Question: A student's parent calls asking how the student is doing in class. Can you release this information? Answer
Question: You receive a call from a recruiting firm asking for names and campus addresses of students with a GPA of 3.0 or better. They say they have good job information for these students. Can you help these students get jobs by giving out this information? Answer
Question: A faculty member routinely leaves graded exams and graded coursework in a box outside her office door for students to pick up at their convenience. Students are identified by their names and W numbers. Is this practice a violation of FERPA? Answer
Question: You receive a telephone call from the local police department indicating that the police are trying to determine whether a particular student was in attendance on a specific day. Because the police are in the middle of an investigation, are you allowed to give them this information? Answer
Question: You receive a frantic telephone call from an individual who says that he is a student's father and he must get in touch with her immediately because of a family emergency. Can you tell him when and where her next class is today? Answer
Question: A student in the College of Business has applied for a part-time job in your spouse's accounting firm. Does a legitimate educational interest exist that would allow you to access the student's educational records to verify his academic standing and disclose it to your spouse's firm? Answer
Question: A person comes to the College of Arts and Sciences with a letter containing a signature that gives consent to release the student's transcript. Do you give the transcript to that person? Answer
Question: An unauthorized person retrieves personally identifiable information about students from an unattended computer screen. Does FERPA apply to information stored on a computer database? Answer
Question: A student has asked you to write a letter of recommendation for him for graduate school. This request was taken over the phone. Should you include the student's grade or GPA in this letter? Answer
Question: You hear a faculty member talking about a specific student. You know the student and her family. Can you access the student's records to see how she is progressing academically? Answer
