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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 15:53:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Graduate School <GRADSCH@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Subject: grad_school_news: Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy
Act (FERPA)
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IF YOU ARE A GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOW (GTF)
- PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE -
You will be receiving a copy of the following message in your mailbox within the next day or two.
Please read it carefully and respond as soon as possible.
-Marian Friestad, Dean
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The Graduate School has been advised that in order to be in compliance
with the Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) we must
obtain explicit permission from each GTF before we can release information
to the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF). FERPA is a federal
law that was adopted to protect students' privacy and to allow students
access to their records. Under FERPA every student has the right to keep
information about themselves private from organizations outside the University.
Therefore, you may decide whether or not the Graduate School can release
information about you to the GTFF.
The main reason that the GTFF needs this information is in order to
process your health insurance benefits. Please complete the form provided
below, and return this notice to the Graduate School, 125 Chapman Hall
as soon as possible. If you have already completed such a form (e.g., on
a new Spring Term contract), you can ignore this message. You must indicate
by checking one of the boxes below whether or not you authorize the University
of Oregon to release information (name, ID number, and terms of employment)
to the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF). The GTFF needs this
information to verify access to health insurance benefits. Your authorization
to release information to the GTFF will remain in effect for the duration
of your appointment as a GTF.
________ Yes, I authorize the University of Oregon to release this information to the GTFF.
________ No, I do not authorize the University of Oregon to release
this information to the GTFF.
Student ID# ___________________ Department _____________________
Name (please print clearly) ______________________________________
Signature _____________________________________________________
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