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16. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Who Is This Book For?
  8. Why “Bridges”?
  9. For Students: Some Important Definitions
  10. For Instructors: Some Important Considerations
  11. Getting In
    1. 1. Accreditation and Types of Institutions
    2. 2. International United States College Campuses
    3. 3. Study Abroad in the United States
    4. 4. College Fairs
    5. 5. Outreach Services
    6. 6. Community Serving Colleges and Universities
      1. American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities
      2. Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-Serving Institutions
      3. First-Generation Forward Institutions
      4. Hispanic-Serving Institutions
      5. Historically Black Colleges and Universities
      6. Online Institutions
      7. Veteran-Serving Institutions
      8. Women’s Colleges and Universities
    7. 7. College Rankings
    8. 8. Campus Visits
    9. 9. College Websites and Other Internet Resources
    10. 10. Applications
      1. Undergraduate School
      2. Graduate School
  12. Getting Through
    1. 11. Common Challenges
      1. General Problem Solving
      2. Money
      3. Warning About Predatory Loans
      4. Getting Involved
      5. Time Management
      6. Dormmates/Roommates
      7. So Many Questions–Whom to Ask?
      8. Goal Setting
    2. 12. Academic Advising
    3. 13. Credentials, Majors, and Requirements
    4. 14. Instructors and Professors
      1. Job Titles and Pronouns
      2. Office Hours
      3. Letters of Recommendation
    5. 15. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity
    6. 16. Rights and Responsibilities
    7. 17. More Quotes From the Field
  13. Appendix
    1. 18. Twenty Academic Jargon Words You Might Need to Know
    2. 19. Grammar for Composition Resources and Review
      1. Components of a Sentence
      2. Subjects
      3. Prepositional Phrases
      4. Verbs
      5. Sentence Structure
      6. Collective Nouns
      7. Sentence Combining: Conjunctive Adverbs
      8. Sentence Combining: Subordination
      9. Sentence Combining: Run-on Sentences
      10. Parallelism
      11. Good Paragraphs
      12. Topic Sentences
      13. Supporting Sentences
      14. Concluding Sentences
      15. Transitions
      16. Academic Paragraphs
      17. Thesis Statements
      18. Audience
      19. Introduction Paragraphs
      20. Body Paragraphs
      21. Conclusion Paragraphs
    3. 20. Academic Situations and Scripts
      1. In Emails
      2. In the Classroom
      3. In Office Hours
    4. 21. Pop Culture Index
      1. Best African American Films
      2. Best Asian American Films
      3. Best International Feature Film Winners
      4. Best Hispanic and Latinx American Films
      5. The EGOT List
      6. The Literary List
      7. The Kennedy Center Honor List
      8. The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
  14. About the Author

16. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

There are federal laws that protect the rights of students, staff, and faculty members of United States colleges and universities. These are your barriers, your safeguards, and your patrol officers helping you safely across the bridge toward graduation. Here are some of the most important terms and resources you should know about:

•FERPA

∘The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that gives parents or legal guardians the right to access their child’s education records. These rights include having records corrected/changed when needed as well as controlling what kinds of personally identifiable information can be shared. These records include information such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student course schedules, health records (at the K-12 level), financial information (at the college or university level), and student discipline files. However, once a child turns eighteen years old or once a child of any age enters a college or university, parents no longer have these rights; only the student will have access to their own education records. Students can often submit an educational release of records form that lists specific people (including their parents) who are allowed to access their information. However, submitting this form is optional; a university student’s information is private by default.

•Office of Civil Rights

∘The United States Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has many responsibilities to protect students. Four of the most critical areas in which the OCR protects students include discrimination against race/color/national origin, against a person’s sex, against people with disabilities, and against people of certain ages. In schools, libraries, museums, or other educational programs that receive federal funding, discriminating against any of these groups is against federal civil rights laws. Key issue areas include recruitment, admissions, counseling, financial aid, athletics, discipline, and employment. These key issue areas are identified using the following terms:

•Title VI, or “Title Six”: Title VI specific key issue areas include racial harassment, school segregation, and denial of language services to English learners.

•Title IX, or “Title Nine”: Title IX specific key issue areas include sex-based harassment, failure to provide equal opportunity in athletics, discrimination in a school’s science/technology/engineering/math (STEM) courses and programs, discrimination against pregnant and parenting students, and single-sex education.

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