Colleges Sharing 'Sensitive Information' with Students and Parents Few colleges provide prospective students with detailed information on campus crime or faculty evaluations. College Web sites are changing the ways students and parents can access sensitive data about colleges. Colleges use their Web sites as communication tools, with marketing materials confined to the admission or public information offices. By visiting colleges on-line, access to sensitive information can now be easily obtained. Want to know about crime on campus, visit the college security page.
Many colleges post daily security incident logs on-line.
Many college Web sites include evaluations of faculty. It's easy to e-mail students through their personal Web pages, attached to college web sites. Most students and parents accept the first financial aid package they are offered. This initial offer is largely developed by computer and takes into consideration information from financial aid forms submitted. Often this information does not clearly describe a student or family's actual financial circumstances.