All student, faculty, and staff personal and academic information
is private and confidential, and is protected by various state and
federal laws. Buffalo State College employees must, by law,
protect the privacy of this information.
Failure to protect personal and academic information may result in
legal action against offending employees. Employees accused of
failure to protect confidential information that results in harm
to an individual may not be covered by the Public Officer's Law,
and therefore not defended by New York State.
Examples of personal information that must be kept confidential:
Social Security number, health information, disability status,
etc. Faculty and staff must ensure that information contained on
the employee change form is kept confidential.
Examples of academic information that must be kept confidential:
grades, class schedules, student ID numbers, etc. Faculty and staff
members may not post test scores or grades using any portion of a
student's name, Social Security number, or student ID number.
Faculty and staff must refrain from providing students' parents
with information related to their student's academic performance
or other personal information, unless given permission to do so by
the student.
For more information:
State and Federal Laws:
Questions regarding privacy of the employee change form,
employee contracts, official employee files, etc.:
Susan Earshen, associate vice president, Human Resource
Management, ext. 3042
Questions regarding privacy of student information and FERPA:
Mark Bausili, registrar, ext. 4907
Questions regarding health information and HIPAA:
Rock Doyle, assistant director, medical systems, Weigel Health
Center, ext. 6711
Questions regarding legal liability and any legal action against
the college or an employee:
James Thor, comptroller, ext. 4312
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Source: Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 4, September 11,
2008
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