Preferred First Name – System Usage

  • The chart below shows where preferred first name (PFN) is currently being utilized, planned for in the future, and which areas are unable to utilize due to state or federal reporting requirements.
  • Please check back often as this will be updated as new systems are added/updated.
 Currently using PFN Plan to use PFN in future Will not use PFN3
49er ID card1Archibus (Facilities Management System)Bursar/Student accounts
Academic PetitionBanner Self Service
     – Class Rosters
     – Grade Submission
     – Advisee Reports
Campus Reporting (Some reporting retains legal first name externally.)
Advising Transcript (in Self-Service Banner)Canvas (Learning Management System)
     – Grade Submission
     – Advisee Reports
Employee Benefits
Appeals System (satisfactory academic progress & academic suspension appeals)Niner Connection (Alumni Online Community)Enrollment Verifications
Campus Labs (course evals)NinerTalent (PeopleAdmin) Performance Management and Position ManagementFinancial Aid
Campus Reporting (most have been updated, but this is ongoing)Unofficial TranscriptsInternational Student Visa Status
Canvas (Learning Management System)
     – Class Rosters
VZ (SOAR RSVP system)Official Transcripts
Career Center Systems Payroll
Chancellor’s & Dean’s List (online listing and physical notifications) Starting Fall 2021 Student Health Insurance
Connect (Advising System)  
DegreeWorks (Degree Audit)2  
Diploma  
Email display name/alias (Gmail)4  
Graduate Admissions Application  
Hire-A-Niner (student employment)  
Housing & Residence Life (assignments/rosters)  
Kronos WorkForce Timekeeping  
MobileOrder App (campus restaurants)  
My Charlotte  
Niner Engage (student orgs)  
NinerScholars (email & award correspondence)  
NinerTalent Employment Application  
Online People Finder  
Qualtrics (survey & analysis tool)  
Salesforce (Niner Central)  
Undergraduate Admissions Application  
Zoom Profile (web conferencing)  

49er ID card:  Please be aware that if you have plans to use your 49er ID card for various legal, immigration, employment or voting purposes, the name listed on your 49er ID card may not match records maintained by other agencies outside of Charlotte.
2  Degree Audit: Shown when faculty, staff and advisors (not students) search for a student’s audit. The search will only consider PFN, if it exists. Finding the student using the legal first name does not work. There is currently no functionality to support searching by both the preferred name and the legal name.
3  While the official record and reporting must use legal first name, related communications on campus could utilize preferred first name, if it exists.
4  Google caches names.  While Charlotte might reflect a new preferred first name, email recipients may maintain a cached version of the former first name, if a prior contact was made before the change.  Therefore, each recipient has to update their own contact list to reflect the new name.