A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibility. Upon request, the University discloses education records without consent to officials of another school in which a student seeks or intends to enroll. Directory information may be disclosed by Wake Forest for any purpose in its discretion, without the consent of a parent of a student or an eligible student. Parents of students and eligible students have the right to refuse to permit the designation of any or all of the above information as directory information. Any parent or student refusing to have any or all of the designated directory information disclosed must file written notification to this effect with this institution at the Office of the Registrar on or before September 1 of the current academic semester.
Forms are available at that office.
If a refusal is not filed, Wake Forest assumes that neither a parent of a student nor eligible student objects to the release of the directory information designated. Wake Forest is a university dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. Each of these factors constitutes a significant aspect of the unique character of the institution. Beginning as early as 1894, Wake Forest accepted an obligation to provide professional training in a number of fields, as a complement to its primary mission of liberal arts education. This responsibility is fulfilled in the conviction that the humane letters embodied in the liberal arts are also centrally relevant to the professions.