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By Heather Zimar, Managing Editor, Journals and Publications, AACRAO
College & University (C&U) concluded its “50 Years of FERPA” series with a special interview in the fall issue with LeRoy Rooker, who recently retired as Senior Fellow in AACRAO’s Research & Policy Division. Rooker is the nation’s leading authority on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a comprehensive federal law that provides privacy protections for student education records.
The interview, conducted by AACRAO’s Assistant Director of Public Policy Michael Bilfinger, highlights Rooker’s journey from 21 years as Director of the Department of Education’s Family Policy Compliance Office (FPCO) to Senior Fellow at AACRAO and now AACRAO FERPA Consultant.
When asked what he enjoyed about working in higher education, he said: “It’s pretty consistent; it’s the people. It’s the great people. And that goes for when I started and still today.”
The “50 Years of FERPA” series also featured the following articles:
How to Adopt the “FERPA Perspective” When Evaluating Disclosures of Student Records by Margo Landy
Putting the Fun in FERPA: Providing Training and Resources Geared to Adult Learners by Rebecca L. Hapes, Venesa Heidick, and Cathy Littleton
Previous articles in the series included:
Why FERPA No Longer Freaks Me Out by Helen B. Garrett
Don’t fear FERPA, it is FUNdamental: An Interview with Steven J. McDonald by Heather Abbott
Educational Approaches to FERPA Incident Response by Rebecca L. Hapes, Venesa Heidick, and Cathy Littleton
Promoting FERPA in HBCU Environments: The Registrar's Role by Harrison P. Johnson
If You Build It, They Will Come: The University of Iowa’s FERPA Team by Sara Sullivan, Julie Fell, Kathryn Stoltenberg, and Jessica Alberhasky
The fall issue of C&U also featured articles on topics including transfer commuter students and their sense of belonging, test-optional policies and their impact on the proportion of racial groups at selective institutions in the United States, and discussion-based applications, among others.
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