Student Handbook - Marymount University

equirements of FERPA. The name and address of
the office that administers FERPA is
Family Policy Compliance Office
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-4605
Marymount designates the following information
contained in students’ education records as “directory
information.” Directory information may be disclosed
by the university without the student’s prior consent,
pursuant to the provisions of the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA). However,
the university is not required to disclose directory
information and, therefore, carefully evaluates requests
for information. At Marymount University, directory
information includes the student’s name, address,
telephone number, email address, date and place of
birth, major field of study, dates of attendance, grade
level, enrollment status (undergraduate or graduate; full
time or part time), participation in officially recognized
activities or sports, height and weight of student
athletes, degrees, honors (including Dean’s List) and
awards received, and the most recent educational
agency or institution attended.
Currently enrolled students may withhold disclosure
of directory information under FERPA. To withhold
disclosure, students must meet with the university
registrar. Marymount University assumes that failure
on the part of any student to specifically restrict the
disclosure of directory information indicates individual
approval for disclosure. Former students may not
place a new request to restrict disclosure of directory
information on their education records, but they may
request removal of a previous request for nondisclosure.
Marymount University may also disclose personally
identifiable information from education records, without
consent, to appropriate parties, including parents of an
eligible student, in connection with a health or safety
emergency.
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Intellectual
Property
Policy
“Intellectual property” refers to publications, inventions,
artistic works, and other products of the intellect
and imagination. Such materials can be copyrighted,
patented, or trademarked and in some cases have the
potential to generate a profit. Faculty, staff, students,
and others affiliated with universities often produce
intellectual property.
Marymount has developed an Intellectual Property Policy
to clarify the ownership of various kinds of intellectual
property produced by persons affiliated with the
university. The policy states that Marymount students
own the intellectual property rights to academic products
that they create in connection with their courses. This
includes exam answers, research papers, presentations,
theses, artwork, and similar items. However, students
who are hired to assist faculty or staff members with
research or other projects are considered university
employees; any intellectual property resulting from their
employment belongs to the faculty member and/or
to Marymount University, depending upon the specific
situation.
Marymount’s Intellectual Property Policy also states that
students enrolled in a course have the right to take
class notes for their own personal use and to share
those notes with other students for legitimate academic
purposes; however, notes from, or recordings of, a course
may not be taken or disseminated for commercial
purposes unless approved by the instructor. The complete
policy is available online at www.marymount.edu/policies.
Copyright at
Marymount
University
Copyright law, an area of intellectual property law, exists to
balance the property interests of authors and their creative
and intellectual works and the rights of the public. The
law allows authors to control the use and distribution of
their works and to determine how others may or may not