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Thomas Edison State University adheres to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974, as amended, known as the Buckley Amendment. FERPA affords eligible students certain rights with respect to their education records. Thomas Edison State University makes public announcement of FERPA in its University Catalogs.
These rights include:
Family Policy Compliance Office
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
Thomas Edison State University has designated the following categories of student information as directory information: student name, e-mail address, enrollment status, area of study, degree/honors conferred and dates of conferral. This information may be released for any purpose at the discretion of the University. Students have the right to withhold the disclosure of directory information by written notification to the Office of the Registrar.
Thomas Edison State University discloses education records without a student’s prior written consent under the FERPA exception for disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is a person employed by Thomas Edison State University; serving on the board of trustees or serving on an official committee. A school official also may include a volunteer or contractor outside of Thomas Edison State University who performs an institutional service or function for which the school would otherwise use its own employees and who is under the direct control of the school with respect to the use and maintenance of personally identifiable information (PII) from education records.
FERPA permits the disclosure of PII from students’ education records, without consent of the student, if the disclosure meets certain conditions found in the FERPA regulations. Except for disclosures to school officials, disclosures related to some judicial orders or lawfully issued subpoenas, disclosures of directory information, and disclosures to the student, FERPA regulations requires the institution to record the disclosure. A postsecondary institution may disclose PII from the education records without obtaining prior written consent of the student –