The Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law designed to protect the privacy of a student's education record. Except for directory information, all information contained in the education records of a student are considered confidential.

Students have the right to further restrict their directory information by making such a request to the Office of the Registrar.

• Callers from outside the university requesting information about a student should be referred to the Office of the Registrar. This is the case whether or not a student has placed a restriction on his or her record.

• Before releasing any directory information, it is CRUCIAL to ALWAYS look first for the privacy shade icon .
   
• If there is a directory exclusion preventing release of certain information to the public, the data is considered confidential . However, University officials with a legitimate need still have access to the restricted information.
   
• In a case where a student has requested ALL directory information be restricted a No Data Designated Releasable message will be displayed with no links to any releasable data.
   

Annual Notification of Student Rights at IUB

FERPA Tutorial at IUB

Adding and Removing FERPA Restrictions in SIS

Identifying FERPA Restrictions