{"id":91,"date":"2024-08-09T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:07:56","slug":"whatis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/whatis\/","title":{"rendered":"FERPA at MTSU &#8211; What is FERPA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FERPA stands for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (sometimes called the Buckley Amendment). Passed by Congress in 1974, the Act grants four specific rights to the adult student:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-style-compact-list wp-block-list\">\n<li>the right to see the information that the institution is keeping on the student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the right to seek amendment to those records and in certain cases append a statement to the record<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the right to consent to disclosure of his\/her records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the right to file a complaint with the FERPA Office in Washington<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-mtsublue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/ferpa\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">&lt; Back<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-right is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-d445cf74 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-mtsublue-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/ferparec\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px\">Next &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FERPA stands for Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (sometimes called the Buckley Amendment). Passed by Congress in 1974, the Act grants four specific rights to the adult student:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-bannernosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}