20 U.S.C. § 1092 — Institutional and financial assistance information for students

(a) Information dissemination activities. (1) Each eligible institution that takes part in a program under this subchapter must give prospective and enrolled students, including students who attend or plan to attend less than full time, information about the institution and all financial assistance under this subchapter. The institution must prepare the required information and make it readily available, when requested, through suitable publications, mailings, and electronic media. Each year, it must give every enrolled student a list of the information that institutions must provide under this section and section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act (commonly known as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974), along with the procedures for getting that information. The information must accurately describe: (A) the student financial-assistance programs available to students who enroll at the institution; (B) how that assistance is distributed among those students; (C) every way, including forms, to apply for student financial assistance and the requirements for preparing an accurate application; (D) the rights and responsibilities of students who receive assistance under this subchapter; (E) the cost of attending the institution, including (i) tuition and fees, (ii) books and supplies, (iii) typical room-and-board costs or typical commuting costs, and (iv) any additional cost of the program in which the student is enrolled or has specifically expressed interest; (F) a statement of (i) the requirements of every refund policy the institution must follow, (ii) the requirements under section 1091b of this title for returning grant or loan assistance under this subchapter, and (iii) the requirements for officially withdrawing; (G) the institution’s academic program, including (i) current degree, educational, and training programs, (ii) instructional, laboratory, and other physical facilities related to those programs, (iii) faculty and other instructional staff, and (iv) plans to improve the academic program; (H) each person designated under subsection (c), and how and where students and prospective students can contact that person for information required by this subsection; (I) special facilities and services for students with disabilities; (J) the names of associations, agencies, or government bodies that accredit, approve, or license the institution and its programs, and the procedures for obtaining or reviewing, on request, documents describing that accreditation, approval, or licensing; (K) the standards a student must maintain to be considered to be making satisfactory progress under section 1091(a)(2) of this title; (L) the completion or graduation rate of full-time undergraduate students entering the institution who seek a certificate or degree; (M) the terms and conditions of loans students receive under parts B, D, and E; (N) that enrollment in a study-abroad program approved for credit by the home institution may count as enrollment in the home institution when applying for Federal student financial assistance; (O) the campus crime report prepared under subsection (f), including every required reporting category; (P) the institution’s policies and sanctions concerning copyright infringement, including (i) an annual notice expressly telling students that unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, may expose them to civil and criminal liability, (ii) a summary of penalties for violating Federal copyright laws, and (iii) a description of the institution’s policy on unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, including disciplinary action against students who use the institution’s information-technology system to distribute copyrighted material without authorization; (Q) student-body diversity, including the percentage of enrolled full-time students who (i) are male, (ii) are female, (iii) receive a Federal Pell Grant, and (iv) identify themselves as members of a major racial or ethnic group; (R) where graduates of degree or certificate programs are placed in jobs and the types of jobs they obtain, using sources such as alumni surveys, student-satisfaction surveys, the National Survey of Student Engagement, the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, State^* data systems, or other relevant sources; (S) the types of graduate and professional education entered by graduates of four-year degree programs, using such sources; (T) the fire-safety report prepared under subsection (i); (U) the retention rate of first-time, full-time undergraduate students seeking a certificate or degree; and (V) the institution’s vaccination policies.

(2) For this section, “prospective student” means an individual who has contacted an eligible institution to request information about admission to that institution.

(3) For the completion or graduation rate under paragraph (1)(L) or subsection (e), count a student as completing or graduating if, within 150 percent of the normal time for completing or graduating from the program, the student completed or graduated from it, or enrolled in an eligible institution’s program for which the earlier program provides substantial preparation. The information under paragraph (1)(L) must be available by July 1 each year to enrolled and prospective students before they enroll or enter a financial obligation. It must cover the one-year period ending August 31 of the preceding year.

(4) An institution may (A) leave out of the rate disclosed under paragraph (1)(L) students who left school to serve in the Armed Forces, on official church missions, or with a recognized foreign-aid service of the Federal Government; or (B), if those students are at least 20 percent of the institution’s full-time undergraduate certificate- or degree-seeking students, recalculate their rates by leaving out the time they were not enrolled because of that service.

