Re: the tutee's privacy

[Chari Norgard <NorgardC@jade.vic.uh.edu>]

I am not sure if allowing the instructor to see a student's tutoring record
violates a student's right to privacy, but I have been directing our
writing center for over 11 years now and we have always sent tutoring
records to instructors.  The tutors fill out the record, the student signs
it, and I put it in the faculty member's mailbox.  I have never had a
complaint from anyone.

Chari Norgard
Academic Center Director
University of Houston-Victoria
norgardc@jade.uh.vic.edu

At 04:11 PM 9/3/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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 
>
>