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McDonald, Steven J. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
An extraordinary amount of the national discussion since the shootings at Virginia Tech a year ago has focused on the role that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or Ferpa, the federal statute governing the privacy of student records, played in that tragedy. What that discussion has revealed most notably is that, although colleges have…
Descriptors: Student Records, Privacy, Civil Rights, Federal Legislation