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Families Handbook
2025-2026
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Conflict Education & Student Accountability
To protect the privacy of students, educational records are considered
confidential under a federal law called the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA is a federal law that protects the privacy of
student education records. While FERPA gives parents certain rights with
respect to their student’s education records, these rights transfer to the
student when they reach the age of 18 or attend a college or university.
Website: students.gwu.edu/cesa
Email: cesa@gwu.edu
Phone Number: 202-994-6757
GW abides by the federal government’s FERPA policy, which requires
the university to protect the privacy of your student’s educational record.
This means staff and faculty can only talk to students, and not a parent,
guardian, or other family member, about your student’s classes, grades,
financial aid, etc. If a student would like to give consent to allow a staff or
faculty member to talk to a family member about their educational records,
they need to fill out a FERPA/Student Consent Release Form, which can be
found by visiting this link, registrar.gwu.edu/forms.
Note: for most GW records, this form can be completed at any time while a
student is enrolled at GW.
• Students’ right to speech and expression https://freeexpression.gwu.edu
• Students’ right to be free from prohibited discrimination https://compliance.gwu.edu/reporting
• What is permitted and prohibited for everything from marijuana use to
academic citations – Know the Codes.
https://students.gwu.edu/cesa
Office of the Registrar
The Office of the Registrar provides the best possible service to all
members of the GW community. The office maintains academic records
from enrollment through graduation and offers a wide range of services
in the areas of classroom scheduling, enrollment verification, registration,
requirements tracking, transcripts, and degree conferral. We support
the university’s mission to promote lifelong learning by administering
the various academic policies of the university and providing support to
students, faculty, administrators, and alumni. For more information, visit
registrar.gwu.edu or call 202-994-4900.
Before your student becomes a GW community member, you may want to
know what GW expects of your student and what your student can expect
from GW.
We thank you for your assistance as we seek to hold students to the highest
of standards – not just for their own personal security and success, but to
protect the value and credibility of the GW degree. We invite you to learn
more about Conflict Education & Student Accountability, the educational
and conflict management resources we provide the community, and the
policies and procedures GW has in place to help ensure academic and
non-academic communal accountability. Please do not hesitate to contact
Conflict Education & Student Accountability with any questions or concerns.
Policies Regarding Alcohol and Illegal Drugs
To maintain an environment that is consistent with the University’s
educational focus, GW complies with all federal, state, and local laws and
policies, including the policies of Code of Student Conduct, on the use
of alcohol and other drugs by its students. In Washington, D.C., it’s illegal
for anyone under 21 to consume alcohol or purchase alcohol. Marijuana
is prohibited on GW’s campus, regardless of age or circumstances of the
user.
Each member of the GW community should commit to upholding our
community expectations. Unless otherwisestated by law, individuals
retain responsibility for their actions at all times, regardless of their mental
or physical state, even if altered by alcoholic beverages or other drugs.
For more information on the Code of Conduct, please visit our website:
studentconduct.gwu.edu/code-student-conduct
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