FERPA

目录或公共信息

由其自行决定, Mount Mercy大学 may provide “directory information” in accordance with the provisions of the Family Education Rights and 隐私 Act of 1974 (FERPA). 目录 information is defined as that information which would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if disclosed. Designated directory information at Mount Mercy大学 includes the following: student name, 本地和永久的地址和电话号码, 电子邮件地址, 出席日期, 分类(我.e. 大一新生), 全职或兼职, 课程表, 主修领域, 奖, 荣誉(包括院长名单), 授予学位(包括日期), 曾就读的院校, 照相或录像的图象, past and present participation in officially recognized sports and activities, 身体因素(身高), 运动员体重), 出生日期、地点和家乡.

Students may block the public disclosure of directory information by notifying the 注册处, 沃德楼211号, and filing the appropriate request to block disclosure form during the appropriate time frame. Students should carefully consider the consequences of a decision to withhold directory information. 不管对学生有什么影响, the institution assumes no liability for honoring the student’s instruction to withhold directory information. The block disclosure will remain in place until a written revocation is 提交ted by the student.

截至2012年1月3日，美国财政部已宣布.S. Department of Education's FERPA regulations expand the circumstances under which your education records and personally identifiable information (PII) contained in such records — including your Social Security Number, 成绩, 或其他私人信息-可能未经您的同意而被访问. 首先，美国.S. 美国总审计长.S. 司法部长，美国.S. 教育部长, or state and local education authorities ("Federal and State Authorities") may allow access to your records and PII without your consent to any third party designated by a Federal or State Authority to evaluate a federal- or state-supported education program. The evaluation may relate to any program that is "principally engaged in the provision of education,比如幼儿教育和职业培训, as well as any program that is administered by an education agency or institution. 第二个, Federal and State Authorities may allow access to your education records and PII without your consent to researchers performing certain types of studies, in certain cases even when we object to or do not request such research. Federal and State Authorities must obtain certain use-restriction and data security promises from the entities that they authorize to receive your PII, 但当局不需要对这些实体保持直接控制. 除了, 与全州纵向数据系统有关, 国家当局可以收取, 编译, 永久保留, 在未经您同意的情况下分享您教育记录中的个人信息, and they may track your participation in education and other programs by linking such PII to other personal information about you that they obtain from other Federal or State data sources, 包括劳动力发展, 失业保险, 儿童福利, 少年司法, 服兵役, 以及移民学生档案系统.

非目录信息的发布

Students may request non-directory information in their educational records (including disciplinary records) be released through authorization, 以书面形式, 特别是包括学生的名字, 收件人的名字, 哪一份记录要释放，学生签名. Examples would include the request to send an 学术 transcript or the request to release 成绩 to a parent of a student.

FERPA的例外情况

一般来说, 在FERPA, personally identifiable information may not be released from a student’s education records without the student’s prior written consent. Exceptions to this rule are set out in the FERPA regulations and the FERPA policy at Mount Mercy大学.

The University may disclose personally identifiable information from a student’s education records without the student’s prior written consent in the following situations, after using reasonable methods to identify and authenticate the identity of the parties to whom it discloses such information:

• 向有合法教育利益的学校官员披露. A school official is a person employed by the University in an administrative, 监督, 学术, research or support staff position (including safety personnel and health staff)
• Disclosure to a person or company with whom the University has contracted
• 向校董会成员披露
• 向在官方委员会任职的学生透露, 比如纪律委员会或申诉委员会, 或协助其他学校官员完成他或她的任务
• Disclosure to officials of another institution in which the student seeks or intends to enroll and disclosure to officials of another institution in which a currently enrolled MMU student is contemporaneously enrolled. The University may also make disclosures to an institution where a former MMU student is already enrolled, as long as the disclosures are for purposes related to the student’s enrollment or transfer
• 与健康或安全紧急情况有关的披露
• Other situations allowed 在FERPA’s Exceptions to Written Consent Policy

按照法律的要求, Mount Mercy may also respond to requests for information under the Solomon Amendment, 美国爱国者法案, and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 by disclosing education records to parties authorized to collect such information under those laws.

有关FERPA的更多资料，请浏览 U.S. 教育部网站.