Dive Brief:
- The U.S. Department of Education has issued its final changes to the Clery Act's requirements for colleges and universities.
- The biggest change: Colleges and universities will have to collect and disclose statistics on alleged crimes that were investigated and then determined to be unfounded. Previously, the department didn’t require reporting of those incidents, Inside Higher Ed reported.
- The new rules also focus more on sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking.
Dive Insight:
Also required: A description of every type of disciplinary proceeding the college uses for every violation; how the schools chooses; a statement of policy and procedures; and recording stalking incidents by the location of the stalker when they first began or when the victim was first aware of it. The rules published today are not much different from the department's draft version from June.