DigiPen Institute of Technology Europe-Bilbao reserves for students’ certain rights with respect to their education records. These rights are:
- The right to inspect and review the student’s education records within 45 days after the day the Institute receives a request for access. A student should submit to the Office of the Administration, Dean, or head of the academic department a written request that identifies the record(s) the student wishes to inspect. The Institute official will make arrangements for access and notify the student of the time and place where the records may be inspected. If the records are not maintained by the Institute official to whom the request was submitted, that official shall advise the student of the correct official to whom the request should be addressed.
- The right to request the amendment of the student’s education records that the student believes is inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the student’s privacy rights.
- A student who wishes to ask the school to amend a record should write to the school official responsible for the record, clearly identify the part of the record the student wants changed, and specify why it should be changed.
- If the Institute decides not to amend the record as requested, the Institute will notify the student in writing of the decision and the student’s right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the student when notified of the right to a hearing.
- The right to provide written consent before the Institute discloses personally identifiable information (PII) from the student’s education records.
- The Institute discloses education records without a student’s prior written consent for disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is typically includes a person employed by the Institute in an administrative, supervisory, academic, research, or support staff position (including law enforcement unit personnel and health staff); a person serving on the Board of Trustees; or a student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee. A school official also may include a volunteer or contractor outside of the Institute who performs an institutional service of function for which the school would otherwise use its own employees and who is under the direct control of the school with respect to the use and maintenance of PII from education records, such as an attorney, auditor, or collection agent or a student volunteering to assist another school official in performing his or her tasks. A school official typically has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibilities for the Institute.