NOTIFICATION OF RIGHTS UNDER FERPA FOR POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS In conformance with Section 438 of the General Education Provisions Act (Title IV of the Public Law 90-247 as amended), added by Section 513 P.L. 93380 (enacted on August 21, 1974) and amended by Senate Joint Resolution 40, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 allows students to restrict access to their education records including requests for information from parents and other third parties. Without a student’s written consent, the College cannot disclose information to any third party (exceptions noted below). Students may, however, provide the College with a release allowing selected individuals to have access to their educational records or portions thereof.

The College maintains two types of record files: academic and financial. Students may examine either set of records at any given time during regular school hours. For academic records, the student should contact the Director of Education; for financial records, students should contact the student outreach coordinator or the College Director.

As an exemption to this law providing availability of personal records to the student, the following information will be kept confidential and will not be made available to the student: • Confidential financial records of the parents, unless written permission has been given by the parents to divulge such information to the student. • The College will not permit access to or release of confidential information to any individual or agency without the written consent of the student, except for the following reasons: • Records are required by College officials in the proper performance of duties, • Organizations conducting studies for educational and governmental agencies, • U.S. Government agencies as listed in Public Law 93-380, • Accrediting agencies, • Parents of dependent children as defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, • Appropriate persons about an emergency, • Other educational institutions upon request of transcripts for students seeking enrollment in that institution, • In connection with the award of financial aid, and • In response to legal court orders.

In addition to the reasons listed above, the College may also release any information which it has designated as “directory information,” unless the student specifically objects in writing to such disclosure (as further described below).

The College has designated the following categories of student information as “directory information”: • Student’s name; • Student’s address; • Student’s telephone numbers (including cellular phone numbers, home phone numbers, or any other numbers provided to the College by the student);