All of these restrictions apply to complying with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974. Be aware that another federal act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, protects the confidentiality of information regarding students' disabilities. The act gives students the right to inspect and review their educational records , to ask to have those records amended if they seem incorrect and to have some control over the disclosure of information in the records. The area in bold is the one that affects faculty as they collect student papers and record student grades. Educational records do not contain directory information.
Students have the right to place blocks on their directory information.
There are two areas that must be defined when talking about faculty and educational records. One is what student records are faculty able to access and the other is what student records may the faculty release. They will also be notified of disciplinary probation, suspension, or expulsion.