The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires that Riverland Community College, with certain exceptions, obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child's education records. However, Riverland Community College may disclose appropriately designate "directory information" without written consent, unless you have advised the college to the contrary in accordance with college procedures. The primary purpose of directory information is to allow the college to include this type of information from your education records in certain school publications. Examples include:

• A playbill, showing student's role in a drama production
• Honor roll or other recognition lists
• Graduation programs; and
• Sports activity sheets, such as for wrestling, showing weight and height of team members.

Directory information, which is information that is generally not considered harmful or an invasion of privacy is released, can also be disclosed to outside organizations without a student's prior written consent.

If you do not want the college to disclose directory information from your education records without your prior written consent, you must notify the college in writing. Riverland has designated the following information as directory information:

• Student's name
• Participation in officially recognized activities and sports
• Weight and height of members of athletic teams
• Degrees, honors, and awards received
• Major field of study
• Dates of attendance
• The most recent educational agency or institution attended
• Student status (full time/part-time)
• Student photo

You may request that this information be designated "non-directory information" by completing a request form in any Riverland Student Service Center. If you choose to have this information designated "non-directory information" by the College, the College will not release this information as "public" information about you. However, the College may still be required to release this information under certain circumstances. For more information about the release of your student information, please contact the College Registrar.