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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 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 college will maintain the confidentiality of student
educational records.
Lanier Technical
College accords all the rights under the law to its students. No
one outside the college shall have access to nor will the college
disclose any information from student's educational records without
the written consent of students except to personnel within the college,
to officials of other institutions in which students seek to enroll,
to persons or organizations providing student financial aid, to
accrediting agencies carrying out their accreditation function,
to persons in compliance with a judicial order, and to persons in
an emergency in order to protect the health or safety of students
or other persons. All these exceptions are permitted under the Act.
Within the Lanier
Technical College community, only those members, individually or
collectively, acting in the students' educational interest are allowed
access to student education records. These members include personnel
in the Offices of the Registrar, Administrative Services, Financial
Aid, Admissions, and Academic Affairs within the limitations of
their need to know.
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