Williams College says it can't comment on allegations that a student's report of being raped was mishandled because of FERPAAfter The Williams Record published a woman’s account of the way the university handled a 2012 report that she had been sexually assaulted by a fellow student, students and alumni have responded by petitioning the liberal… Continue reading Williams College says it can’t comment on allegations that a student’s report of being raped was mishandled because of FERPA
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Daily Bruin editors criticize student judicial board's ruling concerning candidate interviews with the press
Editors at the University of California Los Angeles’ student newspaper are dissatisfied with a ruling from the undergraduate Judicial Board that sidestepped the issue of whether candidates can be punished for giving interviews to the press.
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Outgoing WRAS-FM General Manager Anastasia Zimitravich and current Program Director Josh Martin talk about a deal between Georgia State University and Georgia Public Broadcasting that gives daytime FM programming hours to professionals instead of students.Frank LoMonte: It’s a rough time to be in the world of college broadcasting. Station after station at colleges from Rice… Continue reading May 2014 podcast: Two student broadcasters discuss challenges facing college radio
School censorship elevates Mich. students' message to the national stage
Blocked by school censors from sharing a thoughtful discussion of mental-health issues in the pages of the Community High School student newspaper, two Ann Arbor, Mich., teens were forced instead to settle for The New York Times and NPR's "Weekend Edition."
Proving once again that censorship is gasoline on the flame of a powerful idea, journalists Madeline Halpert and Eva Rosenfeld talked with NPR's Scott Simon today about how they were prevented from publishing a column examining the effects of depression on teens and why it's so hard for them to talk about.
Halpert was one of several students who agreed, with written parental permission, to be named in a story confronting the stigma surrounding mental illness that can, with tragic consequences, deter people struggling with depression from seeking professional help.
Georgia attorney general's office withdraws motion that asked judge to order removal of public records from student's blog
The state attorney general’s office has withdrawn a motion that was asking a judge to order a student journalist to remove public records from his blog.
Georgia attorney general's office seeks judge's order to remove public documents
Attorneys for the state of Georgia have asked a judge to order a student journalist to remove from his blog documents that the state gave him through a public records request.
New Jersey school board will vote Monday whether to uphold principal's censorship
Once again, members of the Northern Highlands Regional school board are being asked to OK the publication of a story — censored by the student journalist’s principal — concerning grievances filed against the district’s superintendent.
WRAS-FM student radio staff, supporters continue protest
It's been a little over a week since the student radio staff at Georgia State University's radio station learned of a deal that gives the state's public broadcasting affiliate control over daytime programming hours on the WRAS analog FM signal. The protest against the agreement has grown steadily in the days since students were told. Here's a rundown of what's happened since we last wrote about the situation:
Markey-Hatch student privacy proposal fails to fix FERPA foolishness
A newly released draft Senate bill addressing concerns over the security of student data is, at best, a swing-and-a-miss at the larger problems afflicting federal privacy law. At worst, it's a damaging setback for the public's right to know.
U.S. Sens. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) released draft legislation Wednesday responding to widespread public alarm over a 2011 U.S. Department of Education rule that, in the view of critics, made it easier for schools and colleges to share identifiable student data with researchers.
The bill proposes updates to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the federal student privacy law, but does nothing to address the main problem afflicting FERPA: That its definition of confidential "education records" is grossly over-broad, enabling schools to conceal critical public-safety information or employee wrongdoing on bogus "student privacy" grounds.
UCLA student government candidates warned that interviews with Daily Bruin could lead to sanctions
The University of California Los Angeles’ student newspaper is challenging campus election rules that prompted three presidential candidates to withdraw from planned appearances on The Daily Bruin’s news radio show.