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Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment works closely with Ryerson program department administrators in the determination of admissions decisions and many programs will require and assess non-academic criteria of prospective students as part of the competitive selection process. Subject to applicable laws, applicants are advised that documentation pertaining to the scoring, competitive ranking or the opinions of assessing program departments, faculty and staff may not be released to the applicant. Reference letters from teachers, counselors, principals, employers and other referees will not be shared with an applicant without the written permission of the referee. Documents and other submissions that are provided by applicants become the property of Ryerson and will not be returned. Material submitted by students who are admitted and then enroll in a Ryerson University program will either be retained for a minimum period of one year or, will form part of their permanent student record. Material submitted by students who are not admitted, will be retained for a minimum period of one year following the application and then such material will be destroyed. STUDENT CONFIDENTIALITY Ryerson policies as well as the FIPPA permit communication pertaining to an applicant's record/application, only with the individual student, unless Ryerson has received written permission from the student to discuss their application with an identified third party (not previously identified under "When Information Will Be Disclosed", above). Please note that in the course of applying to Ryerson through the Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC) students will receive additional information about how their personal information will be collected, used, disclosed and otherwise treated. CURRENT STUDENTS The information you submit is used for the purpose of creating or maintaining you're academic record. The information will be used to support decisions relating to course and/or certificate enrollment, Transfer Credit (including Letters of Permission and Challenge Credits), tuition fees assessment, determining eligibility for and access to financial aid programs, scholarships, bursaries, awards, including but not limited to, monetary and non-monetary student recognition awards and other forms of student support. In choosing to pursue a post-secondary education, students accept the Ryerson's right to collect and evaluate records of their academic performance. At the same time, the student's right to privacy requires that such information be used and stored in a manner consistent with the confidential nature of the information involved. Ryerson may exercise its discretion to share students' contact information with collection agencies in the event of overdue financial accounts; all such collection agencies are under contract with the University and are aware of their legal obligations to protect students' personal information. Students' contact information is shared with their respective student union to enable them to, for example, obtain health and dental insurance on students' behalf, to create voters' lists for student elections and to provide other services as they see fit. Ryerson will confirm whether a student has graduated, the date of graduation and the name of certificate, diploma or degree obtained. Convocation programs, containing student names, program, degree earned and year of graduation, and webcasts of the ceremonies, including individual's images, are considered public information. Students are provided with additional information about the publication of their personal information at the time of graduation. Upon graduation, students' personal information is shared with Ryerson's University Advancement and Alumni Relations departments. Following graduation, new alumni are provided with a separate notice of collection describing the expected uses of their personal information by Ryerson. Ryerson may use students' contact information (mailing and email addresses) to communicate about educational opportunities and university advancement initiatives. Students should be aware that aggregated student academic data (grades and academic standings, for example) are occasionally used for statistical, audit and research purposes, and for development purposes intended to improve university education. Other kinds of disclosures, including, but not limited to, law enforcement agencies, in compassionate circumstances, in compelling circumstances affecting the health or safety of an individual, and upon graduation to University Advancement, are in compliance with Section 42 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). In other circumstances not covered by or consistent with this notice no personally identifiable data, except that which is provided for by law, is released without the express written consent of the student. ACADEMIC POLICIES Ryerson University's academic policies are established by the Senate. All Senate policies are found at www.ryerson.ca/senate. Some of these policies are of particular interest to students in the normal course of their academic activities. These include:
Policies are revised from time to time, and it is the student's responsibility to check back on a yearly basis.
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