Legal & Privacy

TLDR: FERPA and AI compliance in higher education sits at an underexamined intersection. FERPA was written for a paper-records world and last meaningfully amended in 2008. AI agents reading PDFs, combining classifications, shaping institutional decisions, and generating new records present four edge cases the statute does not directly address. This piece walks through each edge case using a real Bettera-built Student Agent processing a medical certificate as the worked exampl