Student and Family Information

You may restrict your directory information at any time. Request a restriction on the release of your directory information using the secure link below. The restriction remains in place following graduation or otherwise leaving the university until you ask to remove it. If you need assistance, please email registrar@purdue.edu.

Please note: Once your record has been made confidential, no information can be shared without your written consent. To all inquiries, we’ll provide the following response, “We have no information on this individual.” This may be problematic when potential employers or other parties make inquiries.

You may remove the restriction on your directory information at any time using the secure link below. If you need assistance, please email registrar@purdue.edu.

You have the right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education. We take our responsibility in protecting your academic records very seriously. This complaint may result in the loss of federal funding for financial aid and educational grants for the university and the filing of civil litigation.

Action to terminate funding is generally taken only if compliance cannot be secured by voluntary means.

Yes. However, the public posting of grades using your name, Purdue ID or Social Security number is a violation of FERPA. Using an assigned random number known only by you and the instructor is an appropriate way to post grades. Even then, the order of posting should be randomized.

Statements made in a letter of recommendation that come from the individual’s own observations or knowledge don’t require a written release. However, if personally identifiable information obtained from your education records are included in the letter, such as grades, GPA, etc., then the individual is required to obtain a signed release from you which specifies the records that may be shared, the purpose and whom the records can be shared.

Since the letter of recommendation would be part of your education record, you have the right to read it — unless you’ve waived the right of access.

We may share information from your education record without consent if there is a serious health or safety concern. If the university determines there is a clear and significant threat to you or others, it may release relevant information to people who need it to help protect those involved — such as parents, law enforcement or medical personnel.

This exception is used only when necessary to address a genuine health or safety emergency.

When a student reaches the age of 18 or enrolls at a post-secondary institution, such as a college or university, at any age, FERPA rights transfer from the parent to the student.

Parents and legal guardians may obtain non-directory information (grades, GPA, etc.) at the discretion of the university if their student is a dependent under federal tax law.

You can grant parents, legal guardians and other trusted individuals access to specific information. This permission to act as your representative is called a proxy, which you manage in your myPurdue portal using the Proxy Management tool located on your Personal Information card. You control who has access, what information may be viewed and any changes to proxy access. Examples of information you may grant access to would be final grades, registration and your class schedule.

A proxy is only granted access to view information — not make any updates on your behalf.

Using the Proxy Management tool, complete the profile for your proxy and grant access to select information by checking or unchecking the boxes under the Authorizations section. A valid email is required to create a proxy account and it will serve as the username. Your proxy will receive two emails — one with a temporary password and the other containing the link to complete the authentication process.

Once a new proxy is successfully added, they’ll display in your proxy list. You can view the history of access and a communication log of emails sent to your proxy. If a message has been sent containing a URL with an expiration date that has passed or the proxy needs access to an email again, you may also resend messages under the Communications tab.

Yes, multiple students can grant access to a proxy using the same email address. This is particularly useful in the case of siblings who attend Purdue.

Each student who grants proxy access to an email address has complete control over the information that the proxy can access, including start and stop dates.

On the Proxy Access Portal homepage, each student will be listed individually with a drop-down menu to select the authorized page(s) to view.

Ideally, no. However, if parents share an email address and a student wishes to grant proxy access to both using that address, the student can do so. If this is how the student wishes to set it up, we ask that, when completing the first-name field, the student enters both first names (example: Mary and David). In the relationship description field, enter “parents” or “mom and dad” so that it is clear to any administrator reviewing the permissions that this e-mail address is for more than one person.

No, there is no automatic notification sent to the proxy when a change is made to authorization access.

To log in as a proxy, please use the myPurdue link below. Enter your email address and the password created during the authentication process.

On the Proxy Access Portal homepage, select the information you’d like to view from the drop-down menu. A browser window will launch allowing you to view, but not make changes, to the information. Select the Purdue logo at the top of the page to return to the homepage.

If you would like to make changes to your name, email address or password, select Proxy Personal Information from the homepage.

To exit the portal, select the person icon in the upper right-hand corner to access the Sign Out button.

A passphrase is a unique code word or phrase that may be assigned by you to each proxy you add. The proxy will use their passphrase when calling university departments for assistance regarding the information they have been authorized to view. University administrators will validate these passphrases and the proxy’s access before speaking with the proxy to protect your rights. If the proxy hasn’t been granted access, the information cannot be discussed.