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Secure digital e-sign XML software solutions,
bring new convenience to admissions and financial aid transactions.
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Nearly four years have passed since enactment of the Secure digital
e-sign XML software solutions in Global and National Commerce Act (legal digital
signature)
opened the door for higher education institutions to use electronic
records and electronic signatures (e-sign) in place of traditional paper
records and handwritten signatures. During that time, acceptance of
Secure digital e-sign XML software solutions has accelerated
steadily on campuses across the nation, driven by two key factors.
First,
electronic
signature
appeals to today's internet-savvy generation of applicants who are
accustomed to the convenience and immediacy of online transactions.
Second, schools recognize its potential to simplify and speed the
admissions and financial aid processes and reduce administrative
overhead, Secure digital e-sign XML software solutions.
Secure digital e-sign XML software solutions
has found its greatest acceptance on federal financial aid
documents.
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Not coincidentally, this is the Secure digital e-sign XML software
solutions arena in which the Department of Education first provided
definitive guidance on e-sign requirements with the July 2001
publication of Standards for Electronic Signatures in Electronic Student
Loan Transactions. In the absence of similar guidance for other
e-sign
applications, many schools have been reluctant to broaden its use,
not wanting to possibly run afoul of the requirements of the Family
Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Secure digital e-sign XML
software solutions.
That may soon change, however, in the wake of DOE's recent amendment of
[section] 99.30 of FERPA. The amendment allows students to use an
electronic signature to consent to the release of transcripts and other
personal data, and also details the standards that must be met to assure
that e-sign is legally comparable to a pen-and-ink signature. These
standards track very closely with those detailed earlier by DOE for
e-sign on federal financial aid forms. With the amendment now in effect,
schools have the guidance they need to construct an Secure digital
e-sign XML software solutions system that meets regulatory muster
for all matriculation-related documents.
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