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FERPA Enforcement Reaches New Extreme

Posted on Friday, February 26th 2010
Tags: bureaucracy, conduct, cya, enforcement, fear, ferpa, judicial, records, sharing, training
FERPA Enforcement Reaches New Extreme
by Irma Voigt Staff Writer Tired of educating students and parents about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), one university office is taking an extremist approach. “We’re simply denying our mission, vision, our very existence,” said Erik J. DeLaney, Director of Judicial Affairs at Tennison State University, in what he said would be [...]

Math and Physics Professors Collaborate to Explore FERPA Loophole Theorem

Posted on Friday, August 7th 2009
Tags: college humor, ferpa, ferpa law, ferpa regulations at schools, lampoon, privacy law, senator sherrod brown, sherrod brown, spoof
Math and Physics Professors Collaborate to Explore FERPA Loophole Theorem
Funded by a grant from Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, scientists from Harvard and MIT are looking more closely at the oft-theorized “FERPA Loophole.” Mathematical theorists have studied knot formations in space and nature, but not yet in higher education law. “We’re pioneers in taking on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act to uncover its [...]

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