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Summary of New Disclosure Provisions in Section 485(a)(1):


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  • Plans for Academic Improvement  (Section 485(a)(1)(G))  Current disclosure requirements regarding academic programs are expanded to include a description of any plans by the institution for improving its academic programs.
  • Terms and Conditions of Loans  (Section 485(a)(1)(M))  Each institution must disclose to students the terms and conditions of guaranteed, direct, and Perkins loans.  Previously, the disclosures required by this subparagraph related to deferrals and partial cancellations.
  • Peer-to-Peer File Sharing  (Section 485(a)(1)(P))  Each institution must disclosure to students its institutional policies and sanctions related to copyright infringement.
  • Student Characteristics  (Section 485(a)(1)(Q))  Each institution must disclose information about the diversity of its student body, including information about the percentage of full-time students broken down by gender, race/ethnicity, and whether or not they are Pell Grant recipients.  (Institutions currently collect all this information, but the disclosure requirement is new.)  
  • Post-Graduate Information  (Section 485(a)(1)(R) & (S)) Each institution must disclose information about the employment of and participation in graduate and professional education by its graduates.  The information is to be gathered from 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.
  • Fire Safety Report (Section 485(a)(1)(T))  The disclosure to students and prospective students must include the new fire safety report required under new Section 485(i).
  • Retention Rates  (Section 485(a)(1)(U))  Each institution must disclose its retention rates.  (Institutions currently collect this information, but the disclosure requirement is new.)
  • Vaccine policies (Section 485(a)(1)(V))  Each institution must disclose is vaccination policies.
  • Disaggregation of Graduation Data (Section 485(a)(7))  Graduation data under the “Student Right to Know” provisions of the law would have to be disaggregated by gender, by major racial and ethnic subgroup, by recipients of Pell Grants, by recipients of a subsidized federal loan who did not receive a Pell Grant, and by recipients of neither a Pell Grant nor a subsidized loan.