the tutee's privacy

["Noreen Lape" <LAPE_NOREEN@colstate.edu>]

I am currently involved in establishing a writing center at my 
university.  In one of our planning discussions, we thought about 
having tutors send brief reports about the tutoring sessions to the 
tutee's instructor.  We also talked about having a sign-in book that 
instructors could have access to if they wanted to see if a student 
had been receiving tutoring.   

Does anyone know if allowing the instructor to know about a student's 
tutoring session legally violates that student's privacy?  Is it 
common or not common practice to keep the tutee's 
instructor informed?

Noreen Lape
Department of Language and Literature
Columbus State University