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FERPA Privacy Waiver Provisions

The FERPA Privacy Waiver is limited to five categories of information: Financial Aid, ResLife, Husky One-Card and Academic Information, Community Standards (The Student Code). This page explains exactly what you are disclosing when selecting these categories on the Add/Edit Designees page in Student Administration.


Note: Under this Waiver, University faculty cannot discuss academic information (e.g., your grades) with your designees.


On this page:
Financial Aid Services & Bursar Information
Residential Life Information
Husky One Card Information
Academic Information
Community Standards (The Student Code)

The Dean of Students and Student Health Services waivers are not included in this FERPA waiver process, however each office's respective waiver form is available by clicking the links provided (as below). Please complete and forward the form to each office for processing.
Dean of Students (.doc)
Health Services (.pdf)

 

Financial Aid Services & Bursar Information

Information in this category includes, but is not limited to:

  • Your fee bill balance, charges, debits, credits, and payments appearing on your account. Past due amounts and/or collection activity, payment plans, third party sponsorship, and 1098T information.
  • Pending or previous financial aid awards (including types and amounts), financial aid application data, document requests, processing status, eligibility, or disbursements.
  • Tuition and fee waivers, scholarship or sponsorship awards, refund or excess amounts, and their processing status.
  • University-maintained loan disbursements, loan billing and repayment history (including eligibility).
  • Health insurance waiver status.
  • Approved academic load (full- or part-time status only), withdrawal dates.
  • Questions regarding related service indicators.
  • Questions regarding a student’s financial aid or financial account record, including the student’s communication history with the Office of the Bursar and the Financial Aid Office.
  • Generic Health Services Charge Information including
    • Health Service Fee
    • Health Service Lab Fee
    • Health Service Misc Fee
    • Health Service Pharmacy
    • Health Svc Physical Therapy
    • Health Svc X-Ray
    no detail regarding the nature of Health Services provided will be disclosed.

Note: This category does not include employment records, registration, or other academic records.


Contact:
Office of the Bursar (http://www.bursar.uconn.edu)
Office of Student Financial Aid Services (http://www.financialaid.uconn.edu)

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Residential Life Information

Information in this category includes, but it is not limited to:

  • Financial Information pertaining to Residential Life matters (damage billing, credits, refunds, general billing, and charges information)
  • Lottery and other related information
  • Roommate concerns and related information
  • Judicial matters pertaining to Residential Life (prior history, incident reports)
  • Employment history and related matters.

Contact: Housing Services (http:/www./reslife.uconn.edu/)

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Husky One Card Information

Information in this category includes, but it is not limited to:

  • Husky Bucks transaction history, including balances, deposits, and other related information.
Contact: Husky One Card Office (http://www.onecard.uconn.edu)

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Academic Information

Information in this category includes but is not limited to the following

  • Student class schedule
  • Registration appointment information
  • Registration holds
  • Grades and gpa for the most recent term
  • Cumulative gpa

Contact: Office of the Registrar (http://www.registrar.uconn.edu)


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Community Standards (The Student Code)

Information in this category includes but is not limited to the following

  • Student conduct files (current cases, past history, incident reports), parental notification.

Contact: Dean of Students Office (http://www.DOS.uconn.edu)


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