{"id":132315,"date":"2026-09-17T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=132315"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:12:47","slug":"your-privacy-your-rights-understanding-ferpa-at-owu-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/your-privacy-your-rights-understanding-ferpa-at-owu-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Privacy, Your Rights: Understanding FERPA at OWU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<header>Did you know that as an OWU student, you have control over your own academic records? It\u2019s thanks to a federal law called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which protects the privacy of your student information.<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This law gives you the right to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspect and review your education records.<\/li>\n<li>Request to amend records that you believe are inaccurate or misleading.<\/li>\n<li>Control the disclosure of your records to others, including your parents or family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to grant access to your education records to a parent, guardian, or other third party, you must provide your consent through this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/office-of-the-registrar\/forms\/#ferpa-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/office-of-the-registrar\/forms\/%23ferpa-release&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1789687934654000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1YPJc07uiMySFjt3KS574b\">release form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a full breakdown of your rights and the easy-to-use form to grant access, please visit the\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/office-of-the-registrar\/ferpa-rights-and-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/academics\/office-of-the-registrar\/ferpa-rights-and-privacy\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1789687934654000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2OTrO1R1CanOHA-KEBvNiX\">Office of the Registrar\u2019s FERPA page<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>OWU Sponsor: Office of the Registrar<br \/>\nContact: Lee Richards at <a href=\"mailto:registrar@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registrar@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that as an OWU student, you have control over your own academic records? It\u2019s thanks to a federal law called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which protects the privacy of your student information. This law gives you the right to: Inspect and review your education records. Request to amend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132316,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132315\/revisions\/132316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}