(5) The Secretary^* must allow an institution that belongs to an athletic association or conference to use completion or graduation-rate data that the association or conference has voluntarily published, or agreed to publish, if the Secretary thinks the data are substantially comparable to this subsection’s required information.

(6) An institution may give enrolled and prospective students extra information showing the rate for students described in paragraph (4), the rate for students transferring into the institution, or the rate at which students transfer out.

(7)(A)(i) Subject to clause (ii), information under paragraph (1)(L) and subsection (e) must be separated by gender; each major racial and ethnic subgroup; Federal Pell Grant recipients; recipients of a part B or D loan, other than a loan under section 1078–8 or a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, who did not receive a Pell Grant; and students who received neither a Pell Grant nor such a part B or D loan. This separation is required only when the number of students is enough to produce statistically reliable information and reporting will not reveal a student’s personally identifiable information. If there are too few students, the institution must say that it enrolled too few students to report with confidence and confidentiality. (ii) Clause (i) did not apply to two-year, degree-granting institutions until academic year 2011–2012.

(B)(i) To help two-year degree-granting institutions meet paragraph (1)(L) and subsection (e), the Secretary, consulting the Commissioner for Education Statistics, must within 90 days after August 14, 2008, convene representatives of diverse higher-education institutions, higher-education-policy experts, State higher-education officials, students, and other stakeholders. The group must recommend accurate ways to calculate and report the required information. It must consider the mission and role of two-year institutions and may recommend additional or alternative measures of student success. (ii) The Secretary must widely distribute the recommendations to those institutions, the public, and the authorizing committees^* within 18 months after the group’s first meeting. (iii) The Secretary must use the recommendations to provide technical assistance to two-year institutions. (iv) The Secretary may modify the information required from a two-year institution (I) based on the group’s recommendations, (II) to add or substitute student-success measures if the goals of paragraph (1)(L) and subsection (e) can be met through comparable alternatives, and (III) during the period from August 14, 2008, through June 30, 2011.

(b) Exit counseling for borrowers. (1)(A) Each eligible institution must, through its financial-aid office or otherwise, counsel borrowers before they complete the course for which they enrolled or when they leave the institution. This applies to part B loans, except loans under section 1078–3 and loans under section 1078–2 made on behalf of a student; part D loans, except Federal Direct Consolidation Loans and Federal Direct PLUS Loans made on behalf of a student; and part E loans. The counseling must include: (i) available repayment plans, the different features of each, sample average expected monthly payments, and the differences in interest and total payments; (ii) debt-management strategies to help repay the debt; (iii) an explanation that the borrower may prepay each loan, repay on a shorter schedule, or change repayment plans; (iv) for each forgiveness or cancellation provision, a general description of the conditions for full or partial forgiveness or cancellation of principal and interest, plus a copy of the Secretary’s information under section 1092(d); (v) for each forbearance provision, a general description of the conditions for deferring principal or interest or receiving forbearance, plus that information; (vi) the consequences of default, including adverse credit reports, Federal delinquent-debt collection procedures, and lawsuits; (vii) the effects of using a section 1078–3 consolidation loan or a Federal Direct Consolidation Loan to pay off part B, D, and E loans, including at least (I) effects on total interest, fees, and repayment length, (II) effects on underlying benefits such as grace periods, forgiveness, cancellation, and deferment, (III) the option to prepay or change plans, and (IV) that borrower-benefit programs may differ among lenders; (viii) a general description of possible tax benefits; (ix) notice that the National Student Loan Data System is available and how to use it to learn loan status; and (x) an explanation that (I) third-party student-debt-relief companies may contact borrowers during repayment, (II) borrowers should be careful with those companies, and (III) services those companies typically provide are already available free through the Department^* or the borrower’s servicer. (B) If a borrower leaves without the institution knowing beforehand, the institution must try to give the information in writing.

