In some cases, faculty and staff may want to use a last name in their University correspondence that is different from their legal last name. This type of issue will be treated as an exception to the normal Name in Use policy.

Example: Buckingham Badger is a researcher at UW-Madison. When he first began publishing research, this is the name he used in those publications. Buckingham is now married, and he decided to change his last name to include his wife's given name, Marten, so his legal name is now Buckingham Badger-Marten. However, he continued to use the same name (Buckingham Badger) as his Microsoft 365 display name, so that he could be correctly identified in his professional correspondence.

If you have a situation similar to the one described above, please follow the instructions here to edit your Name in Use (Preferred Name) in Workday.