Student academic information is available online via Self Service (sss.sage.edu). In Self Service visit the Student Planning module to see degree requirements (My Progress) and class schedule/registration information (Plan & Schedule).

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

  • FERPA Authorization Form: This form completed by the Student gives Russell Sage College consent to disclose academic information to the authorized individual(s).

Annually, Russell Sage College informs students of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) of 1974, as amended. This Act, with which the institution intends to comply fully, was designated to protect the privacy of educational records.

As of January 3, 2012, the U.S. Department of Education’s FERPA regulations expand the circumstances under which your education records and personally identifiable information (PII) contained in such records – including your Social Security Number, grades, or other private information – may be accessed without your consent. First, the U.S. Comptroller General, the U.S. Attorney General, the U.S. Secretary of Education, or state and local education authorities (“Federal and State Authorities”) may allow access to your records and PII without your consent to any third party designated by a Federal or State Authority to evaluate a federal- or state-supported education program.

The evaluation may relate to any program that is “principally engaged in the provision of education,” such as early childhood education and job training, as well as any program that is administered by an education agency or institution. Second, Federal and State Authorities may allow access to your education records and PII without your consent to researchers performing certain types of studies, in certain cases even when we object to or do not request such research. Federal and State Authorities must obtain certain use-restriction and data security promises from the entities that they authorize to receive your PII, but the authorities need not maintain direct control over such entities.

In addition, in connection with Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems, State Authorities may collect, compile, permanently retain, and share without your consent PII from your education records, and they may track your participation in education and other programs by linking such PII to other personal information about you that they obtain from other Federal or State data sources, including workforce development, unemployment insurance, child welfare, juvenile justice, military service, and migrant student records systems.

Forms

FERPA Authorization Form: This form gives Russell Sage College consent to disclose academic information to the authorized individual(s).

What Is Considered Directory Information?

The following is considered “Directory Information” at Russell Sage College and may be made available to the general public unless the student notifies the Registrar’s Office in writing.

Directory information is as follows:

  • Student’s name
  • Address
  • Phone listing
  • Email address
  • Major field of study
  • Participation in officially recognized activities and sports
  • Weight and height of members of athletic teams
  • Dates of attendance, degrees and awards received
  • Most recent previous educational agency attended


Students should carefully consider the consequences of withholding such Directory Information.

Should you decide to inform Russell Sage College not to release any of this information, any requests for such information from Russell Sage College would be refused. 

Student groups and organizations will not be able to contact you, your name would not be listed in the student directory, your name will not appear on Dean’s lists or in the Commencement program, nor will Russell Sage College be able to verify that you attend here. 

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