Ferpa Frustrations: It's Time for Reform

• Organizations: Chronicle of Higher Education
• Date: 05/2010
• Description: Congress enacted the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa, in 1974 to safeguard the confidentiality of student "educational records." But today colleges are abusing Ferpa and denying information requests with no conceivable privacy interest—applying a limitless definition of "educational record" well beyond what Ferpa's sponsors intended.

• http://chronicle.com/article/Ferpa-Frustrations-Its-Time/65419/