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How to Ensure FERPA Compliance in Colleges and Universities

May 3, 2022

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As the amount of data that higher education institutions collect continues to increase, universities are under rising pressure to keep that data protected. This pressure comes not only from students but from a federal regulation that requires a certain level of data privacy.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that allows parents of K–12 students the right to access their children’s education records, seek to have the records amended and have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from education records. When a student meets certain eligibility requirements, like enrolling in college, the rights under FERPA transfer from the parents to the student.

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