Confidentiality of Your Student Directory Information
What is FERPA?
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA") is a federal
law that gives students in higher education various rights with respect
to their education records. One of your rights under FERPA relates to
the confidentiality of information contained in your education records.
As a general rule, Rutgers may not disclose "personally identifiable
information" from your education records to anyone outside of the
University without your prior written consent. There are exceptions to
this general rule; one of them relates to "directory information."
Rutgers may disclose (release directory information) about you without
your prior consent provided Rutgers does the following:
- informs you what we define as directory information, and
- provides you the opportunity to request that directory information not be disclosed.
Directory Information at Rutgers Includes:
| name |
major field of study |
| campus address |
class year |
| campus post office address |
dates of attendance |
| campus telephone number |
current credit load |
| Rutgers e-mail address |
credit hours earned |
| RUCS user name |
degree(s) received |
| permanent (home) address |
date(s) of degree(s) |
| permanent (home) telephone number |
weight and height of intercollegiate athletes |
| school of attendance |
most recent previous school attended |
date of birth
|
honors and awards
|
Disclosure of Directory Information at Rutgers
The most common ways in which Rutgers discloses your directory information are
- Rutgers Online Directory
- The Rutgers Online Directory is a database of Rutgers students,
faculty and staff that is available through the Rutgers homepage (http://search.rutgers.edu/index-alt.html?legacy) and accessible worldwide via the Internet.
- Verifications Division of the University Registrar
- The Verifications Division of the University Registrar confirms to
prospective employers, credit agencies, educational institutions and
others that you are enrolled at Rutgers. This usually occurs when you
have filed a job, school or credit application and the recipient needs
to verify information on the application.
Preventing Disclosure of Your Directory Information
Submitting
this form will make your directory information confidential until you
make a written request to the Office of the Registrar to lift this
restriction. Please be advised that requesting full
confidentiality of your Directory Information will make this
information unavailable to prospective employers, insurance companies,
and others to whom you may want this information known or verified.
Thus it is recommended that students carefully consider whether
personal privacy concerns outweigh the potential inconvenience of
having directory information withheld.
Updated: October 17, 2024