(2)(A) During the required exit interview, an institution must require a borrower of a part B, D, or E loan to provide (i) the expected permanent address after leaving, whatever the reason; (ii) the expected employer’s name and address; (iii) the next of kin’s address; and (iv) corrections to the institution’s records about the borrower’s name, address, Social Security number, references, and driver’s-license number. (B) Within 60 days after the interview, the institution must send corrected or completed information to the guaranty agency shown in the borrower’s student-aid records. (C) This subsection does not prohibit electronic, personalized exit counseling.

(c) Financial-assistance information personnel. Each eligible institution must designate an employee or group of employees available full time to help students or potential students obtain subsection (a) information. By regulation, the Secretary may waive the full-time availability requirement when the institution’s total enrollment, or its enrollment in programs under this subchapter, is too small to require full-time personnel. A waiver may not let the institution avoid designating a specific person or group to carry out this section.

(d) Departmental publication of assistance-program descriptions. (1) The Secretary must make descriptions of Federal student-assistance programs available to eligible institutions, eligible lenders, and secondary schools. The descriptions must include participant rights and responsibilities and must help students get information through institutions and help institutions carry out this section. They must let students and prospective students judge the debt burden and monthly and total repayment duties from loans of different amounts. They must describe student-loan payment choices, including income-sensitive and income-based plans for part B loans and income-contingent and income-based plans for part D loans. They must help borrowers judge loan-consolidation consequences, including differences in deferment eligibility, interest rates, monthly payments, and finance charges, and must include sample consolidation profiles. The Secretary must give the specific conditions for partial or total cancellation or service-based deferment; state, in terms of the Federal minimum wage, the maximum compensation and allowances a borrower may receive from a tax-exempt organization to qualify for deferment; expressly say that a student may qualify while working as a paid employee of a tax-exempt organization; and give information on forbearance, including debt increases from capitalized interest. Eligible institutions and lenders must provide this information whenever they give a student information about loan availability. (2) To the extent available, the Secretary must compile information about State and other prepaid-tuition and savings programs and distribute it in Department publications to States, eligible institutions, students, and parents. (3) To the extent practicable, the Secretary must update the Department’s Internet site with direct links to databases containing public and private financial-assistance information. The links may be to databases accessible without charge. The Secretary must make reasonable efforts to check that linked databases do not provide fraudulent information. Next to each link, the Secretary must prominently place a disclaimer saying that the link does not endorse or recommend the database, its provider, or the provider’s services or products. The Secretary must also provide links to resources about fraudulent and deceptive student-aid services. (4) The Secretary must widely publicize where the paragraph (1) information is located to the public, eligible institutions, and eligible lenders, and promote its use by prospective and enrolled students, their families, and borrowers.

(e) Disclosures about athletically related student aid. (1) Each institution in a program under this subchapter that is attended by students receiving athletically related student aid must annually send the Secretary a report containing: (A) the number of aid recipients, by race and sex, in basketball, football, baseball, cross country/track, and all other sports together; (B) the institution’s number of students, by race and sex; (C) the completion or graduation rate of aid recipients, by race and sex, in those sports categories; (D) the institution-wide completion or graduation rate, by race and sex; (E) the average rate for the four most recent completing or graduating classes of aid recipients, by race and sex, in those sports categories; and (F) the average rate for those four classes institution-wide, by race and sex. (2) When offering aid to a potential student athlete, the institution must give the student, the student’s parents, guidance counselor, and coach the paragraph (1) report. If the institution belongs to a national collegiate athletic association that compiles substantially comparable data, as determined by the Secretary, distributing that compilation to all secondary schools in the United States satisfies the duty to give it to the counselor and coach. (3) The institution may exclude from paragraphs (1) and (2) rates for students or athletes who leave for the Armed Forces, official church missions, or recognized Federal foreign-aid service. If those students are at least 20 percent of full-time undergraduate certificate- or degree-seeking students, it may calculate their rates without counting the time they were not enrolled because of that service. (4) The institution may give students and the Secretary supplemental rates that include students transferring into and out of the institution. (5) Using these reports, the Secretary must compile and publish the required information by individual institution and by athletic conferences recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. (6) The Secretary must waive this subsection for an institution whose athletic association or conference has voluntarily published, or agreed to publish, substantially comparable data. (7) With the National Junior College Athletic Association, the Secretary must develop and obtain, as practicable, completion or graduation data from two-year colleges awarding athletic aid, consistent with this section. (8) “Athletically related student aid” means a scholarship, grant, or other financial assistance whose terms require participation in intercollegiate athletics to receive it. (9) Reports are due each July 1 and cover the one-year period ending August 31 of the preceding year.

