FERPA
Student Rights Under the Family Educational Rights and privacy Act (FERPA)
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy act of 1974 is a federal law designed to protect the privacy of current and former students' educational records and afford students certain rights with respect to their education records.
学生权利通知书
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords students certain rights with respect to their education records. 它们是:
- The right to inspect and review the student's education records within 45 days of the day EMU receives a request for access.
Students should submit to 澳门最正规网网站登录's (EMU) 记录和注册办公室 written requests that identify the record(s) they wish to inspect. A university official will make arrangements for access and notify the student of the time and place where the records may be inspected. If the records are not maintained by the university official to whom the request was submitted, that official shall advise the student of the correct official to whom the request should be addressed.
- The right to request the amendment of the student's education records that the student believes are inaccurate or misleading.
Students may ask the university to amend a record that they believe is inaccurate or misleading. They should write the university official responsible for the record, clearly identify the part of the record they want changed, 并说明为什么它不准确或具有误导性. If the university decides not to amend the record as requested by the student, the university will notify the student of the decision and advise the student of his or her right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the student when notified of the right to a hearing.
- The right to consent to disclosures of personally identifiable information contained in the student's education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent.
One exception that permits disclosure without consent is disclosure to school officials with legitimate education interests. A school official is a person employed by EMU in an administrative, 监督, 学术或研究, or support staff position (including law enforcement unit personnel and health staff); a person or company with whom EMU has contracted (such as an attorney, auditor or collection agent); a person serving on the Board of Regents; or a student serving on an official committee, 比如纪律委员会或申诉委员会, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks.
A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibility.
要求, the university discloses education records without consent to officials of another school in which a student seeks or intends to enroll. 大学可以, 未经学生允许, release certain information to parents or guardians of students under the age of 21 found responsible for violating any law, rule or university policy pertaining to drugs or alcohol.
Right to Non-Disclosure of Public or Directory Information
- EMU has designated the following items as directory information and these items may be included in publications or disclosed upon request without consent: the student's name; electronic-mail address; place of birth; enrollment status (full-time or part-time, 但不包括学分数), major field of study; participation in recognized activities and sports; weight and height of members of athletic teams; dates of attendance; degrees, 获得的荣誉和奖励(包括, 但不限于, the 优秀学生名单); candidacy for degree, and the most recent previous educational agency or institution attended by the student.
- EMU reserves the right to make directory information public unless a student's written objection (specifying the category of information not to be made public without prior consent) is filed at the 记录和注册办公室 within 14 days after each term begins.
目录排除
- Students who do not want to be included in the annual EMU Student Directory or the online directory should complete a 目录排除表格[PDF] and return it to the 记录及注册 Office, 303 Pierce Hall. The forms must be turned in by September 15 to be excluded from that academic year's printed directory and all subsequent directories.
- 向美国政府提出申诉的权利.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by EMU to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The name and address of the office that administers FERPA is: Family Policy Compliance Office U.S. 教育部马里兰大道400号. SW Washington DC 20202-4605 To Request that directory information remain confidential. 填妥并交回保密申请表.