Know your FERPA rights: Managing your directory information
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, gives students certain rights regarding their education records. These include the right to:
- Inspect and review your education records.
- Request an amendment of education records you believe are inaccurate, misleading or otherwise in violation of your FERPA rights.
- Provide consent before personally identifiable information from your education records is disclosed, except when FERPA permits disclosure without consent.
- File a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures to comply with FERPA.
FERPA also permits universities to designate certain student information as directory information, which may generally be released without your consent unless you have requested that it be withheld.
ASU directory (releasable) information includes:
- Student name
- All addresses on file (including ASU email address)
- Telephone numbers
- Date of birth
- Degrees, honors and awards received
- Academic level
- College and major
- Dates of attendance
- Enrollment status (e.g., full-time, part-time, undergraduate, graduate)
- Participation in officially recognized activities and sports
- Weight and height of members of athletic teams
- Most recently attended institution
Releasing directory information is your choice.
If you would like to limit the directory information that ASU may release, you must submit a Withhold Directory Information Request form.