April 18, 2008
The Family Rights and Privacy Act: 7 Myths — and the Truth
An extraordinary amount of the national discussion since the shootings at Virginia Tech a year ago has focused on the role that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa, the federal statute governing the privacy of student records, played in that tragedy. What that discussion has revealed most notably is that, although colleges have been subject to Ferpa for more than 30 years, and although few if any statutes have such wide-reaching, everyday application on our campuses, most
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