Cornell Expels and Fines Student for Not Disclosing Community College Attendance

[bricabrac]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why they would care about this in the slightest.

I agree. I wonder if they are using the separate incident as a means to establish a pattern/history of dishonesty. Who knows with these legal matters. They are really coming down hard on this girl; there must be more to it that has not yet been disclosed or perhaps cannot be proven.

[clep3705]

Are there any disadvantages to a FERPA block? I had a privacy restriction added to my student records before FERPA was passed. I removed it because it made certain administrative tasks more difficult.

[cookderosa]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why they would care about this in the slightest.

Exactly, there's a reason...we are probably not privy to the whole story.

[videogamesrock]

Are there any disadvantages to a FERPA block? I had a privacy restriction added to my student records before FERPA was passed. I removed it because it made certain administrative tasks more difficult.

The disadvantage would be making student records harder to track in a single place of record. I am huge on privacy, so I do not like that a school or employees can track my academic history prior and after enrollment.

[cookderosa]

The disadvantage would be making student records harder to track in a single place of record. I am huge on privacy, so I do not like that a school or employees can track my academic history prior and after enrollment.

I went to the clearinghouse website, they advertise in big letters that they are FERPA compliant (which means they have figured out a work-around).

[videogamesrock]

I went to the clearinghouse website, they advertise in big letters that they are FERPA compliant (which means they have figured out a work-around).

They are FERPA compliant because they are a partner of the school. NSC also states you can opt-out of their database by notifying your school. According to NSC it is called a FERPA block. I don't feel comfortable having my info so easily accessible.

[janedoe]

Unfortunately it doesn't work like a credit report. They use NSC to see where you have prior enrollment and if you received any degrees. They can also track future enrollment to see if you wound up graduating somewhere else for marketing purposes. It's best to request a FERPA block at all institutions where your information will purge from NSC database in about 6 weeks.

Ive never heard of a students information being purged form NSC database. But I would be interested to where it says that.


From what I've gathered over the past months, NSC is FERPA compliant to a certain extent. You can place as many FERPA blocks on all the previous institutions which will remove them from being public information, but thats just about it. FERPA block does not trump financial aid, and financial aid departments utilize the NSC in order to request financial aid transcripts from other institutions, as well as due diligence. While the admissions office may not know your attended several previous schools not listed on the application, you can rest assure the financial aid office will find out. When the financial aid office discovers this, you most likely bet that they will notify the admissions department.

Law schools and a lot of major business schools also check NSC, many times they hire private companies for the MBA programs. A requirement into theses programs is that you sign a FERPA waiver, in which the original FERPA blocks become nullified.



I believe there were also some discrepancies about her transcripts with forged grades being involved, which also adds on negatively to her case. But none the less, the punishment was over top.

[videogamesrock]

http://www.studentclearinghouse.org/file...rivacy.pdf

Here is privacy information from NSC.

[jawbreakingrr]

Why would anyone not want to disclose certain schools they have attended? Poor grades / GPA? or outstanding balances?

[clep3705]

Those are all reasons for not wanting to disclose. For a rare few, not disclosing all schools is a very good idea. There is a certain individual who has been ridiculed here and elsewhere for having too many degrees. People with multiple degrees might want to list fewer schools so that they don't look like that guy or appear to be a professional student.

For the person who had a bad start a long time ago, tossing a few old courses and beginning a new, fresh academic career might be desirable. What about the 18 year old kid who enrolls in college, flunks out, joins the Army, fights in Afghanistan, retires, and decides to start over at age 45? If he or she doesn't want to report the first college experience, it's fine with me. It's unlikely that a mature, successful student would have ancient records held against them, but it seems to me like it should be the student's choice on how it should be handled, not some university bureaucrat.