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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

FERPA - True-False Quiz

 

  1. The registrar may deny the request of a former student who has moved out of state for copies of his or her records if the student owes money to the institution.

 2. In cases of divorce, a registrar may only disclose a dependent student's education records to the parent who claims the student as a dependent for income tax purposes.

 3. A student's grades can be posted outside a classroom only if an identifier such as the student's social security number and not his or her name is used.

 4. An institution may not provide to an individual confidential information from his or her spouse's financial aid records without the spouse's prior written consent.

  5. A student who has been denied admission to another component of a university that he or she is attending, such as the law school, does not have the right to inspect his or her application or other records related to the decision.

  6. An institution which designates certain types of information as "directory information" must offer a student the opportunity to decline to have any or all of those types of information about the student so designated.

  7. A school must honor a former student's request not to release directory information, even if the student did not object to release of such information the last semester he or she attended the institution.

  8. The registrar can release information about a student without the student's written consent upon receipt of a subpoena only if a reasonable effort is made to notify the student in advance of compliance.

 9. A school must afford a student an opportunity for a FERPA hearing within 45 days of the student's request.

 10. Former students do not have the right to seek to amend their education records.


 


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