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As far as I was aware, many private US universities explicitly didn’t collect this data in an effort to maintain deniability when dealing with immigrants (espec
by vineyardmike 6y ago
As far as I was aware, many private US universities explicitly didn’t collect this data in an effort to maintain deniability when dealing with immigrants (especially “illegal immigrants”).
Of course, many many students in undergraduate life are also employees of the school part time, so presumably they need to provide this information.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoIn early 2000s, my college used social security numbers as your username or student ID for everything.
- ptero 6y agoMine too. They then emailed those to all graders (not just profs) to make grading simpler.
- quesera 6y agoFor large lecture classes (100+ people), my university (professors/TAs) would post grades on the wall outside the lecture hall. For "privacy", instead of names they used SSNs. Given the construction of SSNs (first five digits are a key for state-and-date), and our large population of students from different states, reconciling SSN to human was trivial. Ironically, the foreign students were in better shape because the registrar issued them an ID number which was not their SSN.
- alistairSH 6y agoNope, many collect SSN as part of the application process. IIRC, at minimum, it's required to apply for federal financial aid. Source: I work for a software company in the higher ed market.