When Is a College Like a Bank?

By DAN CARNEVALE

A federal law regulating financial institutions poses puzzling security rules for academe

When Congress passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, college officials

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paid little notice. Higher education seemed to have little to do with a law that requires financial institutions, such

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