Campus Crime Database

Enter the full or partial name of any college or university to search for crime statistics filed with the U.S. Department of Education under the Clery Act.

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Their statewide look at the failure of many Texas colleges to fully comply with the Clery Act won first and second prizes in regional and statewide journalism competitions, as well as a national Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award, given by the nonprofit organization Security on Campus Inc. The story prompted an ongoing investigation by the federal Department of Education. Southern Methodist University changed its policy of not issuing campus-wide alerts for date rapes, after student journalists there raised questions about whether there should be such an exception to the rape alert requirements of the Clery Act. And, the president of the University of Texas at Dallas put together a commission to examine the SMU students' findings of poor living conditions and inadequate security at the university's only student housing.

That panel affirmed and expanded on the student journalists' findings (See press release at: http://www.utd.edu/news/archive/2005/housing-final-report.html). The report said the private and public officials responsible the apartment were more interested in making money than in providing decent housing and that more than half of 500 students surveyed had maintenance problems. It called for overhauling operations at the nation's largest private dorm and UTD president David Daniel promised to do so. In response, Dr. Daniel has ordered the inspection of all 1,238 apartments and ordered the hiring of 10 addition police officers -- a 60-percent increase.

In a case highlighted in the apartment stories, a Dallas County jury recently found a former University of Texas at Dallas student guilty of aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon. For that crime, the jury gave Prathap Rajamani 10 years probation and a $10,000 fine.

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