Foley Hoag writes: As colleges and universities know, higher education institutions have a duty to protect the confidentiality of student records, codified in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. When such documents are requested in the course of litigation, FERPA dictates the processes and standards a school must apply in…
Category: Youth & Schools
Canada’s Attempt to Regulate Sexual Content Online Ignores Technical and Historical Realities
Daly Barnett writes: Canadian Senate Bill S-203, AKA the “Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act,” is another woefully misguided proposal aimed at regulating sexual content online. To say the least, this bill fails to understand how the internet functions and would be seriously damaging to online expression and privacy. It’s bad in a…
Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose With Students’ Data
Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds and Catherine McGowan write: In 2018, Rutgers University made a move that hundreds of other universities before it had made: It switched its online learning platform from Sakai—a free, community-sourced system—to Canvas, which is owned by a company called Instructure. The switch was significant: Now the university was paying hundreds of…
U. of Illinois student dismissed for failing to comply with Covid-19 testing
Brice Bement reports: “I was not testing because I had kidney problems and I was scared of getting Covid-19,” Antonio Ruiz, dismissed from the University of Illinois, said. That’s the emotional response from one former student at the U of I. He was dismissed for failing to comply with Covid-19 testing. He’s the second student…