{"id":65908,"date":"2024-02-20T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?page_id=65908"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:05:54","slug":"name-changes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/students\/current\/name-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Name Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Names are essential to a person\u2019s identity, dignity, and sense of self. During your time as a student at BUSSW, you may need to change how your name appears on various platforms, or you may undergo a legal name change. Updating your name in university records will help faculty, students, and staff across BU know how to address you. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/reg\/students\/name-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Get Started<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This process is handled by Boston University. If you have additional questions, please contact BU\u2019s Registrar Office at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:registrar@bu.edu\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">registrar@bu.edu<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Names are essential to a person\u2019s identity, dignity, and sense of self. During your time as a student at BUSSW, you may need to change how your name appears on various platforms, or you may undergo a legal name change. Updating your name in university records will help faculty, students, and staff across BU know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"featured_media":0,"parent":400,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65908"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68823,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65908\/revisions\/68823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}