Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA)
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Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
The Executive Director of Student Services and the Vice President for Student Affairs are responsible for notifying students annually of their rights under FERPA. The annual notice is to appear in the 电子游戏软件公报 在 波士顿大学学生指南.
All non-directory information is considered confidential and will not be released to outside inquiries without the express written consent of the student.
FERPA规定的学生权利
电子游戏软件在其教育项目的管理中保留了大量关于学生的记录, 以及它的住房, 体育运动, 还有课外活动. 大学还维护就业和财务记录供自己使用,并遵守州和联邦法规. 电子游戏软件 is committed to protecting the privacy interests of its students and to maintaining the confidentiality of student records in accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA).
这些权利如下:
- The right to inspect and review the student's education record within 45 days of the day the University receives a request for access.
Any student who wishes to inspect and review information contained in an education record maintained by any office of the University may, 有适当的身份证明, request access to the record from the office responsible for maintaining that record. 除非情况需要有正式的请求,口头请求可以得到尊重.
Whenever an office responsible for maintaining education records is unable to respond, the student may submit to the 学生服务办公室, 迪安, 学术部部长, 或其他有关官员的书面请求,以确定他或她希望检查的记录. 学校官员应在收到请求后45天内提供访问, and shall notify the student of the time and place the record may be inspected. 如果提交请求的大学官员没有保存记录, 该官员将告知该学生该向哪位官员提出请求.
- The right to request the amendment of the student's education record if the student believes that information contained in his or her record is inaccurate, 误导 or in violation of his or her rights of privacy.
任何认为其教育记录中所载信息不准确的学生, 误导, 或侵犯他或她的隐私权是写信给大学负责记录的官员, clearly identifying the part of the record he or she wants changed, and specifying why the record should be amended.
If the University concludes that the record should not be amended as requested, the University will notify the student, 告知学生他或她有权参加听证会,并提供有关听证会过程的信息.
- 有权同意披露包含在学生教育记录中的个人身份信息, except to the extent permitted under FERPA. 允许在未经同意的情况下披露的一个例外是向具有合法教育利益的大学官员披露, which may include employees in administrative, 监督, 学术或电子游戏正规平台, or support staff position (包括 law enforcement unit personnel and health staff); members of the Board of Trustees; and students serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committees, or assisting another University officials in performing their tasks. University officials may also be contractors, 咨询顾问, volunteers or other outside parties to whom the University has outsourced institutional services or functions that would ordinarily be performed by University employees. The University may disclose education records without consent to officials of other educational institutions that have requested the records and in which a student seeks or intends to enroll or is already enrolled so long as the disclosure is for purposes related to the student's enrollment or transfer.
- The right to file a complaint with the U.S. 就大学涉嫌未能遵守FERPA的要求向教育部投诉. Written complaints may be directed to the Family Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C., 20202-4605.
Please note that as part of the Solomon Amendment, 电子游戏软件 is required by law to provide branches of the military access to certain student directory information which normally would be denied to them under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Student Loan Code of Conduct for Employees
All 电子游戏软件 employees whose job responsibilities include matters related to student financial aid are expected to maintain exemplary standards of professional conduct and must adhere to this Code of Conduct in compliance with Federal regulations. 学生服务执行主任应每年通知这些员工他们在本准则下的义务.
电子游戏软件:
- Prohibits all revenue-sharing arrangements with lenders. 大学将不会推广或推荐任何贷款人以换取费用或其他物质利益.
- 不要求或接受私人贷款提供的资金,包括机会池贷款.
- Certifies loans from any lender selected by a borrower without undue delay, and will not direct a first-time borrower’s loan to a particular lender.
- Ensures that the process through which the student signs a Master Promissory Note preserves the student’s right to select the lender of his or her choice.
- Does not arrange for alternate loan programs that disadvantage students or parents not enrolled in the program or receiving such loan terms.
- Prohibits the request or acceptance of staffing assistance from lenders.
- Prohibits employees or agents of a lender from identifying themselves, 直接的或暗示的, as an employee of 电子游戏软件 to students, parents or any persons seeking information from 电子游戏软件.
- 根据选择贷款人的首选贷款人名单,仅在学生和家长的最佳利益.
- Fully discloses the selection process for a preferred lender.
- 向借款人提供有关首选贷方列表上贷方提供的贷款产品的消费者信息, 包括 any agreements lenders have to sell their loans to other entities.
- Informs students and parents that they are not required to use any of the lenders on a preferred lender list and can select any lender of their choice.
每一个电子游戏软件的员工参与贷款过程的任何方面(这包括, 但不限于, 财政援助人员, both on the main campus and at the Law School, and the Enrollment Management staff) must avoid any situations that create a potential conflict of interest between the employee’s personal or outside interests and his or her role and responsibilities as an employee of 电子游戏软件, and must disclose to his or her supervisor any potential conflict as it arises.
