家庭教育权利和隐私法| FERPA

目录信息

Lake Erie College may release directory information in accordance with the provisions of the law as defined in 第九条. Directory information is defined as the following relating to a student: name, address, 电话号码, 出生日期和地点, 学术专业, 出席日期, 学位获得, 荣誉, 奖, 奖学金, 荣誉社团和院长名单, 官方认可的活动或运动, 以及运动员的身高和体重. Students have the right to request Lake Erie College to withhold any or all information designated as directory information. Written request to withhold specific information must be submitted to the 注册商 within two weeks after the first day of class of the first semester as a student. 申请将被尊重一年. Authorization to withhold information for successive years must be filed annually with the 注册商.

教育记录和FERPA

Educational records at Lake Erie College are those student records that are kept in the offices of the 注册商, 学生生活, 招生, 金融援助, 建议, Academic Affairs and in the offices housing records of individual academic programs and advisors.

The 家庭教育权利和隐私法 (FERPA) of 1974 provides access for students to their educational records; permits them to challenge the accuracy of information in those records and limits the release of such information without their explicit consent. Lake Erie College makes available to students those records that students are entitled to review. The College affirms the importance of the confidentiality of student educational records.

未经学生书面同意, no unauthorized persons will have access to nor will the College disclose information from any student’s educational records other than that, 哪些被归类为目录信息. The exception to this would be persons or organizations providing student financial aid, 认可机构履行其认可职责, 政府代表, persons acting in compliance with a judicial order and persons in an emergency acting to protect the health or safety of a student. 上述例外情况是法律允许的.

伊利湖学院, only College personnel acting in the students’ educational interest and within the limitation of their “need to know” are allowed access to students’ educational records.

教育记录不包括:教学记录, administrative and educational personnel that are the sole possession of the maker and are not accessible or revealed to any individual except a temporary substitute; student health and personal counseling records; health records may be reviewed by physicians of the student’s choosing; student employment records and alumni records.

Students may not inspect financial information submitted by their parents or confidential letters and recommendations associated with admissions, 就业或荣誉. The College will permit access only to that part of the record that pertains to the student requesting access. Lake Erie College does not permit access to confidential letters and recommendations placed in a student file prior to January 1, 1975. Consent to Release Education Records forms are available in the 注册商’s Office.

学生权利通知书

Educational records containing personally identifiable information are confidential and will not be released to third persons, 除非法律授权.

截至2012年1月3日，美国财政部已宣布.S. Department of Education's FERPA regulations expand the circumstances under which your education records and personally identifiable information (PII) contained in such records — including your Social Security Number, grades or other private information — may be accessed without your consent.

首先，美国.S. 美国总审计长.S. 司法部长，美国.S. Secretary of Education or state and local education authorities ("Federal and State Authorities") may allow access to your records and PII without your consent to any third party designated by a Federal or State Authority to evaluate a federal- or state-supported education program. The evaluation may relate to any program that is "principally engaged in the provision of education,比如幼儿教育和职业培训, as well as any program that is administered by an education agency or institution.

第二个, Federal and State Authorities may allow access to your education records and PII without your consent to researchers performing certain types of studies, 在某些情况下，即使我们反对或不要求进行此类研究. Federal and State Authorities must obtain certain use-restriction and data security promises from the entities that they authorize to receive your PII, 但当局不需要对这些实体保持直接控制.

除了, 与全州纵向数据系统有关, 国家当局可以收取, 编译, permanently retain and share without your consent PII from your education records, and they may track your participation in education and other programs by linking such PII to other personal information about you that they obtain from other Federal or State data sources, 包括劳动力发展, 失业保险, 儿童福利, 少年司法, 兵役和移民学生档案系统. 学生及家长, 如果依赖于国内税收的目的, have a right (with certain exceptions) to inspect educational records as defined by the applicable statute. 查阅教育记录的申请应向注册主任提出. 如果学生认为他们的教育记录不准确, 他们有权就案情举行听证会以纠正这些记录. 如果听证结果也驳回了请求, students have the right to file a letter of rebuttal that will be maintained as a permanent part of the educational record. Students have the right to file complaints concerning failure by Lake Erie College to comply with the Acts Office, U.S. 卫生署, 教育及福利, 独立大道200号, SW, 526房间- e, 华盛顿, DC 20201. For further details concerning rights under the law, students should consult the 注册商.