Protection of Student Records

It is the policy of Madison Area Technical College to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. Section 1232g. Notice is hereby given to Madison Area Technical College students as follows:

1. It is the intention of Madison Area Technical College to fully comply with provisions of the above referenced federal law. The administrative procedures to implement compliance may be reviewed during normal business hours in the following campus location: Enrollment Center, Truax Campus.
2. This law permits the college to make public certain “directory” information about students. It is the intention of the college to do so, as may be appropriate to the normal course of college business and operations. The following information is regarded to be directory type, and some or all of it may be made public: student name, major field of study (program), dates of attendance (by term), enrollment status (full- or part-time), degrees and awards received, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams and email address.

FERPA Annual Student Notification (PDF, 25KB)

Any student objecting to his/her directory information being made public must file a Request To Withhold Student Information form with the Enrollment Center, Madison Area Technical College, 3550 Anderson Street, Madison, WI 53704.

In accordance with this act, students have the right to inspect, review and challenge the contents of their education records and to request corrections to inaccurate or misleading data contained in their records.

FERPA is not intended to provide a process to be used to question substantive judgments that are correctly recorded. The rights of challenge are not intended to allow students to contest, for example, a grade in a course.