Notices & Disclosures

家庭教育权利和隐私法(FERPA)

The Executive Director of Student Services and the Vice President for Student Affairs are responsible for notifying students annually of their rights under FERPA. 年度通知将在 Boston College Bulletin and in the Boston College Student Guide.

All non-directory information is considered confidential and will not be released to outside inquiries without the express written consent of the student.

Student Rights Under FERPA

电子游戏软件在其教育项目的管理中保留了大量关于学生的记录, as well as its housing, athletics, and extracurricular programs. 大学还维护就业和财务记录供自己使用，并遵守州和联邦法规. Boston College is committed to protecting the privacy interests of its students and to maintaining the confidentiality of student records in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).

These rights are as follows:

• The right to inspect and review the student's education record within 45 days of the day the University receives a request for access.
  
  Any student who wishes to inspect and review information contained in an education record maintained by any office of the University may, with proper identification, 向负责保存该记录的办公室申请查阅该记录. 除非情况需要有正式的请求，口头请求可以得到尊重.
  
  每当负责保存教育记录的办公室无法回应时, 学生可以向学生服务办公室提交, dean, academic department head, 或其他有关官员的书面请求，以确定他或她希望检查的记录. 学校官员应在收到请求后45天内提供访问, 并通知学生查阅记录的时间和地点. 如果提交请求的大学官员没有保存记录, 该官员将告知该学生该向哪位官员提出请求.
  
  
• The right to request the amendment of the student's education record if the student believes that information contained in his or her record is inaccurate, 误导或侵犯他或她的隐私权.
  
  任何认为其教育记录中所载信息不准确的学生, misleading, 或侵犯他或她的隐私权是写信给大学负责记录的官员, 清楚地指出他或她想要更改的记录部分, 并说明为什么要修改记录.
  
  如果大学认为不应按要求修改记录, 学校将通知该学生, 告知学生他或她有权参加听证会，并提供有关听证会过程的信息.
  
  
• 有权同意披露包含在学生教育记录中的个人身份信息, 除非在FERPA允许的范围内. 允许在未经同意的情况下披露的一个例外是向具有合法教育利益的大学官员披露, 这可能包括行政部门的员工, supervisory, academic or research, or support staff position (including law enforcement unit personnel and health staff); members of the Board of Trustees; and students serving on an official committee, 如纪律委员会或申诉委员会, 或协助其他大学官员执行其任务. 大学官员也可能是承包商, consultants, volunteers or other outside parties to whom the University has outsourced institutional services or functions that would ordinarily be performed by University employees. The University may disclose education records without consent to officials of other educational institutions that have requested the records and in which a student seeks or intends to enroll or is already enrolled so long as the disclosure is for purposes related to the student's enrollment or transfer.
  
  
• 向美国政府提出申诉的权利.S. 就大学涉嫌未能遵守FERPA的要求向教育部投诉. 书面投诉可直接提交给美国家庭政策合规办公室.S. 教育部，400马里兰大道，SW，华盛顿特区.C., 20202-4605.

请注意，这是所罗门修正案的一部分, Boston College is required by law to provide branches of the military access to certain student directory information which normally would be denied to them under the 家庭教育权利和隐私法(FERPA).