The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, commonly referred to as the Buckley Amendment or FERPA, is designed to protect the confidentiality of student records educational institutions maintain and to give students access to their records to assure accuracy. FERPA affords students certain rights with respect to their education records.

Access to Education Records

You have the right to inspect and review your education records within 45 days of the day BU receives a written request for access, anytime after your matriculation.

Definitions

Types, locations and custodians of records

Waivers

Records not open to student review

Right of BU to refuse to provide copies

Fee for copies of records

Request for Amendment of Education Records: The right to request amendment of your education records if you believe they're inaccurate or misleading.

Disclosure of Education Records

Directory Information: BU designates the following categories of student information as public or "Directory Information." BU may disclose such information at its discretion. While BU has the right to disclose this information, all necessary precautions are taken to protect the safety and well being of our students.

• Awards and honors ( Dean's List)
• Campus e-mail address
• Class standing (e.g. sophomore
• College of enrollment
• Current enrollment
• Date and place of birth
• Dates of attendance
• Degree(s) conferred (including dates)
• Full-time or part-time status, withdrawn
• Home telephone number
• Local address
• Local telephone number
• Major field(s) of study
• Name
• Permanent address
• Picture of Student
• Student Class Schedules

Past and present participation in officially recognized sports and activities, including fraternities and sororities, and physical factors of athletes (e.g. height, weight)

Currently enrolled students may withhold disclosure of directory information. To withhold disclosure, written notification must be received on a semester basis at:

Office of the Registrar

150 Student Services Center

Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg, PA 17815-1301

BU will honor a request to withhold directory information. Students should understand that, by withholding directory information, some information considered important to students may not reach them.

Compliance

You are encouraged to contact BU's registrar, Joseph Kissell, 150 Student Services Center, Bloomsburg University.

Under FERPA, you have the right to contact the Family Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202-4605, with a complaint about the BU's compliance with FERPA.

Complete regulations and full definitions of terminology are at FERPA Regulations or FERPA Regulations (.pdf)