(f) Campus security policy and crime statistics. (1) Each eligible institution in a program under this subchapter, other than a foreign institution, must begin collecting the listed information on August 1, 1991. Beginning September 1, 1992, and every year after that, it must prepare, publish, and distribute an annual security report to current students and employees and, on request, enrollment or employment applicants. The report must include: (A) current policies and procedures and facilities for reporting campus crimes or emergencies and the institution’s response; (B) policies on security and access to campus facilities, including residences, and security considerations in maintaining them; (C) campus-law-enforcement policies, including (i) campus security personnel’s law-enforcement authority, (ii) their working relationship with State and local agencies, including investigation agreements such as written memoranda of understanding, and (iii) policies encouraging accurate and prompt reports to campus police and appropriate agencies when a victim chooses or cannot report; (D) programs explaining campus-security procedures and practices and encouraging students and employees to protect themselves and others; (E) crime-prevention programs; (F) statistics for the most recent calendar year and the two preceding available years, for campus, noncampus buildings or property, and public property, concerning (i) reported murder, forcible or nonforcible sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor-vehicle theft, manslaughter, and arson, and arrests or referrals for discipline for liquor-law, drug-related, and weapons violations; (ii) reported larceny-theft, simple assault, intimidation, property destruction, damage, or vandalism, and other bodily-injury crimes intentionally targeting a victim because of actual or perceived race, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, or disability^*, categorized by prejudice; (iii) reported domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking; and (iv) reported hazing; (G) the policy on monitoring and recording, through local police, crime at recognized off-campus student organizations, including those with off-campus housing; (H) policies on possessing, using, and selling alcohol, enforcing State underage-drinking laws, possessing, using, and selling illegal drugs, enforcing Federal and State drug laws, and drug- or alcohol-abuse education required by section 1011i; (I) where the campus community can get State law-enforcement information about registered sex offenders, such as from the institution’s law-enforcement office, the local agency with campus jurisdiction, or a computer-network address; (J) emergency response and evacuation policies, including electronic or cellular communication when appropriate, with procedures to (i) immediately notify the campus community after confirming a significant emergency or dangerous situation posing an immediate health or safety threat, unless notice would compromise containment, (ii) publicize the procedures annually to reach students and staff, and (iii) test them annually; (K) policies on hazing as defined by the institution, how to report it, how it is investigated, and applicable local, State, and Tribal hazing laws; and (L) hazing-prevention and awareness policies describing research-informed campus-wide programs for students, staff, and faculty, including (i) the information in subparagraph (K) and (ii) primary prevention intended to stop hazing before it happens, which may include bystander-intervention skills, ethical-leadership information, and ways to build group unity without hazing. (2) This subsection does not authorize the Secretary to require particular campus-crime or security policies, procedures, or practices. (3) Each covered institution must promptly tell its campus community about reported crimes that may threaten students or employees. The notice must be timely, keep victims’ names confidential, and help prevent similar events. (4)(A) A covered institution with any police or security department must keep an understandable daily log of every crime reported to that department, including its nature, date, time, general location, and, if known, the complaint’s disposition. (B)(i) Unless law prohibits disclosure or disclosure would endanger victim confidentiality, each entry must be open for public inspection within two business days after the initial report to the department or a campus security authority. (ii) New information must be added within two business days after it becomes available. (iii) If clear and convincing evidence shows that release would jeopardize an ongoing investigation or someone’s safety, cause a suspect to flee or avoid detection, or destroy evidence, the information may be withheld until release is no longer likely to cause that harm. (5) Each year the institution must send the Secretary the paragraph (1)(F) statistics. The Secretary must review them and report campus-crime statistics to the authorizing committees by September 1, 2000; make the submitted statistics public; and, with institutional representatives, identify and distribute proven exemplary campus-security policies, procedures, and practices. (6)(A) In this subsection: (i) “Dating violence,” “domestic violence,” and “stalking” have the meanings given in section 12291(a) of title 34. This section does not define them. (ii) “Campus” means (I) buildings or property owned or controlled by an institution in the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used to support or relate to its educational purposes, including residence halls, and (II) property in that area owned by the institution but controlled by another person, used by students, and supporting institutional purposes, such as a food or retail vendor. (iii) “Noncampus building or property” means (I) a building or property owned or controlled by a recognized student organization, or (II) an institution-owned or controlled building or property, other than a branch campus, used for educational purposes and by students but outside the same reasonably contiguous geographic area. (iv) “Public property” means public property in the same reasonably contiguous geographic area, such as an adjacent sidewalk, street, other thoroughfare, or parking facility, next to an institution-owned or controlled facility used for educational purposes. (v) “Sexual assault” means an offense classified as a forcible or nonforcible sex offense under the FBI uniform crime-reporting system. (vi) For reporting paragraph (1)(F)(iv), “hazing” means an intentional, knowing, or reckless act by one or more people against another person or people, whether or not they are willing to participate, that occurs during initiation into, affiliation with, or continued membership in a student organization and causes or creates a risk above the ordinary risk of participating in the institution or organization of physical or psychological injury, including (aa) whipping, beating, striking, electronic shocking, putting a harmful substance on someone’s body, or similar conduct; (bb) causing, forcing, or inducing sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small space, extreme calisthenics, or similar conduct; (cc) causing, forcing, or inducing consumption of food, liquid, alcohol, drugs, or other substances; (dd) causing, forcing, or inducing sexual acts; (ee) conduct that reasonably makes another person fear bodily harm through threats or threatening conduct; (ff) conduct against another person that violates local, State, Tribal, or Federal criminal law; or (gg) inducing, causing, or requiring another person to perform a duty or task that violates such a criminal law. (vii) For reporting under paragraph (1)(F)(iv) and paragraph (9)(A), “student organization” means an institution organization, such as a club, society, association, varsity or junior-varsity team, club sports team, fraternity, sorority, band, or student government, with at least two enrolled student members, whether or not the institution established