Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FERPA is the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act that sets forth requirements regarding the privacy of student records. FERPA governs:
- the release of student education records maintained by the University and
- access to these records.
Students are afforded certain rights concerning their education records, including:
- the right to inspect and review the education records;
- the right to seek to have the records amended; and
- the right to have some control over the disclosure of the information from the records.