The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has released the proposed rules to the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA). Comments on these rules must be submitted to the DOE on or before Sept. 21.
The proposed rules relating to campus safety include:
- Establishing requirements for institutions that maintain on-campus housing facilities to publish annually a fire safety report, maintain a fire log, and report fire statistics to the Department (see section 485(i) of the HEA).
- Requiring institutions that provide on-campus housing facilities to develop and make available a missing student notification policy and allow students who reside on campus to confidentially register contact information (see section 485(j) of the HEA).
- Expanding the list of crimes that institutions must include in the hate crimes statistics reported to the Department (see section 485(f) of the HEA).
- Requiring institutions to include in the annual security report a statement of emergency response and evacuation procedures (see section 485(f) of the HEA).
To read full text of the proposed rules,
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