Your legal name and sex are the University's default data unless you actively make other selections, adding additional information to your record (e.g. chosen/professional name, gender designation, etc.).

If an affiliate has added a chosen/professional name, it is already included in many university systems, and can be used on Pioneer ID cards. (www.du.edu/registrar/records/preferredname.html)

With this additional gender designation and preferred pronoun self-identification information, we are working to better connect various other campus software systems so that your best name, pronouns and salutations are available from the central database, and are used consistently, accurately and respectfully by all affiliates. Ideally, every University interaction would be informed by the appropriate info: employees having over the phone and in-person conversations, and auto-generated message and online records would all use your correct names and pronouns. However, please note that we cannot yet guarantee that every communication (in person, online, in writing) will use these selections. This is a work in progress.

Additionally, the University will use aggregate information to understand campus demographics better, and to improve our acknowledgement of and services to our diversity of communities. This can include more robust support resources, enhanced training for service providers, more accurate reports, and potential advocacy to external reporting agencies for improving their systems.