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  • November 12, 2010 9:54 am

    List of failing students mistakenly sent to all students (by the Dean of Students, no less)

    It started with a private e-mail to about a dozen fellow academic advisers warning them that the enclosed list of students were at risk of failing out of Wesley College.

    “The hole she has dug is deeper than the mine shaft in Chile,” the e-mail said of one student’s grades.

    Then, because of a mistake by a high-level administrator, the e-mail and list of 18 failing students landed in the inbox of every student on the Dover campus Monday. The breach potentially violates the college’s obligations under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA.

    This is one of those mistakes that’s simply mortifying to think about.

    Because it could happen to us.