FERPA stands for
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (sometimes called the Buckley
Amendment). Passed by Congress in 1974, the Act grants
four specific rights to the adult student:
the right to
see the information that the institution is keeping on the student
the right to
seek amendment to those records and in certain cases append a
statement to the record
the right to
consent to disclosure of his/her records
the right to
file a complaint with the FERPA Office in Washington
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