FERPA Information
The faculty, staff and administrators of 91猫先生 keep a number of education records in order to facilitate the educational success of students.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), also known as the Buckley Amendment, is a federal law regarding the privacy of these student education records. This website is designed to assist students, faculty, staff and administrators in understanding FERPA rights and the need for compliance.
What is the purpose of FERPA?
FERPA is meant to protect personally identifiable information contained in educational聽records. It also provides the rights for students to access the information, seek to聽correct it when needed, and to consent to its disclosure. Please see the 笔谤颈惫补肠测听骋濒辞蝉蝉补谤测 for a detailed description of what is and is not considered an education record.
Who is Protected Under FERPA?
The rights under FERPA apply to eligible students. An eligible student is an individual聽who is, or has been, in attendance at 91猫先生. This includes all degree-seeking as well as non-degree-seeking students. Student educational records are聽protected under FERPA beginning with day one of classes until an eligible student鈥檚
death.
Do Parents Have Rights
While their student is in elementary, middle, and high school FERPA rights belong to聽the parents; however, the rights transfer to the student when they turn 18 or when they聽attend a postsecondary institution, whichever comes first. Information protected by聽FERPA will not be released to parents unless Adams State has written permission to release聽such information to them.
Disclosure of Education Records
Under FERPA, a school may not generally disclose personally identifiable information聽from a student鈥檚 education record to a third party unless the student has provided聽written consent. However, there are a number exceptions. One exception is to the聽release of information that has been appropriately designated as directory information.聽For other exceptions please see the Disclosure of Student Records section of this聽website.
FERPA Training
New employees will be assigned online FERPA training at the time that they begin their employment with Adams State.
All other university employees will be assigned online FERPA training on a yearly聽basis. The campus also benefits from periodic FERPA training delivered via email (A聽FERPA Moment, weekly), bookmarks with important dates and FERPA tidbits聽(beginning of fall semester), FERPA Annual Notification (sent via email to all students)聽and departmental training upon request.
