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• The school discloses education records without student's prior
<br />written consent under the FERPA exception for disclosure to school
<br />officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is a
<br />person employed by the Institution In an administrative, supervisory,
<br />academic, research, or support staff position (Including law en-
<br />forcement unit personnel and health staff); a person serving on the
<br />board of trustees; or a student serving on an official committee, such as
<br />a disciplinary or grievance committee. A school official also may include
<br />a volunteer or contractor outside of Concorde who performs an
<br />Institutional service of function for which the school would otherwise
<br />use its own employees and who is under the direct control of the
<br />school with respect to the use and maintenance of the education
<br />records, such as an attorney, auditor, or collection agent or student
<br />volunteering to assist another school official in performing his or her
<br />tasks. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the
<br />official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her
<br />professional responsibilities for the Institution.
<br />• To officials of another school where the student seeks or intends to
<br />enroll, or where the student is already enrolled if the disclosure is for
<br />purposes related to the student's enrollment or transfer.
<br />• To authorized representatives of the U.S. Comptroller General, the U.S,
<br />Attorney General, the U.S. Secretary of Education, or State and local
<br />educational authorities, such as a State postsecondary authority that is
<br />responsible for supervising the Institution's State -supported education
<br />programs. Disclosures under this provision may be made: 1) in
<br />connection with financial aid for which the student has applied or
<br />which the student has received, if the information is necessary to
<br />determine eligibility for the aid, determine the amount of the aid,
<br />determine the conditions of the aid, or enforce the terms and
<br />conditions of the aid; 2) in connection with an audit or evaluation of
<br />Federal- or State -supported education programs, or for the
<br />enforcement of or compliance with Federal legal requirements that
<br />relate to those programs. These entities may make further disclosures
<br />to outside entities that are designated by them as their authorized
<br />representatives to conduct any audit, evaluation, or enforcement or
<br />compliance activity on their behalf.
<br />• To organizations conducting studies for, or on behalf of, the school in
<br />order to: develop, validate, or administer predictive tests; administer
<br />student aid programs; or Improve instruction.
<br />• To accrediting organizations to carry out their accrediting functions.
<br />• To comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena.
<br />• To appropriate officials in connection with a health or
<br />safety emergency.
<br />• To a victim of an alleged perpetrator of a crime of violence or a non -
<br />forcible sex offense. The disclosure may only include the final results of
<br />the disciplinary proceeding with respect to that alleged crime or
<br />offense, regardless of the finding.
<br />• To the general public, the final results of a disciplinary proceeding if the
<br />school determines the student is an alleged perpetrator of a crime of
<br />violence or non -forcible sex offense, and the student has committed a
<br />violation of the school's rules or policies with respect to the allegation
<br />made against him or her.
<br />• To parents of a student regarding the student's violation of any Federal,
<br />State, or local law, or of any rule or policy of the school, governing the
<br />use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance if the school
<br />determines the student committed a disciplinary violation and the
<br />student is under the age of twenty-one.
<br />Except for disclosures to school officials, disclosures related to some judicial
<br />orders or lawfully issued subpoenas, disclosures of directory information,
<br />and disclosures to the student, FERPA regulations require the Institution to
<br />record the disclosure. Eligible students have a right to inspect and review the
<br />record of disclosures.
<br />Additionally, FERPA allows Concorde to disclose Information it has
<br />designated as "Directory Information." Concorde defines directory
<br />information as: the student's name, address(es), telephone number(s), e-
<br />mail address, birth date and place, program of study, dates of attendance,
<br />honors and awards, photographs and credential awarded. If a student does
<br />not want his or her directory information to be released to third parties
<br />without the student's consent, the student must present such a request in
<br />writing to the Academic Dean within 45 days of the student's enrollment or
<br />by such later date as the Institution may specify as acceptable. Under no
<br />circumstance may the student use the right to opt out to prevent the
<br />Institution from disclosing that student's name, electronic identifier, or
<br />Institutional e-mail address in a class in which the student is enrolled.
<br />Release of Personally Identifiable
<br />Information (PII)
<br />As of January 3, 2012, the U.S. Department of Education's FERPA regulations
<br />expanded the circumstances under which a student's education records and
<br />personally identifiable information (PII) contained in such records, Including
<br />his or her Social Security Number, grades, or other confidential information,
<br />may be accessed without his or her consent.
<br />• The U.S. Comptroller General, the U.S. Attorney General, the U.S.
<br />Secretary of Education, or State and local education authorities
<br />("Federal and State Authorities") may allow access to a student's
<br />records and PII without his or her consent to any third party designated
<br />by a Federal or State Authority to evaluate a Federal- or State -
<br />supported education program.
<br />• The evaluation may relate to any program that is"principally engaged
<br />in the provision of education," such as early childhood education and
<br />job training, as well as any program that is administered by an
<br />education agency or institution.
<br />• Federal and State Authorities may allow access to a student's education
<br />records and PII without the student's consent to researchers
<br />performing certain types of studies, in certain cases, even when
<br />Concorde objects to or does not request such research.
<br />• Federal and State Authorities must obtain certain use -restriction and
<br />data security promises from the entities that they authorize to receive a
<br />student's PHI, but the Federal and State Authorities need not maintain
<br />direct control over such entities.
<br />• With respect to Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems, State Authorities
<br />may collect, compile, permanently retain, and share, without the
<br />student's consent, PH from his or her education records, and they may
<br />track the student's participation in education and other programs by
<br />linking such PII to other personal information about him or her that
<br />they obtain from other federal or state data sources, including
<br />workforce development, unemployment insurance, child welfare,
<br />juvenile justice, military service, and migrant student records systems,
<br />Students With Disabilities Policy
<br />It is the policy of Concorde Career Colleges, Inc. (Campus), to abide by both
<br />the letter and spirit of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Its
<br />implementing regulation at 34 Code of Federal Regulations C.F.R., Part 104.
<br />Section 504 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability In programs and
<br />activities operated by recipients of federal financial assistance. Covered
<br />entities must accommodate students with reasonable academic adjustments
<br />and auxiliary aids and services that are necessary to afford an individual with
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