or recognizes it. This section does not otherwise define these terms. (B) Separate branch campuses, schools, or administrative divisions that are not in a reasonably contiguous geographic area count as separate campuses. (7) Clauses (i) and (ii) of paragraph (1)(F) statistics must use FBI and Department of Justice uniform crime-reporting definitions, including modifications under the Hate Crime Statistics Act. Domestic-violence, dating-violence, and stalking statistics must use section 12291(a) definitions. Each hazing incident must be counted separately using paragraph (6)(A)(vi). If the same person or people commit multiple hazing acts and the time and place gaps are insignificant, count them as one incident. Statistics may not identify victims or accused people. (8)(A) Each covered institution, other than a foreign institution, that participates in this subchapter and title IV of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 must include in its report a policy on (i) programs to prevent domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking and (ii) procedures after such an incident is reported, including the evidence standard for an institutional conduct proceeding. (B) The policy must address: (i) awareness education on rape, acquaintance rape, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, including (I) primary prevention and awareness for all incoming students and new employees, with (aa) a statement that the institution prohibits those offenses, (bb) applicable-jurisdiction definitions of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, (cc) the jurisdiction’s definition of consent for sexual activity, (dd) safe positive bystander options to prevent harm or intervene when another person faces such violence, (ee) risk-reduction information about warning signs and avoiding attacks, and (ff) the information in clauses (ii) through (vii), and (II) continuing prevention and awareness campaigns for students and faculty containing items (aa) through (ff); (ii) possible sanctions or protective measures after a final institutional disciplinary finding; (iii) procedures for victims after a sex offense or such violence, including written information on (I) preserving evidence for proving criminal conduct or obtaining a protection order, (II) whom to report to, (III) law-enforcement and campus-authority choices, including the choice to notify on-campus or local police, receive campus help notifying them, or decline to notify them, and (IV) where applicable, victim rights and institutional duties concerning protection, no-contact, restraining, or similar lawful orders from criminal, civil, or Tribal courts; (iv) disciplinary procedures for alleged domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, clearly stating that (I) proceedings must have prompt, fair, impartial investigation and resolution by officials trained annually on these issues and on safe investigations and hearings that promote accountability, (II) accuser and accused have equal opportunities to have others present, including an adviser of choice at related meetings or proceedings, and (III) both must receive simultaneous written notice of (aa) the proceeding’s result, (bb) appeal procedures for the accused and victim, (cc) changes before the result is final, and (dd) when the result is final; (v) how victim confidentiality will be protected and public records kept without identifying the victim, as far as law permits; (vi) written notice to students and employees of on-campus and community counseling, health, mental-health, victim-advocacy, legal-assistance, and other services; and (vii) written notice to victims of options and available help for changing academic, living, transportation, or work arrangements if requested and reasonably available, whether or not the victim reports to police. (C) A student or employee who reports being a victim, whether the conduct occurred on or off campus, must receive a written explanation of the rights and choices in clauses (ii) through (vii). (9)(A) Each covered institution, other than a foreign institution, must create a Campus Hazing Transparency Report under its institutional hazing policy. It must, beginning July 1, 2025, collect hazing-incident information; within 12 months after December 23, 2024, make the report public on its website; and at least twice each year update it for the period since the last report with each incident involving an institution-established or institution-recognized student organization for which responsibility was found for a hazing violation. Each update must include (I) the organization’s name, (II) a general description of the violation, including whether alcohol or drugs were abused or illegally used, the institution’s findings, and sanctions, if any, and (III) the dates of (aa) the alleged incident, (bb) the start of the investigation, (cc) the finding that hazing occurred, and (dd) notice to the organization that the incident was a hazing violation. (B) The report may use information in another institutional report if it meets these requirements and may add information the institution considers necessary or State law requires. (C) It may not include personally identifiable information, or information that would reveal it, about an individual student under section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act. (D) It must be prominently posted on the institution’s public website and include (i) notice that annual hazing statistics are available under paragraph (1)(F), with a link, (ii) the institution’s hazing policies and applicable local, State, and Tribal hazing laws, and (iii) each required update, kept for five calendar years after publication. (E) The institution may explain the purposes of and differences between the paragraph (1)(F) report and this report. (F) The campus definition in paragraph (6)(A)(ii) does not apply to this paragraph. (G) An institution need not create the report until it has a hazing violation finding, and need not update it for a period with no such finding. (10) At an institution’s request, the Secretary, consulting the Attorney General, must provide technical help with this section. (11) This section does not require reporting or disclosure of privileged information. (12) The Secretary must report to the appropriate congressional committees each institution the Secretary finds is not complying with this subsection’s reporting requirements. (13) Crime statistics must separately identify crimes on campus, in or on noncampus buildings or property, on public property, and in campus dormitories or other student residences. (14) If, under section 1094(c)(3)(B), the Secretary finds that an institution substantially misrepresented the number, location, or nature of required crimes, the Secretary must impose a civil penalty in the same amount and through the same procedures used under that section. (15)(A) This subsection does not create a civil-liability cause of action against an institution or its employee and does not establish a standard of care. (B) Evidence of compliance or noncompliance is not admissible in a court, agency, board, or other proceeding, except an action enforcing this subsection. (16) The Secretary must annually report to the authorizing committees on institutional compliance, including current monitoring information. (17) The Secretary must seek the Attorney General’s advice on developing and distributing campus-safety and emergency best practices. The Secretary must seek the Attorney General’s and Secretary of Health and Human Services’ advice on best practices for preventing and responding to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, including policy elements shown by evidence-based outcome measures to work. (18) An institution officer, employee, or agent may not retaliate, intimidate, threaten, coerce, or discriminate against a person for exercising rights or responsibilities under this subsection. (19) This subsection may be cited as the “Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.”

