The Slippery Rock University Office of Admissions appreciates the trust you share by providing information and knows that you care how information about you is used. The following describes our privacy standards.

In general, The Office of Admissions will treat personal data in a manner consistant with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The SRU Office of Admissions will not sell, give nor provide any personal information you submit to any party outside the University for other purposes.

The SRU Office of Admissions may obtain information about you in the following ways: through information you provide either via self-service from this web site, activities or other contacts you have with us, through third parties who share information you provide to them and allow them to share with us such as the The Collegeboard (SAT) or your high school guidance staff, and we may combine these sources as your admissions data.

The SRU Office of Admissions will communicate with you through a variety of sources, including the traditional hard copy mail, e-mail, and a limited number of telephone calls in order to convey the educational opportunities available through Slippery Rock University. Please make an effort to maintain a current e-mail address and mailing address with us.

Our data is maintained in secure data base servers and we utilize Verisign for on-line financial transactions. Please be advised that it is the practice of the Office of Admissions to not open any e-mail containing attachments for reasons of anti-virus management. Unless admissions staff knows with complete certainty the authenticity of the originating source and that the message is virus free, any e-mails with attachments will be deleted in an unopened state and senders will not receive a reply. Thank you for your understanding of this practice.