A bill intended to amend the Freedom of Information Act passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously on Thursday and will now move to the Senate.
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Second Oklahoma university agrees to release campus parking ticket records
Officials at Oklahoma State University announced they will release the names of students who receive parking tickets on campus, one day after the University of Oklahoma’s president said it would release the citations.
It's foundational: Ruling reaffirms that how universities invest donors' money is the public's business
A public university sets up a fundraising apparatus to collect and invest money exclusively for the support of the university.
Try this at home: How equitable is your high school?
Earlier this week, the Department of Education released data compiled through its Civil Rights Data Collection program. For the first time since 2000, every public school in the country was surveyed, and for the first time ever, the results of the survey are being made public in a searchable database.The database has the potential to be a great resource for student journalists who want to learn more about their schools.
Crimson White, Daily Bruin roll out new records request trackers
Mazie Bryant and Jillian Beck — editors of The Crimson White and The Daily Bruin, respectively — know how frustrating it can be to get answers out of their universities.So after running into repeated reporting roadblocks, they’ve decided to call attention to their universities’ public records responsiveness by making their records requests more transparent.In newly debuted trackers, The Crimson White and The Daily Bruin now publicize details of the requests they’ve submitted to their institutions.
Try this at home: Are campus debit-card agreements deepening student debt?
With the annual cost of getting an education topping $18,000 last year at a four-year public college — and more than $40,000 at a private school — inquisitive journalists are the best "consumer protection" cash-strapped students have.Here's a consumer-protection story begging to be localized by college media...On Feb.
Questionable state of campus mental-health services deserves journalists’ scrutiny
Recent media attention, lawsuits and Department of Education regulatory actions have spotlighted what, for many years, has been a shameful secret on campuses across the country -- that the default response to discovering a student was suicidally depressed was expulsion.In a searing recent look at the inadequacies of colleges' response to mental illness, Newsweek's Katie J.M.
Grant will help Otterbein student journalists challenge limited access to campus police records
A year ago, Jordan Bradley detailed in the SPLC Report how student journalists at Otterbein University have had difficulty gaining access to campus police reports.The troubles started in 2011, when the Ohio school's security team was converted into a commissioned police force, said Hillary Warren, who advises The Tan & Cardinal. Then, campus police began responding to incidents that city police once handled. At first, campus police didn't release any records, even those required under the Jeanne Clery Act, Warren told us.
Public records in CNN investigation show many college athletes read well below college literacy levels
Sara Ganim, the reporter who helped break the Jerry Sandusky story at Penn State, has a new story today looking at the literacy of college athletes at public schools around the country. It's an easy story for student journalists to localize through records requests of their own.Ganim targeted public schools that are subject to open records laws and asked for athletes' SAT and ACT entrance exams.
Public-records research homework: Does your college expel suicidal students?
While colleges are free to remove students from campus if they present a realistic threat to harm other people, it's less clear what they can -- or should -- do when a student's only danger is to himself.The U.S.