legal name changes, and in support of preferred names that have been recorded with the Registrar's Office.

The mail alias will reflect the initials of the preferred name, and contain the same year designator as the original email address.
This new email alias will appear as the student's primary email address in Pomona College's Global Address List.
The new email alias will have the same duration as the original email address (currently lifetime), and both email addresses (the new alias and the original email account) will route email to the student's original mymail account.
The request should come to the ITS service desk from the Registrar's Office.

Network Usernames

Currently, ITS is not able to support a change to network usernames. The Pomona College usernames issued to students at matriculation are immutable in the current technology landscape. In other words, the username that a student uses to log into Pomona College's applications cannot be changed once created by ITS.

NOTE: To change your display name on Pomona College information systems, please click here.