From Inside HigherEd: The U.S. Justice Department and nine college associations have filed briefs backing the University of Illinois in its attempt to overturn a judge’s ruling that documents requested by The Chicago Tribune are not covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Tribune requested the documents — which deal with applicants’ grades, test scores and parents…
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U. of I. disclosure appeal gets under way in federal court
Antonio Olivo reports: The University of Illinois on Wednesday filed its opening brief in an appeal to a federal court ruling that a privacy law governing financial aid does not bar the school from releasing information about hundreds of well-connected college applicants. In an ongoing legal dispute that stems from the Tribune’s 2009 “Clout Goes…
University of Illinois appeals privacy ruling
The Associated Press reports that U. Illinois will appeal a recent court ruling discussed previously on this blog: The University of Illinois has appealed a court decision that found the school was wrong to use a federal privacy law to withhold the names of college applicants involved in an admissions scandal. The university filed its…
U. of Ill. will appeal ruling that it must release names of applicants in admissions scandal
The Associated Press is reporting that the University of Illinois does plan to appeal a federal court order to release the names of students involved in an admissions scandal and filed for a stay on the judge’s order.