20 U.S.C. § 4354 — Reports

The Board of Trustees of Gallaudet University^* and the Board of Trustees or other governing body of the higher-education institution covered by the Secretary’s agreement under section 4332 must submit an annual report to the Secretary^*, the House Committee on Education and Labor, and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions no later than 100 days after each fiscal year. The report must include: (1) the preceding academic year’s student numbers, including first-time enrollment, graduation, employment, and leaving without completing a program, reported separately for each Gallaudet program—elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate—and for NTID^*; (2) to the extent possible, for deaf students and employees from minority backgrounds, (A) full- and part-time enrollment; (B) completion or graduation from each educational program; (C) their status one year after graduation or completion at NTID, Gallaudet, and Gallaudet’s elementary and secondary schools, compared with students from nonminority backgrounds; (D) students needing and receiving support services, such as tutoring and counseling, at every educational level; (E) recruitment activities by type and location at every educational level; (F) job openings and vacancies, job grade and type, and the number of these people who applied and were hired; and (G) strategies used by elementary and secondary programs and extension centers to reach and actively involve minority parents in their deaf or hard-of-hearing children’s education, such as parent groups and individualized-education-program training classes, and the number of parents served; (3) (A) a summary of Gallaudet’s annual audited financial statements and auditor’s report required under section 4353, and (B) a summary of NTID’s annual audited financial statements and auditor’s report, plus supplementary schedules presenting NTID financial information for the end of the Federal fiscal year as the Secretary determines; (4) for the preceding fiscal year, the receipts of Gallaudet and NTID and their Federal sources, and each institution’s expenditures by function, activity, and administrative and academic unit; (5) how Federal Endowment Program corpus and income under section 4357 were used; (6) how those endowment funds were invested, the realized and unrealized gains or losses for the most recent fiscal year, and changes in investments during that year; and (7) other information the Secretary considers necessary.