ABOVE: Dartmouth’s Class of 2023. Photo courtesy Dartmouth’s Facebook page.
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) | Dartmouth College has become the latest university to allow students to easily change their name or gender identity in directories, on identification cards and elsewhere across the Ivy League campus.
Transgender and non-binary students have been able to request IDs and directory listings that reflect their preferred names for more than a decade, but the new policy announced Sept. 11 allows them to log on to the college’s information system and make changes on their own. Chosen names also will be allowed to appear on transcripts and diplomas.
Campus Pride, a nonprofit organization that promotes LGBTQ-friendly learning environments, tracks such policies. It says most of the other seven Ivy League schools also provide students with a simple process to change their names or gender identities on university documents.
