Santa Clara University

Summary

The Student Right to Know Act requires that institutions receiving Title IV funding disclose certain information, including institutional graduation rates, athlete graduation rates, financial assistance awarded and crime statistics. Specific guidelines exist as to the method and timing for reporting and disclosure to potential students, current students and employees. Institutions are required to provide enrolled students a list of the information to which the students are entitled upon request. The Higher Education Act (HEA) specifically requires that institutions provide the list annually to all enrolled students.

Compliance Requirements

Santa Clara University is required to:

Make available to any enrolled or prospective student, on request through appropriate publications, mailings or electronic media information concerning:

• Financial assistance available to students enrolled in the institution
• The institution
• The institution's completion or graduation rate

Make available to enrolled students and current employees the annual security report through appropriate publications and mailings.

Report to enrolled students, prospective students and the public on athletic program participation rates and financial support data. Santa Clara University must submit the report to the Secretary within 15 days of release to students.

Submit the annual security report to the Secretary and in the format specified by the Secretary.

Compliance Methods

Santa Clara University annually must distribute to all enrolled students a notice of the availability of the information required to be disclosed. The notice must list and briefly describe the information and tell the student how to obtain the information.

An institution may satisfy any requirement to disclose information by posting to an Internet Web site. The following rules apply when reporting required information on the web:

• Information disclosed to students by posting on an Internet Web site must be preceded by the notice described above. The notice must also include:
• • The exact electronic address at which the information is posted
  • A statement that the institution will provide a paper copy of the information upon request

Annual Security Report

Enrolled Students must receive notice of the availability of the security report, the exact electronic address and a statement that the institution will provide a paper copy of the information upon request.

Current Employees must receive a notice that includes a statement of the report's availability, the exact electronic address at which the report is posted, a brief description of the report's contents and a statement that the institution will provide a paper copy of the report upon request.

Prospective Students Prospective Employees must receive a notice that includes a statement of the security report's availability, the exact electronic address at which the report is posted, a brief description of the report's contents and a statement that the institution will provide a paper copy of the report upon request.

Santa Clara University must make available to enrolled students, prospective students and the public, athletic program participation rates and financial support data. Enrolled students are to receive a notice of the reports availability, including the exact electronic address at which the report is posted, a brief description of the report's contents and a statement that the institution will provide a paper copy of the report upon request. It is not acceptable to post to an Internet site for use by prospective students.

Required Institutional Information

Institutional information that the institution must make readily available upon request to enrolled and perspective students includes, but is not limited to:

The cost of attending the institution including:

• Tuition and fees charged to full-time and part-time students
• Estimates of costs for necessary books and supplies
• Estimates of typical charges for room and board
• Estimates of transportation costs
• Any additional cost of a program in which a student is enrolled or expresses a specific interest

Any refund policy with which the institution is required to comply for the return of unearned tuition and fees or other refundable portions of costs paid to the institution procedures for officially withdrawing from the institution:

• A summary of requirements for return of Title IV grant or loan assistance
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• The academic program of the institution including:
• • Current degree programs and training programs
  • Physical facilities which relate to the academic program
  • Faculty and other instructional personnel
  • Names of associations, agencies or governmental bodies that accredit, approve, or license the institution and its programs, and the procedures by which documents describing that activity may be reviewed

The institutions must make available for review to any enrolled or prospective student, upon request, a copy of the documents describing the institution's accreditation, approval or licensing:

• A description of any special facilities available to disabled students
• A statement that the student's enrollment in a program of study abroad approved for credit by the home institution may be considered enrollment at the home institution for the purpose of applying for assistance under the title IV, HEA programs
• Completion and Graduation Rates
• Institutional Security Policies and Crime Statistics
• Athletic Program Participation Rates and Financial Support Information