FERPA Basics
The acronym for the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
What is FERPA?
Information directly related to a student and maintained by the institution or a party representing the institution.
What are educational records.
In order to release a student's educational record, the school must first obtain?
The students written consent?
Grades posted on a faculty office door.
What is a PROHIBITED activity ?
The Department of Education created FERPA in this year as a protection for students.
What is 1974?
The form that all student workers and volunteers should sign before beginning work at the college.
What is a confidentiality form?
Includes information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity either directly or indirectly through linkages with other information.
What is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)?
Under FERPA, all students have the right to do this to their educational records at any time.
What is the right to inspect and review?
T/F Records that are directly related to a student and are maintained by the school are educational records?
What is TRUE
The only time that a college employee, or student worker should access students information?
What is With a 'legitimate educational interest' ?
The number of times the Department of Education requires that a FERPA notification be sent to the college community.
What is a minimum of one time per year (or annually)?
Information defined by the institution that can be released to anyone without permission of the student.
What is directory information?
Under FERPA, colleges must identify a list of directory information. Students have this particular ability with regard to directory info . . .
What is the right to restrict the school from releasing any directory information about them?
A form that students need to complete to release information to a third party (potentially their parents).
What is a consent to release form?
The amount of money the college can charge for releasing educational information to students.
What is none?
What is The Buckley Amendent?
Grade reports, transcripts, and disciplinary files are all examples of this.
What are educational records?
What students may do if it appears that there is misleading or inaccurate information in some part of their educational records?
What is amend their education record?
The Federal Government may withdraw what from public schools should they violate FERPA?
What is Federal Funds?
This act allows an institution to release data to each branch of the military once each term, if the student is at least 17, and registered in one credit hour.
What is the Solomon Act?
A violation of FERPA guidelines at an institution may result in the removal of this very necessary thing.
What is federal funding.
The population of individuals at the college to whom FERPA applies.
What is everyone? (Employees and students)
FERPA ends for a student upon this tragic, but inevitable for all, event.
What is upon their death?
Information not normally considered a violation of a persons privacy is called ?
What is Directory Information?
T/F - Schools may disclose educational records without consent of the student if they are seeking to enroll at another school.
What is true?