Personal data, such as your name, is stored in Banner and is displayed across many platform, such as directory, Gmail, and MyBethel. Bethel community members who would like to change their name have many options upon name change. The purpose of this article is to guide users through the name change process and let users know the different resources available to them. The article will be broken into the following sections: personal data change, email alias change, and username change. Please keep in mind that any update to Banner can take up to 48 hours to sync across all mediums.
SummaryIf and when a Bethel community member would like to change their name or address in our database, there are a few different routes to take. These routes are determined by the current role with Bethel.
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If a Bethel employee needs to have their job title changed, they can do so through the following processes:
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All Bethel community members have an email that is linked to their account taking the format of username@bethel.edu (E.G. abc12345@bethel.edu). Email alias options are available to allow your email to more accurately reflect your name. These options can take several forms using a combination of first name, middle name, last name, and initials. If you would like to create or update your email alias, please reference Changing My Bethel Email Address. Please note that if you are looking to change your email alias after a name change, you need to deactivate your current email alias before reserving a new alias. Also note that IAM may take up to 24 hours to sync the data after a name change to provide alias options that include any new data. |
If another user has emailed you prior to your name change, that user may have saved your contact information. That user will need to manually delete you from their contacts for Google to update the contact information. If the name did not update in your Google profile, it is possible to override the Google+ profile.
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Bethel community members have the option of changing their Bethel username to more accurately reflect their current name. This is done in very rare circumstances. The username will take the current username format (E.G. abc12345). All emails, all data on BSP-NAS, and all data in the Google Drive will be unaccessible, unless previously stored. The process may take up to 3 weeks to fulfill. This process will effectively create a new person in our system; much of any previous access will need to be manually restored. This will be done on a as needed process. This process will only affect Bethel systems that use your current username and password. This will not change any logins not managed by Bethel IT. There may be other side effects of creating a new username as well. |