(g) Required athletics data. (1) Each coeducational institution in a program under this subchapter that has intercollegiate athletics must annually prepare a report for the immediately preceding academic year containing: (A) the number of male and female full-time undergraduates; (B) each varsity team that competed and, for each team, (i) total participants on the day of its first scheduled contest, (ii) total operating expenses attributable to the teams, with optional per-person reporting and combined reporting for closely related sports such as track and field or swimming and diving, but separate reporting for men’s and women’s teams, (iii) whether the head coach is male or female and full or part time, treating graduate assistants and volunteers who are head coaches as head coaches, and (iv) the numbers of male and female assistant coaches and whether each is full or part time, treating graduate assistants and volunteers who are assistant coaches as assistant coaches; (C) total athletically related student aid, including waived educational expenses, separately overall for men’s and women’s teams; (D) the ratio of aid awarded to male athletes to aid awarded to female athletes; (E) total recruiting expenses separately for men’s and women’s teams; (F) total annual revenue from all men’s teams and all women’s teams, with optional team-by-team reporting; (G) average annual institutional salary of men’s head coaches and women’s head coaches across all sports; (H) average annual institutional salary of men’s assistant coaches and women’s assistant coaches across all sports; (I)(i) total athletics revenue and revenue from football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, all other men’s sports combined, and all other women’s sports combined, derived by the institution from intercollegiate athletics, and (ii) sport-allocable revenue includes, without limitation, gate receipts, broadcasts, appearance guarantees and options, concessions, and advertising, while nonallocable items such as student-activity fees and alumni contributions count only in total revenue; and (J)(i) total athletics expenses and expenses for those same sport categories, and (ii) sport-allocable expenses include, without limitation, grants-in-aid, salaries, travel, equipment, and supplies, while nonallocable general and administrative overhead counts only in total expenses. (2) If a coach has more than one team and the institution does not assign salary by team, it should divide the salary by the number of teams and allocate it consistently with the coach’s responsibilities. (3) The institution must provide the report information on request to students and potential students and to the public, and must tell all students they may request it. (4)(A) Each year, within 15 days after making the report available, the institution must send the information to the Secretary. (B) The Secretary must make the reports public within a reasonable time. (C) Within 180 days after October 7, 1998, the Secretary had to notify all secondary schools in all States that the information was available and explain how to access it. (5) “Operating expenses” means spending on lodging and meals, transportation, officials, uniforms, and equipment.