Specifically, staff members must not:
- 索取或接受来自任何涉及学生经济援助任何方面的商业实体的超过最低价值的礼物, 包括, 但不限于, 现金支付, 股票, 俱乐部会员, 支持, 折扣, 住宿, 餐, 娱乐, 和服务. This prohibition extends to a staff member’s family (includes staff member's and spouse's: parent or stepparent; sibling or step-sibling; child or stepchild; and grandchild or step-grandchild, as well as a child's spouse and a sibling's spouse).
- 从事任何活动, 无论是否得到补偿, outside of 电子游戏软件 that has the potential to create a conflict of interest with the staff member’s duties as a financial aid professional employed by 电子游戏软件, 包括接受任何费用, 付款, or other financial benefit as compensation for any type of employment, consulting or other arrangement with a lender, 担保人, 或服务机构.
- Receive any compensation for serving on an advisory board, 委员会, 或由出借人成立的集团, 担保人, 或者是一组贷款人或担保人. 希望在咨询委员会任职的工作人员必须事先征得其主管的同意, 并且只有在获得批准的顾问委员会任职期间的合理费用才能得到报销.
工作人员 members should understand and adhere to all institutional policies and any 当地的, state and federal requirements that are applicable to their conduct or job performance. Any staff member who has a question whether a particular situation or activity creates a conflict of interest or violates any law or 政策 should immediately notify their supervisor prior to commencing such activity, or at the earliest time when such a question arises. 监事应在收到任何询问后与总法律顾问办公室联系.
学生档案的保密
Certain personally identifiable information from a student’s education record, designated by 电子游戏软件 as directory information, may be released without the student’s prior consent. This information includes name; term, 首页, 当地的, and electronic mail addresses; telephone listing; date and place of birth; photograph; major field of study; enrollment status; grade level; participation in officially recognized activities and sports; weight and height of members of athletic teams; dates of attendance; school/college of enrollment; anticipated date of graduation; degrees and awards received; the most recent previous educational agency or institution attended; and other similar information.
学生可以阻止发布所有目录信息,包括注册验证, 并且可以对电子游戏软件社区或一般公众屏蔽选定的目录信息. In order to do this, students must visit mst3.agemboutique.com/myservices to suppress the release of all or selected directory information. Suppression is available by selecting Privacy Preferences. 教师和工作人员在进行正式的大学业务时,不会屏蔽学生目录信息.
All non-directory information is considered confidential and will not be released to outside inquiries without the express written consent of the student unless an exception under FERPA permits the disclosure. For more information, access 电子游戏软件's 学生学习记录 政策.
对学生家长的披露
When a student reaches the age of 18, or attends a postsecondary institution regardless of age, FERPA rights transfer to the student. Guidelines for the disclosure of information to parents are as follows:
- 父母 may obtain directory information at the discretion of the institution.
- 父母 may obtain nondirectory information (e.g., 成绩, GPA),在确定学生在法律上依赖父母一方后,由学校自行决定.
- 家长也可以获得非目录信息,如果他们有学生签署的同意.
不歧视通知书
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University Communication 政策 and Student Responsibilities
Official communications of the University with its currently enrolled students, 包括学术和行政事务通知以及教职员工和行政人员的通信, 可以邮寄吗, 校园邮件, 或电子邮件. To assure that these communications arrive in a timely manner, all enrolled students have the following responsibilities:
邮政服务及校园邮件
For purposes of written communication, the student’s 当地的 and permanent addresses on record at Student Services will be regarded as the student’s official 当地的 and permanent residences. 所有学生都有责任提供本地和永久的邮寄地址, 并在 mst3.agemboutique.com/myservices if the addresses are not accurate in University records. 学生应在每学期开始时检查其地址记录的准确性, and again soon after submitting any corrections.
在国外学习的学生有责任向全球教育办公室提供他们当地的国际地址.
电子邮件
大学承认并使用电子邮件作为官方通讯的适当媒介. The University provides all enrolled students with 电子游戏软件 email addresses, 以及访问电子邮件服务从计算机站在校园的各个位置. All students are expected to access their email accounts regularly, to check for official University communications, and to respond as necessary to such communications.
All student responses to official email communications from the University must contain the student’s 电子游戏软件 email address in the “From:” and “Reply To:” lines, and should originate from the student’s 电子游戏软件 email address, 以确保回应可被视为来自大学社群成员的讯息.
学生可以将他们的电子邮件信息从电子游戏软件的电子邮件地址转发到非大学的电子邮件系统, 如果他们愿意. 在这种情况下, 然而, 学生应全权负责此类转发安排所产生的一切后果, 包括任何非大学系统未能提供或保留大学官方通讯的情况. 学生应该定期从他们的大学电子邮件帐户发送考试信息, to confirm that their email service is functioning reliably.
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