Under changes to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) colleges were granted permission, but were not required, to notify parents whose students violated alcohol policies. This was intended to be a new solution to an old problem. But what determines which colleges choose to notify parents and which do not? This policy studied investigated a variety of predictors of parental notification policy and practice for alcohol violations including institutional factors and beliefs. Looking through the lenses of institutions of higher education, parents, and students we can begin to...