12.8 Access to Student Academic Records
Academic records of students are ultimately the property of the university; it is the responsibility of the university to establish overall university policy in this area. The Policy on Access to Student Academic Records establishes university-wide aims, objectives, criteria, and procedures that apply to the academic records of students.
The policy ensures that students, alumni, and former students are allowed as great a degree of access to their own academic records as is academically justifiable and administratively feasible. A student’s right to privacy in relation to his or her academic records is safeguarded as far as both internal university access and external public access are concerned. The policy calls for basic university-wide consistency in the kinds of information collected, recorded, filed and made available.