​​​Institutional Security Policies and Crime Statistics

• Campus Security Report (Including Emergency Response and Evacuation Procedures), Timely​ Warnings, and C​rime Log

  Institutions must distribute, by October 1 each year, a security report or a notice of the report to all current students and employees. If the institution distributes the report by posting it on the institutio​n's website, the institution must provide a notice by October 1 that includes a statement of the report's availability, the exact electronic address, a brief description of the report's contents, and a statement that the institution will provide a paper copy upon request. The institution must also provide a notice of availability of the report to prospective students and employees.

  The report must include campus security policies, crime reporting and prevention information, policies regarding drugs and alcohol on campus or at campus events, policy regarding campus sexual assault prevention programs and the procedures to be followed once a sex offense has occurred, emergency response and evacuation procedures, crime statistics, and crime log.

  Resources

  • Public Safety
  • 2017 Campus Security Report

• Drug and Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program

  Each institution must annually distribute in writing to each student and each employee:

  • standards of conduct that clearly prohibit the unlawful possession, use, or distribution of illicit drugs and alcohol by students and employees on the institution's property or as part of any of the institution's activities;
  • description of applicable legal sanctions under state, local, and federal law
  • description of health risks;
  • description of available counseling, treatment, rehabilitation, or re-entry programs; and
  • clear statement that institution will impose sanctions for violation of standards of conduct and a description of the sanctions.

  Note: Students who enroll or employees who are hired after the annual distribution must receive the information.

  Each institution must make available, upon request, to the Department of Education and to the public, the information distributed to students and employees (see above) and the results of a biennial review of the institution's program that:

  • determines the effectiveness of the program and implements needed changes;
  • determines the number of drug and alcohol-related violations and fatalities that occur on the institution's campus (as defined in HEA Sec. 485(f)(6), see subject # 20) or as part of the institution's activities, and are reported to campus officials;
  • determines the number and type of sanctions that are imposed; and
  • ensures that sanctions are consistently enforced.

  Resources

  • Drugs, Alcohol and Smoke-free Campus
  • 2017 Campus Security Report

• Drug-free Workplace

  All organizations covered by the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 are required to provide a drug-free workplace by taking the following steps to notify employees:

  • providing a policy statement;
  • establishing a drug-free awareness program; and
  • notifying appropriate parties and taking appropriate action in the event of a drug violation.

  Resources

  • Employees are able to access additional information regarding this policy via the Employee Portal.

• Immunization Policy

  Institutions must make available to current and prospective students information about institutional policies regarding vaccinations.

  Resources

  • Apply to the College
  • Immunization Requirements

• ​Information for Crime Victims

  Institutions must, upon written request, disclose to the alleged victim of any crime of violence or a non ​forcible sex offense, the results of any disciplinary proceeding conducted by the institution against a student who is the alleged perpetrator of such crime or offense. If the alleged victim is deceased as a result of the crime or offense, the information shall be provided, upon request, to the next of kin of the alleged victim.

  Resources

  • Clery Act Requirement
  • Campus Security Report
  • If You Are a Victim of a Crime or Witness a Crime