The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) is a United States federal law codified at 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, with implementing regulations in title 34, part 99 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The regulations provide that educational agencies and institutions that receive funding under a program administered by the U. S. Department of Education must provide students with access to their education records, an opportunity to seek to have the records amended, and some control over the disclosure of information from the records. With several exceptions, schools must have a student’s consent prior to the disclosure of education records.

A few of the many exceptions are:

• Schools may disclose, without consent, “directory” information such as a student’s name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance.
• The disclosure is to parents, as defined in §99.3, of a dependent student, as defined in section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The term “dependent” means an individual over half of whose support, for the calendar year in which the taxable year of the taxpayer begins, was received from the taxpayer.

Registration occurs at the beginning of the fall and spring semesters and both summer sessions. Currently enrolled students should pre-register (select classes for the upcoming term) in My Falcon Landing, unless the student is a Freshman. All Freshman students will pre-register in the Student Success Center (Delany Building.) Registration is mandatory for all students (new and returning, both pre-registered and non pre-registered.) No student will complete Registration until their financial obligation to this institution is satisfied.