{"id":58,"date":"2015-01-15T14:39:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/legal\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:34:57","slug":"trainings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/legal\/trainings\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Office of Legal Affairs and other campus departments have developed training opportunities on legal and compliance issues. A list of some of these training opportunities, a brief description of each, and links where you can get further information is below. We welcome suggestions for additional training as well as opportunities to partner with other units on campus to provide joint training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HIPAA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to help 51ÁÔÆæ comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)<\/a>, five online training modules are available. Each training module is targeted to a particular subset of the 51ÁÔÆæ community required to comply with HIPAA, including students, volunteers, employees, and researchers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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FERPA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)<\/a> provides students with the right to inspect his\/her own educational records and also limits disclosure of a student’s personally identifiable information absent the student’s consent. This training provides 51ÁÔÆæ staff an overview of the laws and policies governing the acceptable use and release of student records, as well as how to comply with these laws and policies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Compliance Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All 51ÁÔÆæ employees are required by UW System policy to receive training<\/a> on three topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n