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What is a 3rd Party Service Provider

I was surprised at some of the answers to Quiz 1 in the FERPA class. What is a 3rd Party Service provider, and under what circumstances would they need to see a student's educational record?

A Third Party Service Provider could be the student's employer.  They would normally want to see the student's transcript(s) and certificate(s) because they are paying for the student to go through the program.

We have this occur quite a bit at our institution. Since we are a trade school, we have a large amount of students using tuition reimbursement paid by their employer. We require students to submit a form which allows us to share information with the third party (FERPA Release Form). We use it for a multitude of situations but we find that most students utilize the form for family. 

 

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