Law / United States / 
Pennsylvania
Community college student records: confidentiality standards and student access to files
In force since .
A sensitive categories rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Governance, Data subject rights
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- If you are a community college, maintain academic records for students (section 35.27).
- Define appropriate standards of confidentiality for student records in your college policies and your college catalog and administer them accordingly (section 35.27).
- Grant students the right to access, under the requirements of law, their respective files (section 35.27).
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What record it asks for
Logging duty
Section 35.27 requires academic records for students and confidentiality standards for them. It names no log, no retention period and no reader of a record other than the student.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Section 35.27 of Title 22 of the Pennsylvania Code provides that academic records shall be maintained for students. Section 31.1(b) of Title 22 identifies Chapter 35 as the chapter relating to community colleges. Section 35.3 of Title 22 defines a college, for the chapter, as a locally sponsored public college or technical institute established and operated in accordance with the provisions of the act.
Appropriate standards of confidentiality for the records shall be defined in the college policies and the college catalog and shall be administered accordingly. Students shall be granted the right to access, under the requirements of law, to their respective files. The current text of the section took effect .
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