# Presentation: 092675

## Consumer Disclosure & Federal Data Collections

## Consumer Disclosure

**Pamela Maimer**
**Program Analyst, Policy & Budget Development Unit**
**Office of Postsecondary Education**
**U.S. Department of Education**** **

**Consumer Disclosure & ****Federal Data Collections**

## OverviewConsumer Disclosures

- Available financial aid program, including how a student applies for student aid;
- Cost of attendance, return of Title IV aid, and refund policies;
- Degree and training programs;
- Accreditation status;
- Graduation rates;
- Campus security statistics and crime prevention programs; and
- Participation, coaches, revenues and expenditures for men’s and women’s athletic programs.

## Campus Security

- HEA requires the Department to collect, analyze, and report to Congress on the incidence of crime on campuses and facilities of postsecondary education institutions.
- One-time report to Congress
- On-going, annual data collection

## Campus Security

- The purpose of the campus crime report is to:
- enhance campus safety; and
- allow students (and parents) to make more informed decisions about where to enroll in postsecondary education.
- Make the data available seamlessly with other postsecondary education data collected by ED  including accreditation, enrollment, degrees awarded, price, and financial aid.

## Campus Security

- The campus crime report includes statistics concerning the occurrence of certain crimes:
- on campus (including in-residence halls),
- in or on non-campus buildings or property, and
- on nearby public property.
- An institution must include in these statistics the criminal offenses reported to campus security authorities or local police agencies.

**Notes:**
Read of 1st bullet above.

Campus Security Authority is defined as:
Any person who has authority  and the duty to take action on behalf of the institution

May include a student if:
Student is a Security Guard
Student Security Personnel
A Security access monitor

## Campus Security

- Criminal offenses that must be reported:
- criminal homicide,
- sex offenses,
- robbery,
- aggravated assault,
- burglary,
- motor vehicle theft,
- manslaughter and
- arson.

**Notes:**
The criminal offenses that must be reported are:
Read list above
Criminal homicide (murder & non-negligent manslaughter)

## Campus Security

- Arrests and referrals for campus disciplinary action for:
- liquor law violations,
- drug-related violations, and
- weapons possession.
- Hate crimes – where the victim was selected because of the actual or perceived race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity or disability of the victim -- must also be reported.

**Notes:**
The criminal offenses that must be reported are:
Read list above
Criminal homicide (murder & non-negligent manslaughter)
Next, I want to present some statistics from the 1998-2000 data collection on each of the figures

## Campus SecurityWhat did we learn?

**Notes:**
All figures presented are for on campus offenses which includes the figures for residence halls

The first is the Murder

## Campus Security What did we learn?

## Campus Security What did we learn?

## Campus Security

- Mail User Ids & Passwords ~ July 29
- Data Collection Begins ~ August 8
- Data to Public Site ~ Sept 15
- Data Collection Ends ~ Oct 7

***Tentative Schedule for 2002 Data Collection***

**Notes:**
This is the schedule for this year’s data collection.

A Dear Colleague letter is in the clearance process now.  This letter is in a Q & A format and answers frequently asked questions.

All content of Dear Colleague Letter will be available on the web

## Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act

- The Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA) requires institutions to disclose a variety of financial and statistical information on collegiate athletics programs to students, prospective students, etc.
- The Secretary of Education is required to collect this information, make it available to the public and to subsequently report to Congress.
- Allow students and prospective students to make a more informed decisions about where to enroll in postsecondary education.

**Notes:**
Regulations published November 29, 1995, implemented the provision of the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 titled the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA). The EADA is designed to make prospective students aware of a school’s commitment to providing equitable athletic opportunities for its men and women students.
The Higher Education Amendments of 1992 added language to the PPA concerning additional administrative requirements for institutions offering athletically related student aid. The Amendments of 1998 moved these provisions into the section of the law that addresses Equity in Athletics. These requirements now fall under the reporting requirements of the EADA.
ED was required to submit a one-time report to Congress. 
Report was submitted in January- we are currently updating the report.
Contained the results of annual data collection for 2000.

The annual data collection will continue.
The next few slides are preliminary data for the report.

## Enrollment & Participation in Athletics

- Preliminary Data

## Enrollment by Sanctioning BodyAt Institutions Reporting EADA Statistics

***Enrollment by Sanctioning Body******At Institutions Reporting EADA Statistics***

- Preliminary Data

## Athletic Participation by Sport

- Preliminary Data

## Athletically-Related Student Aid

- Preliminary Data

## More female undergraduates but fewer women participating in sports.
Football has the largest average squad size.  This drives up the statistics in other areas related to football. Football produces the largest amount of revenue.
Women’s teams have more head coaches that are women, but more women are part-time coaches. 
Few women are head or assistant coaches of Men’s teams.

- Football has the largest average squad size.  This drives up the statistics in other areas related to football. Football produces the largest amount of revenue.
- Women’s teams have more head coaches that are women, but more women are part-time coaches.
- Few women are head or assistant coaches of Men’s teams.

*Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act*

*Preliminary Summary of Key Findings*

## Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act

- Men’s teams receive more athletically-related student aid in the aggregate but less on a per athlete basis.
- Men’s teams, in the aggregate, spend twice as much on recruiting than Women’s teams.

*Preliminary Summary of Key Findings*

## Equity in Athletics Disclosure

- Mail User Ids & Passwords ~ August 15
- Data Collection Begins ~ September 15
- Data Collection Ends ~ October 30
- Data to Public Site ~ December 1

***Tentative Schedule for 2002 Data Collection***

## Consumer Disclosure & Federal Data Collections

- Thank You!