Re: confidentiality

[Beth Rapp Young <youngbr@email.uah.edu>]

Neal, someone will undoubtedly correct me if I'm wrong, but my
understanding is that _secret_ records are not legal.  If your
students can see their own records, you are ok.  Here, we give
faculty an exact copy of what we give students, so there is no
secrecy.  We don't have a "permission" box, for a lot of reasons, but
if students ask us not to send the copy to faculty, we don't send it.

The archives should contain a very useful discussion.  The issue was
also discussed in WLN a couple of times, I think.  And I believe
Glenda Conway gave a paper on this topic at the Southeast Writing
Center Association conference (am I right, Glenda?)

Beth Young

Dr. Beth Rapp Young
U of Alabama in Huntsville
YoungBR@email.uah.edu


On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Neal Lerner wrote:

> Folks, I know this topic has come up before when I wasn't paying attention,
> but my sloth-like tendencies bring me to pose a question here rather than
> to check the archives.  Anyway, a colleague was asking me about the
> legality of sharing with faculty members the notes tutors record after each
> tutoring session.  Is student's permission required?  Is it a violation of
> the Buckley Ammendment to share this information?  And does anyone use a
> simple means of obtaining students' permission, such as a yes/no box
> alongside "You can share this information with a faculty member"?  Thanks
> in advance.
> 
>         Neal Lerner
>         Mass. College of Pharmacy
>         nlerner@mcp.edu
> 
> 
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