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
To prevent Rutgers from disclosing your directory information, you should do the following:
- Rutgers Online Directory - You control the
information that appears in the Rutgers Online Directory. Visit the
Directory on the Rutgers homepage (http://search.rutgers.edu/index-alt.html?legacy)and follow
the instructions. You may display or hide any of the information in
your listing and/or update certain information. You can make changes to
your listing as often as you wish. Hiding information on the Rutgers
Online Directory means that the information you hide cannot be seen by
the public; however, all your information is still available to
designated Rutgers officials for internal use. Hiding information on
the Rutgers Online Directory also does not limit other disclosures of
your Directory Information (e.g. disclosures by the Verifications
Division of the Registrar to potential employers).
- All Other Disclosures - To keep your directory information completely confidential, except for internal Rutgers use, please complete all the information below and return this form to the Verifications Division of the Office of the Registrar at the appropriate address. 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. Mail your form to:
New Brunswick |
Newark |
Camden |
Proctor Hall, Room 207 |
Blumenthal Hall, Room 309 |
Armitage Hall |
620 George Street |
249 University Avenue |
311 North 5th Street |
Piscataway, NJ 08854 |
Newark, NJ 07102-1896 |
Camden, NJ 08102-1402 |
FAX (732)445-5948 |
FAX (973)353-1357 |
FAX (856)225-6453 |
Please keep my directory information confidential: ______Yes ______No
RUID Student Number (9-digits): ____________________________________
Signature: _________________________________
Date: _____________________________________
For questions about your directory information, this form, and FERPA, please contact:
Miranda Alfonso-Williams, University Director of Privacy, Office of Ethics and Compliance at (973)972-8000 or email ferparu@rutgers.edu
Updated: August 16, 2018