Educational Records Introduction Educational records are kept by University offices to facilitate the educational development of students. Faculty and staff members may also keep informal records relating to their functional responsibilities with individual students.
Students have the right to have some control over the disclosure of information from the records.
Educational institutions have the responsibility to prevent improper disclosure of personally identifiable information from the records. Student and Parent Rights Relating to Educational Records Students have a right to know about the purposes, content, and location of information kept as part of their educational records. They have a right to gain access to and challenge the content of their educational records. The rights of challenge are not intended to allow students to contest, for example, a grade in a course because they felt a higher grade should have been assigned. Students also have a right to expect that information in their educational records will be kept confidential, disclosed only with their permission or under provisions of the law.