Letters of Importance

Letter to Kennesaw State University, Georgia providing clarification on certain provisions of FERPA.

Letter to University of Massachusetts regarding FERPA as it relates to a request for information received from the Graduate Employee Organization. 

Letter to The University of Mississippi regarding whether certain documents containing student information can be released without violating FERPA. 

Letter to the University of New Hampshire advising of the finding in the complaint filed by a student alleging a violation of rights under FERPA. 

Letter to Hunter College advising of the results a complaint filed by a student alleging a violation of rights under FERPA.

Letter of technical assistance to University of California regarding the applicability of FERPA to the disclosure of student information to the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the Ombudsman. 

Letter of technical assistance to American Federation of Teachers on whether universities may disclose PII from graduate assistant teachers to a union representing student graduate assistants. 

Letter of finding to Cornell University, after a request for reconsideration of a finding that the University violated FERPA. 

Letter of technical assistance to the National Collegiate Athletic Association regarding proposals for the written consent that student-athletes must provide before disclosing information from their education records. 

Letter of technical assistance to the Regents of the University of California, responding to a request for guidance on the response under FERPA to a subpoena duces tecum that may be issued for certain students' education records.