(h) Transfer-of-credit policies. (1) Each institution must publicly disclose, in a readable and understandable way, its current transfer-of-credit policies, including (A) established criteria for transferring credit earned at another higher-education institution and (B) a list of institutions with which it has an articulation agreement. (2) This subsection does not authorize the Secretary or the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity to require particular transfer policies, procedures, or practices; authorize Department officers or employees to direct, supervise, or control an institution’s curriculum, instruction, administration, or personnel, or an accrediting agency or association; limit the General Education Provisions Act; or create an enforceable student right to require acceptance of transfer credit.

(i) Fire-safety disclosures. (1) An eligible institution in a program under this subchapter that maintains on-campus student housing must publish an annual fire-safety report about its campus fire-safety practices and standards. The report must include, for each on-campus housing facility and the most recent available calendar years: (A) the number and causes of fires, fire-related injuries treated at a medical facility, fire-related deaths, and fire property damage; (B) each housing facility’s fire-safety system, including sprinklers; (C) the number of regular mandatory supervised fire drills; (D) rules on portable electrical appliances, smoking, and open flames such as candles, evacuation procedures, and fire-safety education and training for students, faculty, and staff; and (E) future fire-safety improvements if the institution decides they are necessary. (2) Each such institution must annually send the Secretary the paragraph (1)(A) statistics. (3) It must keep a log of every housing-facility fire stating its nature, date, time, and general location, and must report those fires annually to the campus community. (4) The Secretary must make submitted statistics public. With nationally recognized fire organizations, higher-education representatives, associations, and organizations representing or housing many students, the Secretary must identify exemplary fire-safety policies, procedures, programs, and practices, including National Fire Protection Association technical-standard installation of detection, prevention, and protection technology; give those examples to the United States Fire Administration Administrator; make effective fire-reduction practices public; and develop a protocol for institutions to review their fire-safety systems. (5) This subsection does not authorize the Secretary to require fire-safety policies beyond collecting, reporting, and distributing the required information; affect section 444 of the General Education Provisions Act or HIPAA regulations under section 264 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; create civil liability against an institution or employee; or establish a standard of care. (6) The Secretary must annually report institutional compliance to the authorizing committees, including current monitoring. (7) Evidence of compliance or noncompliance is inadmissible in any court, agency, board, or other proceeding except an action enforcing this subsection.

