美国大学系统很变态 (起码我这么认为), 打着私隐旗号,default是家长只能付费不能得到娃任何信息。According to FERPA:
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children’s education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from the education records. When a student turns 18 years old, or enters a postsecondary institution at any age, the rights under FERPA transfer from the parents to the student (“eligible student”).
所以我建议家有大学娃的,让娃签authorization paper来override the default. 另外,18岁开始medical record也不能告诉家长。总之,考虑签以下文件,不然可能就真的一无所知:
FERPA waiver Health Care proxy HIPPA release Durable Power of Attorney
如果没有legal paper, 看一下default university policy: