FERPA Policy

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. §1232g, and the Texas Public Information Act, Texas Government Code § 552.001 et seq., are respectively a federal and state law that provide students with the following rights with respect to their student educational records:

• to inspect and review the student's education records;
• to consent to disclosure of the student's education records to third parties, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent;
• to request amendment of the student's education records to ensure that they are not inaccurate or misleading;
• to be notified of the student's privacy rights under FERPA;
• to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the University to comply with the requirements of FERPA.

Model policies are templates that set forth minimum standards that can be used by individual institutions to develop a tailored policy on a given subject.