Personal Data Change Process

If a Bethel employee needs to have their job title changed, they can do so through the following processes:

• Staff can contact their supervisor
• CAS faculty can contact Academic Affairs
• CAPS/SEM/GS faculty can contact Academic Operations

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.

1. Log into your Bethel email.
   
   
2. Click on the grid icon in the top right corner of the screen. A menu will expand.
   
   
3. Find and double-click on the Google Plus icon (a red circle with a white “G+” in the center).
   
   
4. Hover the cursor over the “home” button, located on the upper left side of the screen.
   
   
5. Click on Profile to navigate to your page.
   
   
6. Once on your profile page, click on your name. A window will appear.
   
   
7. Type in your desired name and press “save” to change your name on your Bethel email and Google products associated with your Bethel account.

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.