FERPA - STUDENT EMPLOYEE RESPONSIBILITIES

Security and confidentiality are matters of concern to all offices and all persons who have access to office facilities.  The Office of the Registrar is the official repository for student academic records, folders, and other files for Sam Houston State University.  As a student employer, many offices are able to extend job opportunities and work experience to supplement students’ finances and education.  In so doing, the student employee is placed in a unique position of trust since a major responsibility of offices is the security and confidentiality of student records and files.  Since conduct either on or off the job could affect or threaten the security and confidentiality of this information, each student employee is expected to adhere to the following:

• No one may make or permit unauthorized use of any information in files maintained, stored, or processed by the office in which they are employed.
• No one is permitted to seek personal benefit or to allow others to benefit personally by knowledge of any confidential information which has come to them by virtue of their work assignment.
• No one is to exhibit or divulge the contents of any record or report to any person except in the conduct of their work assignment and in accordance with University policies and procedures.
• No one may knowingly include, or cause to be included, in any record or report a false, inaccurate, or misleading entry.  No one may knowingly expunge, or cause to be expunged, in any record or report a data entry.
• No official record or report, or copy thereof, may be removed from the office where it is maintained except in the performance of a person’s duties.
• No one is to aid, abet, or act in conspiracy with another to violate any part of this code.
• Any knowledge of a violation must be immediately reported to the person’s supervisor.