Sometimes faculty and staff find themselves in situations that aren't clearly defined by FERPA, the federal law that protects student education records. For example, you may have wondered: Can an ...

FERPA is the acronym for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Office the Registrar offers two delivery methods for FERPA training. The training is designed ...

Student data and student educational record data must be properly secured and safeguarded. The following provides resources and procedures regarding the maintenance and confidentiality of student ...

The deadline is approaching for Miami University staff to complete Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) training to help employees safeguard student ...

In the aftermath of several high-profile campus security incidents that have occurred in the past decade, questions concerning access to student records have become a focal point for many university ...

In a workshop at the Consortium for School Networking’s annual conference in Seattle this month, privacy expert Ross Lemke reframed student data as “information about children” to help school tech ...

FERPA’s enforcement mechanism is inadequate. FERPA’s primary penalty—in the words of Microsoft’s Director of Education Policy and Programs Allyson Knox—is “all or nothing.” If schools violate FERPA, ...

In recent months, a drumbeat of criticism has sounded with respect to how colleges apply the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, better known as Ferpa ...