UCPath will be the source system by which employees (faculty, staff, and student employees), affiliates, or volunteers can change their legal name and lived nameIf you currently use a name that is different than your legal first, legal middle, and/or legal last name in the Directory, your email, or other campus system, it will need to be updated in the...
UCPath only displays the lived first and last name throughout the system. Lived middle name is only visible and displayed in your personal information summary within the Edit Legal Name/Name page. Although your lived middle name will not be visible on the screens within UCPath, that information will be sent downstream to campus (e.g., Campus Directory and bMail).
Some of the following pages are only visible to employees, some that are visible to location transactions, and some pages that are visible only to UCPath Center may still show legal name.
UCPath identifies legal name fields with the label ‘Legal’ (ex. Legal Name, Legal Last Name, etc.). Fields containing lived name information are simply identified as Name (without the ‘Legal’ prefix) - for example: Name, Last Name.
The Campus Directory pulls information from the Name fields in UCPath, which includes your Lived First, Middle, and Last Name. Lived Name is the name you commonly use and may differ from your legal first, middle, or last name. If you do not commonly use your middle name in communications, you will need to update your lived name in UCPath to remove it from downstream systems.
If you have not added a lived name in UCPath, your Legal Name fields were...