(j) Missing-person procedures. (1) Each institution that provides on-campus housing and participates in a program under this subchapter must establish a missing-student policy for residents that (A) tells each resident that the resident may name a person for the institution to contact within 24 hours after the resident is determined missing under the official procedures; provides a way to register confidential contact information if the resident is missing more than 24 hours; tells a resident under 18 who is not emancipated that the institution must notify a custodial parent or guardian within 24 hours after the determination; tells residents that the institution will notify the appropriate law-enforcement agency within 24 hours; and requires the institution, after campus security or law enforcement is notified and determines the resident has been missing more than 24 hours and has not returned, to start emergency-contact procedures according to the resident’s designation. It must also (B) establish official procedures that include notice to appropriate institutional people that the resident has been missing more than 24 hours; immediately refer an official missing-person report to institutional police or campus security; and, if that department determines after investigation that the resident has been missing more than 24 hours, require (I) contact with the person the resident named, (II) immediate contact with the custodial parent or legal guardian if the resident is under 18 and not emancipated, and (III), if neither (I) nor (II) applies, notice to the appropriate law-enforcement agency. (2) This subsection does not create a private right of action or a civil-liability cause of action against an institution or employee.

(k) Repealed. The subsection was repealed by Public Law 116–260, division FF, title VII, section 702(n)(1)(C), on December 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 3186.

(l) Entrance counseling for borrowers. (1)(A) At or before disbursing a part B loan to a first-time borrower, except a section 1078–3 loan or a loan made on behalf of a student under section 1078–2, or a part D loan, except a Federal Direct Consolidation Loan or Federal Direct PLUS loan made on behalf of a student, each eligible institution must ensure that the borrower receives comprehensive, simple, understandable information about the loan’s terms and conditions and the borrower’s responsibilities, as described in paragraph (2). The information may be provided (i) in person during entrance counseling, (ii) on a separate written form the borrower signs and returns, or (iii) online with the borrower acknowledging receipt. (B) The Secretary must encourage interactive programs that test understanding of part B or D loan terms using simple language and clear formatting. (2) The information must include: (A) when practicable, how accepting the loan may affect eligibility for other aid; (B) how the master promissory note is used; (C) how interest accrues and is capitalized when neither borrower nor Secretary pays it; (D) for loans under sections 1078–2 or 1078–8, Federal Direct PLUS Loans, or Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loans, the borrower’s option to pay interest while in school; (E) the institution’s definition of half-time enrollment during regular terms and summer school, if applicable, and consequences of failing to remain half time; (F) why a borrower who withdraws before completing the program should contact the institution’s appropriate offices so it can provide exit counseling, including repayment and consolidation information; (G) sample monthly payments based on (i) different debt levels for section 1078 or 1078–8 borrowers and, when appropriate, graduate borrowers under sections 1078, 1078–2, or 1078–8, or (ii) the average cumulative debt of other borrowers in the same program at the same institution; (H) the duty to repay the full loan whether or not the borrower completes the program within its normal completion time; (I) likely default consequences, including adverse credit reports, Federal delinquent-debt collection, and litigation; (J) the National Student Loan Data System and how to access the borrower’s records; and (K) the name and contact information of the person the borrower may contact about rights, responsibilities, or loan terms.

(m) Reimbursements for advisory-board service. (1) Each institution participating in a program under this subchapter must annually report to the Secretary any reasonable expenses paid or provided under section 1650(d) of title 15 to an employee in the financial-aid office or an employee who otherwise handles the institution’s education loans or other financial aid. The report must state (A) the amount for each specific expense, (B) the name of the financial-aid official, other employee, or agent receiving it, (C) the activity dates, and (D) a short description of the activity. (2) The Secretary must summarize the reports and annually send the summary to the authorizing committees.