HP Industry Regulations & Compliance 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Under FERPA, which of the following individuals has the right to access a student's education records without prior consent?
- A student's employer requesting GPA verification
- A school official with a legitimate educational interest (Correct answer)
- A parent of a 20-year-old dependent student at another institution
- A law enforcement officer conducting a routine investigation
Correct answer: A school official with a legitimate educational interest
FERPA allows school officials with legitimate educational interests to access records without student consent.
Question 2: Which federal law prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program receiving federal financial assistance?
- Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
- Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Correct answer)
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
- The Equal Pay Act
Correct answer: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs.
Question 3: An honors student conducting research involving human subjects must receive approval from which institutional body before beginning data collection?
- The Dean of Academic Affairs
- The Institutional Review Board (IRB) (Correct answer)
- The Faculty Senate Committee
- The Office of Financial Aid
Correct answer: The Institutional Review Board (IRB)
The IRB must review and approve all research involving human subjects before any data collection begins.
Question 4: Regional accreditation standards require honors programs to demonstrate which of the following to maintain accredited status?
- A minimum enrollment of 500 honors students
- Measurable student learning outcomes and assessment processes (Correct answer)
- Exclusive use of full-time tenured faculty for honors courses
- A dedicated honors building on campus
Correct answer: Measurable student learning outcomes and assessment processes
Accreditation bodies require documented learning outcomes and systematic assessment to verify program quality.
Question 5: Which regulation requires higher education institutions to annually disclose campus security statistics and crime data?
- The Solomon Amendment
- The Clery Act (Correct answer)
- FERPA
- The Higher Education Act
Correct answer: The Clery Act
The Clery Act mandates annual disclosure of campus crime statistics and security policies.
Question 6: When an honors student receives a merit-based scholarship, which office is primarily responsible for ensuring it complies with Title IV federal aid packaging rules?
- The Honors Program Director's office
- The Office of Financial Aid (Correct answer)
- The Registrar's office
- The Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Correct answer: The Office of Financial Aid
The Office of Financial Aid oversees Title IV packaging rules to ensure scholarships do not create over-awards.
Question 7: Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), an honors program is required to provide reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities unless doing so would:
- Require hiring additional faculty
- Cause undue hardship or fundamentally alter the program (Correct answer)
- Cost more than $500 per student per semester
- Require modifying more than 20% of coursework
Correct answer: Cause undue hardship or fundamentally alter the program
ADA allows institutions to deny accommodations only when they would cause undue hardship or fundamentally alter the program's essential nature.
HP Industry Regulations & Compliance 2
Under FERPA, which of the following individuals has the right to access a student's education records without prior consent?