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75 Year Restrictions

Student Information


– 75 Year Restriction


(FERPA refers to these as Education Records)

Retain and restrict, but only if it is the record copy and designated as a permanent record.  
Remove student papers, grades, and examinations with student names.
Remove and destroy letters of recommendation, except from faculty papers collections.

Examples

Likely Locations

  • Admission information for students accepted by and enrolled at MIT

  • Biographical information including:

    • date and place of birth

    • gender

    • nationality

    • information about race and ethnicity

    • identification photographs

  • Transcripts

  • Grades, test scores, courses taken, academic specialization and activities,
    and official communications

  • Course work, including papers and exams

  • Communications that are part of the academic process between a student / teaching staff or student / classmates

  • UROP and other internship program records

  • Students’ financial records

  • Disciplinary records

  • Letters of recommendation

  • Committee on Discipline records

  • Department records

  • UROP records

  • Faculty personal papers

  • Dean Undergraduate Education records

  • Dean Graduate School records

  • Offices with disciplinary and counseling responsibilities records

Info
titleAdditional Resources on Student Records

Registrar’s Office: Records privacy & access 

MIT Policies & Procedures: Section 11.3 Privacy of Student Records

Disciplinary records: MIT Committee on Discipline 

FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) a.k.a. “Buckley Amendment”

 Archives record schedules: “Record” copy and permanent record schedule

 

Personnel Records


– 75 Year Restriction

 

Retain, but only if it is the record copy and designated as a permanent record.
Restrict names on container lists.
If not a record copy, destroy (shred).

Examples

Likely Locations

  • Tenure cases

  • Staff performance evaluations

  • Search, appointment files

  • Promotion files

  • Affirmative action

  • Salary

  • Conflict of interest forms

  • Outside professional activities forms

  • Benefits records

  • Retirement plan records

  • Human Resources records

  • Deans of Schools records

  • Office or program directors’ and heads of departments’ records

  • Provost Office records

  • Papers of faculty who served on tenure committees

  • Papers of faculty who were heads of departments

  • Correspondence series in all of the above

Info
titleAdditional Resources on Personnel Records

MIT Human Resources: Guidelines for Retaining Personnel Files

MIT Employment Policy Manual 

MIT Policies and Procedures Manual 

Archives record schedules: “Record” copy and permanent record schedule

 

MIT Corporation Records
– 50 Year Restriction

Is it the record copy?

  • If record copy, mark for restrictions, especially when within another collection.

  • If not, speak with Associate Head for Collections on retaining or not.

Examples

Likely Locations

  • Presidential search committee records

  • Fundraising records

  • Visiting committee records

  • Minutes of meetings

  • High level planning records

  • Standing committees of the Corporation

    • Executive

    • Membership

    • Investment

    • Development

  • Annual committees

    • Auditing

    • Corporation Joint Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs (CJAC)

  • Presidential search committees

  • Visiting committees

  • Chairman of the Corporation

  • Vice-President and Secretary of the Corporation

  • President

  • Treasurer

  • Executive Vice President

    • Provost

  • Department and units’ visiting committee records

    • Medical, Experiment Records


    – 75 Year Restriction

    Determine what kind of record it is.

    • Is it the record copy?
    • Are there laws regarding retention?
    • What are MIT needs?

    Restrict names on lists. Speak with Archivist for Collections on final decisions.

    Examples

    Likely Locations

    • Patient records

    • Consent forms

    • Human research applications and approvals

    • COUHES (Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects) records

    • Faculty

    • Personal papers

    • Medical Department records

    • Research project records

    • Grant records

    Info
    titleAdditional Resources on Medical and Experiment Records

    MIT Policies & Procedures: Section 14.3 Research on Human Subjects 

    COUHES (Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects) 

    COUHES: HIPAA Guidance Document

    Massachusetts state law (MGL ch.111, s. 70)  

    U.S. law –CFR section 45 Code of Federal Regulations

    Archives record schedules: “Record” copy and permanent record schedule

     

    Legal Records
    – It Depends!

