Education Dept. wants all collage/uni. students SS# and other info

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8331-2005Mar28.html


A proposal by the Education Department would force every college and university in America to report all their students' Social Security numbers and other information about each individual -- including credits earned, degree plan, race and ethnicity, and grants and loans received -- to a national databank. The government will record every student, regardless of whether he or she receives federal aid, in the databank.

The government's plan is to track students individually and in full detail as they complete their post-secondary education. The threat to our students' privacy is of grave concern, and the government has not satisfactorily explained why it wants to collect individual information.

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Under the proposal that will soon be submitted to Congress, instead of aggregate statistics, colleges and universities would be required to feed data on each student to the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics. Should an institution refuse, the government could take away federal grants, loans and work-study funds from every student at the college, a penalty that would fall on students in need while leaving more affluent students unaffected.

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The potential for abuse of power and violation of civil liberties is immense. The database would begin with 15 million-plus records of students in the first year and grow. These student records would be held by the federal government for at least the life of the student.
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they are murdering our colleges and universities

while we watch

watching america being murdered

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Sorry but I don't see a big problem here

Students receiving federally insured loans have already given this info to the govt.

I am a certified teacher and the fed dept of ed has had my private info for 25 years now and nothing bad has happened.

I understand your concern about privacy but I gave up worrying about who had my SS number a long time ago.

[MountainLaurel]

4. This seems to be something above and beyond

Here's an editorial in today's WP from a college president:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8331-2005Mar28.html

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Good points

I get it now. Thanks for posting.

[HockeyMom]

2. Couple of Apps for College

my daughter applied to wanted know her race and religion. She refused to answer those and put down none of your business.

[HereSince1628]

3. This is total information awareness in sheeps clothing

There is really nothing to prevent one branch of government from sharing information with another.

Government agencies and gov't contractors have regularly mishandled personal records.