09:07:00 Campus Geography

PURPOSE

It is the intent of Walters State Community College as a Tennessee Board of Regents institution to fully comply with section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 otherwise known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 and §304 of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, the regulations implementing these Acts found at 34 CFR §668.41, §668.46 and with the U. S. Department of Education guidelines as outlined in The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting with regards to identification of campus geography. 

POLICY

The Clery Act requires that Institutions disclose crime statistics for reported crimes based on:

1.  Where the crimes occurred

2.  To whom the crimes were reported

3.  The types of crimes that were reported, and

4.  The year in which the crimes that occur were reported

It is the policy of Walters State Community College that statistics must be disclosed for reported Clery Act crimes that occur in the following categories as they apply to Walters State properties:

1.  Main Campus/On-Campus  

2.  Non-Campus

3.  Public Property

4.  Other Locations (Satellite Campuses)

DEFINITIONS

As defined in The Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting, U. S. Department of Education:

A.   On-Campus is any building or property owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution’s educational purposes, including residence halls and any building or property that is within or reasonably contiguous to the area that is owned by the institution but controlled by another person, is frequently used by students, and supports institutional purposes (such as food or other retail vendor)

B.   On Campus Student Housing Facility is any student housing facility that is owned or controlled by the institution, or is located on property that is owned or controlled by the institution, and is within the reasonably contiguous geographic area that makes up the campus.

C.   Non-Campus is any building or property owned or controlled by a student organization that is officially recognized by the institution; or any building or property owned or controlled by an institution that is used in direct support of, or in relation to, the Institution’s educational purposes, is frequently used by students, and is not within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area of the institution.

D.   Public Property is all public property, including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks, and parking lots/facilities, that is within the campus, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.  Non-campus locations do not have public property reporting requirement.

E.   Other Locations is other institution-owned or controlled locations and may include satellite, extension or similar types of noncontiguous sites that have an organized program of student and administrative personnel on-site.

F.    Other Locations is other institution-owned or controlled locations and may include satellite, extension or similar types of noncontiguous sites that have an organized program of student and administrative personnel on-site.

G.   Institution-associated foundation owns or controls a building or property that is operated in support of, or in relation to, educational purposes.

H.   Reasonably contiguous refers to a building or property owned or controlled by the institution that is in a location considered to be, and treated as, an integral part of the main or core campus; that serves the institution’s educational purposes, and, is covered by the same security policies as the campus.

I.   Directly support, or related to, the institution’s educational purposes refers to the function of the building or property.

J.   Space versus program agreements require reporting only if there is an agreement for the use of space within a facility.  Program agreements for clinical or internships do not have reporting requirements.

Walters State campus properties and locations may be referenced in Tables 1-5 and in Figures 3-14 in the Annual Safety Report.

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