Tracking college students “from cradle-to-grave”

The Washington Post reports on an “Orwellian” plan to track college students:

“‘Is there some reason to reverse three decades of [privacy] policy and go down this Orwellian road?’ asked Christopher B. Nelson, the president of St. John’s College, during a conference call with reporters to call attention to a new survey on the subject.

The controversial concept of a national student ‘unit’ tracking system has been floating around for about two years. It was given a boost last month when Education Secretary Margaret Spellings’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education released a draft report endorsing such a plan. . .

The United States Student Association views the proposal ‘as a massive invasion of student privacy,’ according to the group’s legislative director, Rebecca Thompson.

‘It’s cradle-to-grave tracking,’ said Rolf Wegenke, president of the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. ‘It can easily be connected to other databases and be connected to basic freedoms.’”

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