The Identity & Access Management services at Harvard University are based on an identity registry of members of the Harvard Community. It includes people who have been assigned Harvard University ID numbers (HUIDs) or who have been assigned or have self-assigned HarvardKey Light accounts. HUIDs are assigned to Harvard faculty, staff, and students, as well as to non-employees such as contractors, consultants, vendors and library special borrowers. Most of the information is for internal University use and is not made public. This repository of Harvard-affiliated people contains role, status, contact and privacy data for students, employees, affiliates, contractors & consultants, special borrowers and other special appointees.

At present, the University's central system of record for management of FERPA (Family Education Right to Privacy Act) and directory privacy preferences of individuals is the IAM system.  The primary use of the directory privacy data is the production of the University's online directories. See security.harvard.edu for a more in-depth discussion of how FERPA is implemented at Harvard.

Person Attributes

• University ID (HUID) 
• Names (legal name, preferred name)
• Account management related information
• Personally identifiable information (limited)
• ID card related information
• Internal mapped identifiers
• ID card image 
• University Affiliation, Role, and Status
• Directory privacy preferences

 Contact Information 

• Directory phone listing information
• Email addresses 
• Home and mailing address
• Phone and fax numbers 
• University mailing address