Additional Important Information

Legislation

Two pieces of legislation are of particular importance to students — The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) and the Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act of 1990.

FERPA

Provisions of this act protect the privacy of student educational records and require schools to notify students of their rights under FERPA. While the act gives parents certain rights with respect to their children’s education records, these rights transfer to the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the high school level. Students to whom the rights have transferred are “eligible students.” Accordingly, the records of eligible students may not be shared with parents/guardians without the consent of the student. CIM requires students to update the FERPA Release Form annually.

Student Right-To-Know & Campus Security

Provisions of this act require CIM to publish statistics related to campus crime. This information is available to all new, returning and prospective students and parents at cim.edu/admissions/ financialaid/consumerinformation/safety.

Performance and Composition Media Rights Policy Students

By attending the CIM each student hereby agrees to be bound by this intellectual-property policy pertaining to performances and compositions. All performances (excluding underlying compositions) by a student while enrolled at CIM are the exclusive property of CIM. These include, but are not limited to, student performances incorporated in sound recordings, audiovideo recordings, and student performances that are broadcast or transmitted in any medium now known or hereafter devised. CIM owns worldwide rights to student performances, including associated copyrights and subsidiary rights in audio and/or audiovideo recordings in which students’ performances are embodied. CIM, at its discretion may register such rights with the Copyright Office or any other agency. CIM has the right to use a student’s name, image and likeness in connection with such performances and the promotion of the school. CIM may, at its sole discretion, use a student’s performances for commercial, promotional, recruiting or educational purposes in any medium now known or hereafter devised in perpetuity, including on CIM’s website and/ or on any of its affiliates’ or broadcast partners’ websites. These affiliates include, but are not limited to, live web streaming, YouTube, WCLV/WVIZ/Ideastream, Vimeo and Instant Encore. CIM will be responsible for obtaining any licenses related to the use of any compositions embodied in such performances, if necessary.

Students in good standing with CIM have the right to use degree-recital audio or audio-video recordings for noncommercial, promotional purposes, e.g., on a personal website, social networking websites and/or in a demonstration or audition medium. CIM will notify those who are not in good standing. Students may use excerpt(s) of degree-recital audio or audio-video recordings to apply for summer festivals or other educational institutions at any time. Upon written request to CIM, students may acquire the right to use recordings in which their performances are embodied for any other purposes. At its discretion, CIM may grant or deny such requests. Concert Series performances (including orchestra, opera, ensembles, etc.) may not be made public in any way. Students are responsible for obtaining any licenses necessary for the use of musical compositions embodied in those performances.

All student compositions created in fulfillment of degree requirements remain the property of the student, except that if CIM makes, or causes to be made, any sound recordings or audiovideo recordings containing student compositions while the student attends CIM, then CIM will have the right to use those recordings for commercial, promotional, recruiting or educational purposes as set forth above. Accordingly, by pursuing a degree at CIM, each student grants to CIM all licenses, including, but not limited to, all mechanical, public performance and synchronization licenses, necessary for CIM to use the student’s compositions in sound recordings or audio-video recordings produced in any medium now known or hereafter devised in perpetuity while the student is an active CIM student.

Students in good standing with CIM have the right to use CIMproduced audio or audio-video recordings containing their compositions for non-commercial, promotional purposes, e.g., on a personal website, social networking websites and/or in a demonstration or audition medium. CIM will notify those who are not in good standing. Students may use at any time excerpt(s) of degree-recital audio or audio-video recordings that contain student compositions to apply for summer festivals or other educational institutions. Upon written request to CIM, students may acquire the right to use CIM-produced recordings in which their compositions are embodied for any other purposes. At its discretion, CIM may grant or deny such requests. If CIM desires to produce, or cause to be produced, a recording containing a former CIM student’s composition(s) after the student graduates from CIM, then CIM will be required to seek and obtain the appropriate licenses from the student.

Equal Opportunity Policy & Title IX

In the administration of its educational and admission policies, scholarship, loan and other school-administered programs, CIM is committed to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. The Institute admits students to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation or disability. CIM is in compliance with Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Complaints regarding alleged institutional discrimination, harassment and misconduct should be addressed to either of the Title IX Officers, Sarah Hopfe, Director of Title IX Compliance, or Tammie Belton, Vice President of People & Culture, 216.795.3121. 11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106.