{"id":257306,"date":"2026-05-27T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/controversial-college-voting-study-partnership-dissolved-over-ferpa-privacy-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:25:16","slug":"controversial-college-voting-study-partnership-dissolved-over-ferpa-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/controversial-college-voting-study-partnership-dissolved-over-ferpa-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial college voting study partnership dissolved over FERPA privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversial college voting study partnership dissolved over FERPA privacy concerns<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-27 17:21:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.thecollegefix.com<\/a><\/p>\n

College students\u2019 personal data will no longer be handed over to a third-party vendor in what is being billed as a win for privacy rights and election integrity efforts.<\/p>\n

The National Student Clearinghouse recently announced it is terminating its partnership with Tufts University\u2019s National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement program, which is now the focus of an Education Department probe over concerns the study violates student privacy.<\/p>\n

As extensive reporting by The College Fix previously pointed out, the voting study facilitated personal student data to be shared from the National Student Clearhousing to a third-party vendor, which would \u201cde-identify\u201d the data before providing it to Tuft\u2019s for the voting study.<\/p>\n

But not only was there no mechanism to determine if the third-party vendor deleted the data, the shared information also likely violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, College Fix reporting showed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dissolution of the NSC and NSLVE partnership is in the best interest of universities, parents, and students. It represents an important step toward ensuring that sensitive student data is not exploited for political purposes,\u201d America First Policy Institute stated in a March 5 news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of higher education is to prepare students for the workforce, not to make them unwitting targets of political operations.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Tufts pointed out in a news release, the 1,000-plus institutions that participated in the study do so by \u201csigning a Participation Authorization Form that authorizes limited use of student data already held by the Clearinghouse, to be matched to publicly available voting records by a third-party vendor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a comprehensive de-identi\ufb01cation process conducted by the Clearinghouse, the data are returned to NSLVE for analysis and incorporated into its reports, which are then sent to authorized individuals at participating institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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