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Policy Analysis Timeline

By dereb03
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    FERPA Timeline

    Policy analysis is one way to look at the evolution of American Higher Education and its historical frameworks and philosophical shifts.

  • FERPA Signed into Law

    FERPA Signed into Law
    The FERPA bill signed into law is for the purpose of uniformity and to assure "general welfare" requirements are met with funding as an incentive in an educational atmosphere. http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/leg-history.html

  • Amendment to Education Amendment

    The legislative history explains that this amendment corrects an "anomaly" caused by the Department's interpretation of FERPA as precluding State auditors from requesting student records in order to conduct State audits of local and State-supported programs. http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/leg-history.html

  • Est. Department of Education as Cabinet Level Agency

    Est. Department of Education as Cabinet Level Agency
    The original Department of Education was created in 1867 to collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems.
    The passage of the Second Morrill Act in 1890 gave the then-named Office of Education responsibility for administering support for the original system of land-grant colleges and universities. http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html

  • Campus Security Act

    Campus Security Act
    CSCPA amended FERPA to ensure that educational
    institutions may disclose information concerning sex offenders that they receive under State sex
    offender registration and community notification programs. http://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/campus.html

  • Higher Education Amendments of 1992

    Higher Education Amendments of 1992
    Requires an institution of higher education or a State higher education agency (or consortium), to be eligible for such a partnership grant, to enter a written partnership agreement with a local education agency (LEA). Refer to Link below for further elaboration: https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/1150

  • Improving America's Schools Act

    Improving America's Schools Act
    The 1994 IASA amendments added a new, related exception for law enforcement purposes that allows agencies and institutions to disclose information to designees of a Federal grand jury subpoena without first notifying parents or students, and to designees in any other subpoena issued for a law enforcement purpose with notice to parents or students at the discretion of the court or other issuing agency. https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/6

  • Higher Education Amendments of 1998

    1998 HEA amendments also added a new exception that allows institutions of higher education to disclose to a parent or legal guardian information regarding a student's violation of any law or institutional rule or policy governing the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance if the student is under 21 & the institution determines that the student has committed a disciplinary violation with respect to the use or possession. https://www.congress.gov/bill/105th-congress/house-bill/6

  • Campus Sex Crime Prevention Act

    Campus Sex Crime Prevention Act
    The CSCPA amendment to FERPA directed the Secretary of Education “to take appropriate steps to notify educational institutions” that they may disclose information concerning registered sex offenders provided to them under State registration and community notification programs. http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/hottopics/ht10-24-02.html

  • USA PATRIOT Act of 2001

    USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
    The USA Patriot Act of 2001 added a new subsection (j) that allows the U.S. Attorney General to apply for an ex parte court order requiring an educational agency or institution to allow the Attorney General to collect and use education records relevant to investigations and prosecutions of specified crimes or acts of terrorism (domestic or international). Refer to links explanation. http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/leg-history.html
    https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/highlights.htm

  • Near Future Policy

    In the near future campuses may need to begin to consider the physical presence students establish when notifying other of their attendance on public/private campuses through the use of social media. The student updating their moment to moment location could potentially update a possible danger unbeknownst to the student. This in turn would make the potential danger difficult for campus police to follow. Another issue could be if an instructor chooses social media to post student grades.