Student Right-To-Know

Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act. The Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act increased the level of information universities must collect and provide to current and prospective students and employees and to the Department of Education. The first part of the act, entitled the Student Right-to-Know Act, requires colleges and universities to compile and release institution-wide graduation rates for all students, with more detailed statistical information submitted on the graduation rates of athletes. For institution's graduation rates for all students, click here.

Part II of the act, entitled the Campus Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990, requires colleges and universities to annually make available to all current employees and students as well as to applicants for enrollment or employment the following information:

1. a description of policies concerning the security of and access to all campus facilities; policies and procedures for reporting campus crime; and policies concerning law enforcement along with crime prevention educational programs relating to campus security, and
2. statistics concerning the occurrence of certain categories of campus crimes.

Institutions are also required to issue timely warnings to the campus community about criminal activities representing a continued safety threat to aid in crime prevention. In addition, the University complies with the 1998 Higher Education Amendments Act that amended the Campus Security Act by expanding the geographic scope and categories of offenses that must be included in the annual statistics. This information is available on SMSU’s Public Safety website: https://www.smsu.edu/campuslife/publicsafety/ under the “Annual Security and Fire Report” banner, and for a printed copy, contact:

SMSU Office of University Public Safety
Founders Hall 
1501 State Street
Marshall, Minn. 56258
507-537-7252