3.5 Other Equity Resources
Know Your Rights
One of the most impactful equitable practices on a college campus is the open discussion of student rights. To that end, we are including information relevant to student educational rights in this section of this chapter. We begin with information about FERPA as it relates to on-campus and CCP students before providing a list of links to more information on the college’s website.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
FERPA grants students certain rights with respect to their education records, including the right to inspect their education records, request an amendment of the records that the student believes are inaccurate, and the right to control disclosures of their records except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent.
It is important to note that all rights to access move to the student when that student is in a post-secondary education institution; parents, spouses, and significant others have no inherent right to access to student educational records.
Note for CCP/Early College Students: If the student is under 18, and financially dependent (as evidenced by federal tax returns), the parents still retain the rights under FERPA at the high school and may inspect and review any records sent by the postsecondary institution to the high school.
The following links contain additional information:
United States Department of Education Student Privacy Policy
U.S. Department of Education FERPA Guide
Administrative Withdrawals
Students with extenuating, documented circumstances may be eligible for an administrative withdrawal.
Other Student Resources
Additional Resources about Equity
- Education Alliance at Brown University (culturally responsive teaching, equity, etc.)
- Race Forward (focus on racial equity and justice)
- NEA (equity framework)
- NACE on Equity
- LCCC’s Equity webpage contains links to various resources for teaching equity in the classroom
- Teaching tolerance: Loretta J. Ross’s “Speaking Up without Tearing Down”
- LCCC’s 2021 Equity Progress Update
- LCCC’s Student Resources
Creative Commons Attributions
This chapter was edited by Karin Hooks, Donna Hunt, Kim Karshner, and Amy Scott-Douglass. Our appreciation to Dr. Kei Graves, Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio, for sharing his guidelines and classroom agreement and allowing us to modify them in this chapter. We are also grateful for his input as the chapter took shape and for his feedback on our work in progress.
Chapter 3 contains material from Identity, Diversity and Community by Lori Harrison, Eri McCann-Gillick, Kizzy Massey, and Alanna Piek, which is licensed under the Creative Common Attribution 4.0 International License. It also contains material from Tara Montague’s “Focusing in on Audience as a Tool,” which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
