
FERPA Quiz
Question 1
If a student's parent calls asking how a student is doing in a class, can you give out that information?
Question 2
You receive a call from a recruiting firm asking for names and addresses of students with a GPA of 3.0 or better. They say they have good job information for these students. Can you help these students get jobs by giving out this information?
Question 3
A person comes to the College of Arts and Sciences office with a letter containing a signature that gives consent to release the transcript of a student. Do you give the transcript to them?
Question 4
You receive a phone call from the local police department indicating that they are trying to determine whether a particular student was in attendance on a specific day. Since they are in the middle of a investigation are you allowed to give them this information?
Question 5
You get a frantic phone call from an individual who says the he is a student's father and must get in touch with her immediately because of a family emergency. Can you tell him when and where her next class is today?
Question 6
Is it wrong for professors to leave graded exams, papers, etc. outside their office for students to pick up?
Question 7
An unauthorized person retrieves information from a computer screen that was left unattended. Under FERPA, is the institution responsible?

