Can colleges and universities share personally identifiable information, such as names, addresses, dates of birth, and institutional student IDs, in connection with research projects such as the CSP?
Some institutions have asked the CSP Center for Data Collection and Analysis (CDCA) for additional information relating to laws that may be relevant to the data collection effort, in particular, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). After legal analysis, the Foundation, in cooperation with CSP Investigators at Middlebury College and Northwestern University, has concluded that the CSP data collection effort is in compliance with these laws, provided that certain criteria are met. These criteria and an additional discussion of relevant laws and regulations are included in FAQs numbers 31 through 33 and in the CSP Resource Toolkit, under the link Selected Laws and Regulations Affecting the CSP Project.
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