The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 is a Federal law which states (a) that a written institutional policy must be established and (b) that a statement of adopted procedures covering the privacy rights of students be made available. The law provides that the institution will maintain the confidentiality of student education records. Lewis-Clark State College accords all the rights under the law to students. No one outside the institution shall have access to nor will the institution disclose any information from students' education records without written consent of students, except to personnel within the institution, to officials of other instititions in which students seek to enroll, to persons or organizations providing students financial aid, to accrediting agencies carrying out their accreditation function, to persons in compliance with a judicial order and to ther persons in an emergency in order to protect the health or safety of students or other persons. For more information concerning FERPA please refer to the Lewis-Clark State College General Catalog.