The Student Right-to-Know Act, passed by Congress in 1990, requires institutions eligible for Title IV funding, under the Higher Education Act of 1965, to calculate completion or graduation rates of certificate- or degree-seeking, full-time students entering that institution, and to disclose these rates to current and prospective students.  Every institution that participates in any Title IV program and is attended by students receiving athletically-related student aid is required to disclose graduation/completion rates of all students as well as students receiving athletically-related student aid by race/ethnicity, gender and by sport, and the average completion or graduation rate for the four most recent years, to parents, coaches, and potential student athletes.  To read more about the Student Right-to-Know Act, please visit the National Center for Education Statistics website at http://nces.ed.gov .

Cameron University, acting in compliance with the Student Right to Know Act, is happy to post the following information on the graduation rates of our cohorts of full-time, first-time, degree-seeking undergraduates, and student athletes that have received financial aid.   The graduation rates show the graduation/completion status of students who enrolled for whom 150% of the normal time-to-completion of a four-year, undergraduate degree has elapsed.

Things to keep in mind when viewing this information:

• Retention and Graduation rates are for a select group of students – Summer and Fall First-time, Full-time Baccalaureate degree seeking freshmen.  While this is an important group to track, it does not represent all of our students, including students who start in the Spring, transfer students, part-time students, associate degree seeking students, graduate students, or non-degree seeking students.
• All graduation rates are based on 6 years of attendance which is equal to 150% of the normal completion time of Cameron’s longest academic program.
• Graduation rates do not include students who left school:
• To serve in the armed forces
• To take part in official church missions,
• To help with a foreign aid service of the federal government
• Graduation rates do not include student who have died or become totally disabled.
• Students who withdrew for personal or medical reasons are included in the original headcount.  Additionally, students who started at Cameron University who transferred to another university and graduated will not be included in Cameron's graduation rate.
• We have chosen not to report our transfer-out rate.
  

Student Body Diversity (NPEC, Summary of HEA Institutional Disclosure Requirements, reference number 8) Brief Description: Institutions must make available to current and prospective students information about student body diversity, including the percentage of enrolled, full-time students in the following categories: male, female, self-identified members of a major racial or ethnic group, and Federal Pell Grant recipients.

Retention Rates(NPEC, Summary of HEA Institutional Disclosure Requirements, reference number 24) Brief Description: Institutions must make available to current and prospective students the retention rate of certificate- or degree-seeking, first-time, undergraduate students as reported to IPEDS.

Completion/Graduation Rates (NPEC, Summary of HEA Institutional Disclosure Requirements, reference number 25) Brief Description:  Each institution must annually make available to prospective and enrolled students the completion or graduation rate of certificate- or degree-seeking, first-time, full-time, undergraduate students. The HEOA (Sec. 488(a) (3)) added a provision requiring that the completion or graduation rates must be disaggregated by gender, major racial and ethnic subgroup (as defined in IPEDS), recipients of a Federal Pell Grant, recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant, and students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan.

If you have any questions regarding information on this page, please contact:

Dr. Karla J. Oty, Director Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Accountability Cameron University koty@cameron.edu 580-581-7962