    Donor And Gifts Records

    Appraise, if permanent, restrict.
    Restrict names on container lists.

    Examples

    Likely Locations

    • Alumni/ae donor prospects

    • Fundraising campaign records, “campaign-giving”

    • Business donors, corporate sponsors

    • Correspondence

    • Gifts

    • Endowed professorships

    • Corporation Development Committee records

    • Treasurer’s Office records

    • Vice President for Resource Development records

    • Office of Resource Development records

    • Alumni/ Alumnae Association records

    • Department records

    • Office of the President records

    • Office of the Chairman of the Corporation records

    • Office of Corporate Relations records

    • Planning Office records

     

    50 Year Restrictions

    MIT Corporation Records

    Is it the record copy?

    • If record copy, mark for restrictions, especially when within another collection.

    • If not, speak with Associate Head for Collections on retaining or not.

    Examples

    Likely Locations

    • Presidential search committee records

    • Fundraising records

    • Visiting committee records

    • Minutes of meetings

    • High level planning records

    • Standing committees of the Corporation

      • Executive

      • Membership

      • Investment

      • Development

    • Annual committees

      • Auditing

      • Corporation Joint Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs (CJAC)

    • Presidential search committees

    • Visiting committees

    • Chairman of the Corporation

    • Vice-President and Secretary of the Corporation

    • President

    • Treasurer

    • Executive Vice President

    • Provost

    • Department and units’ visiting committee records

    It Depends!

    Legal Records

    Depending on the type of legal record, restriction times may vary.

    Open

    • Most court records (briefs, transcripts, exhibits, opinions, etc.) If the document was published in court, it’s probably open, but keep an eye out for the following:

      • records sealed by the court (these will usually have a stamp that says "sealed" or "confidential")

      • settlement negotiations

      • exhibits that reveal personal information (e.g. the name of a client who was represented anonymously)

    • Media coverage about a case (press releases, news clippings)

    Work Product -

    20 Year Restriction: Work Product Materials

    • Drafts of briefs or other court documents

    • Correspondence and memoranda, e.g. with cooperating attorneys discussing strategy or other issues related to the case (just make sure it does not contain private information from the client)

    • Other materials prepared for a case, such as notes on related cases, research papers/memos, etc.

    75 Year Restriction: Attorney-Client Privilege

    - 75 Year Restriction

    Materials

    • Correspondence and other methods of information-sharing with the client, unless it is routine or explicitly non-confidential
    • Correspondence between cooperating attorneys if it includes private information from/about the client
    • Correspondence with the court or with attorneys on the opposite side of the case that recounts information from the client not revealed in court or that discusses settlement

     

    Examples

    Likely Locations

    • Environmental and Health Safety (EHS) records

    • Court cases

    • Gifts

    • Property records

    • Corporate relations files

    • Office of Insurance and Legal Affairs records

    • Safety Office records

    • Treasurer's Office records

    • Real Estate Office records

    • Industrial Liaison Office records

    • Office of Corporate Relations records

     

    Tip

    Law firms used by MIT include Palmer and Dodge and Herrick and Smith. Correspondence with these firms is likely to be restricted.

    Info
    titleAdditional Resources on Legal Records

    MIT. Policies and Procedures Manual 

     

    Donor And Gifts Records
    – 75 Year Restriction

    Appraise, if permanent, restrict.
    Restrict names on container lists.

    Examples

    Likely Locations

    • Alumni/ae donor prospects

    • Fundraising campaign records, “campaign-giving”

    • Business donors, corporate sponsors

    • Correspondence

    • Gifts

    • Endowed professorships

    • Corporation Development Committee records

    • Treasurer’s Office records

    • Vice President for Resource Development records

    • Office of Resource Development records

    • Alumni/ Alumnae Association records

    • Department records

    • Office of the President records

    • Office of the Chairman of the Corporation records

    • Office of Corporate Relations records

    • Planning Office records