{"id":3095,"date":"2019-04-04T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=3095"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:28:12","slug":"what-is-ferpa","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/knowledge-base\/what-is-ferpa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is FERPA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/policy\/gen\/guid\/fpco\/ferpa\/index.html\">FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)<\/a>\u00a0is the federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all colleges that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education. Although FERPA does not directly apply to private organizations, FERPA affects what data schools can share with the Clearinghouse and how that data can be used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studentclearinghouse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MyHubTermsandConditions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">> Read Myhub Terms &amp; Conditions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)\u00a0is the federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[100],"ht-kb-tag":[108,106,109,110,107,104,105],"class_list":["post-3095","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-1-general-faqs","ht_kb_tag-correct","ht_kb_tag-data","ht_kb_tag-ferpa","ht_kb_tag-ferpa-block","ht_kb_tag-information-secure","ht_kb_tag-myhub","ht_kb_tag-national-student-clearinghouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/3095\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.studentclearinghouse.org\/myhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}