Appendices

Appendix C

Statement of Rights

Texas A&M University encourages students to exercise all of their rights under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Operating under the premise that the educational process is a cooperative venture between a student and the University, we emphasize the following rights of eligible students:

  1. the right to inspect and review, with certain limited exceptions, the student’s education records, including the right to receive explanations and interpretations of the records and to obtain copies of the records when such are needed to allow the student to effectively exercise his/her right of inspection and review;
  2. the right to exercise a limited control over another person’s access to the student’s education records;
  3. the right to correct a student’s education records when the records are inaccurate, misleading or otherwise in violation of FERPA;
  4. the right to report violations of FERPA to the Department of Education;
  5. the right to be informed about FERPA rights.

All the rights and protections given students under FERPA belong to the student. However, information in student records may be provided to parents without the written consent of the student if the student is a financial dependent of his or her parents as defined under Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.