FERPA Quiz
- You receive a phone call from the local police department indicating that they are trying to determine whether a particular student was in attendance on a specific day. Since they are in the middle of an investigation are you allowed to give them this information?
- You get a frantic phone call from an individual who says that he is a student's father and must get in touch with her immediately because of a family emergency. Can you tell him when and where her next class is today?
- An unauthorized person retrieves information from a computer screen that was left unattended. Under FERPA, is the institution responsible?
- Directory information for a college is defined under FERPA as any information that a college lists in the student directory.
- A professor wants information on a student and is automatically entitled to it because he is a school official.
- A student has FERPA rights as long as they are 18 years of age or older.
- Faculty can put graded test in a pile on a table outside the office for the students to sort through and pick out their test.
- UNC must comply with a lawfully issued subpoena after a reasonable effort is made to notify the student of the intent to comply.
- Can a student call your office and receive GPA information over the phone?
- Can the parents of a student under 21 years of age obtain the same educational information as their student?
- The FBI can obtain information about a student under investigation without a written release from the student.
- If a student has not restricted directory information, anyone can call and find out his/her major.
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