Many graduate programs utilize online commercial survey-style recommendations. Professor Lin received a request email and survey to complete from the survey vendor "upon request from your student Joel Sheffler". The email said that the survey is "FERPA compliant". Professor Lin is complying with FERPA by completing the survey.

True or False?

FERPA is a federal privacy law that enables parents the right to access their children's education records, such as report cards, transcripts, disciplinary records, contact and family information, and class schedules at all educational agencies, institutions or schools funds-managed by the Department.

As this law is implemented for parents with children enrolled in an specific school not for professors, then the answer is: False

Explanation:

FERPA means: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act inacted in 1974. It is a U. S. federal law intented to protect the students'PII. It protects students' Personally Identifiable Information allowing only parents the right to reach their education's records such as files, documents, and other materials kept by an educational agency or institution, or by a person acting for such agency or institution getting federal funds.

Parents have the right to request records' amendment or to have control in the disclosure of personally identifiable information to protect student and parent privacy.

The FERPA law, as a protecting law for the privacy of students and parents from public view, must be addressed by every public schools and state or local education institution to safeguard the confidentiality of their records. It is redacted very simply to understand actual educational privacy rights for students and parents and it protects both paper and computerized records, failure to comply with these requirements will result in a violation.

Being underaged (less than 18), only parents or guardians have the legal "right" under FERPA to request and research education records.

Parochial and private schools at the elementary and secondary levels that do not receive Federal funding are not subject to FERPA.