Disclosures and Notices

Annual Security Report

Title II of Public Law 101-542: “The Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act” was enacted by Congress and signed into law on November 8, 1990.

The name of the bill has been changed to “Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act”, or “Clery Bill”. This law amended section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 by adding campus crime statistics and security disclosure provisions for colleges and universities.

PTCC 2023 Campus Security Report

The College shall submit the crime statistics from the annual security report to the U.S. Department of Education via an annual Web-based data collection. The college does not have on-campus student housing facilities, therefore, did not report fire statistics from an annual fire safety report.

The College is not required to include, in the Annual Security Report, policies or procedures for the following elements because at this time, there are no on-campus student housing facilities.

Missing Student Notification Procedures (mandatory only for institutions with on-campus student housing facilities.)
Fire safety log (mandatory only for institutions with on-campus student housing facilities.)
Fire Safety Statistics (mandatory only for institutions with on-campus student housing facilities.)

Notification of Rights under FERPA and the MGDPA

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (MGDPA) afford eligible students certain rights with respect to their education records.

Notification of Rights under FERPA and MGDPA

Student Right-to-Know

Student Right-To-Know is a federal law that requires all colleges and universities to disclose certain information to students. Federal regulations specify how to calculate the graduation and transfer rates. The rates come from a study of Pine Technical and Community College students who started at the college in fall semester and includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree, diploma or certificate at the college. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from Pine Technical and Community College within three years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from Pine Technical and Community College, but instead transferred to another college or university within three years. The links below provide the information that a college must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at Pine Technical and Community College. The date listed on each link is the term that the cohort of students in that study entered Pine Technical and Community College.

Student Right to Know 2016-2023

Student Right to Know 2024-2025

What is Student Right-To-Know?

Student Right-To-Know is a federal law that requires all colleges and universities to disclose certain information to

students. This handout provides the information that a college must provide to students on graduation rates and transfer-out rates for full-time students seeking degrees at Pine Technical and Community College (PTCC).

What is a graduation rate and what is a transfer-out rate?

Federal regulations specify how to calculate the graduation and transfer rates. The rates come from a study of Pine Technical and Community College students who started at the college in the fall of 2021. The study includes all first-time students who enrolled full-time that fall and were seeking to earn a degree, diploma or certificate at the college. The graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduated from PTCC within three years. The transfer-out rate is the percentage of these students who did not graduate from PTCC, but instead transferred to another college or university within three years.

What do I need to know about these rates?

These rates do not report on all students at Pine Technical and Community College. The 120 first-time, full-time students in the study were 6 percent of all students enrolled at PTCC in fall of 2021.

What are the graduation and transfer-out rates for Pine Technical and Community College students and how do they compare to rates for other colleges?

• The graduation rate for PTCC was 36 percent.

• The transfer-out rate for PTCC was 14 percent.

• The combination of the graduation rate and the transfer-out rate for PTCC was 50 percent. The national average combined rate for similar colleges was 51 percent.

Why don’t more Pine Technical and Community College students graduate or transfer in three years?

• Some students take jobs before they graduate;

• Students who switch from full-time to part-time enrollment or “stop out” for one or more semesters are more likely to take more than three years to graduate;

• Other students delay their education for personal, family or financial reasons.

Disaggregated Student Right-to-Know Graduation and Transfer-out Rates

PTCC	Graduation Rate	Transfer-out Rate	Combined Rate
Total Cohort	36%	14%	15%

Race/Ethnicity

American Indian or Alaska Native	*	*	*
Asian	*	*	*
Black or African American	*	*	*
Hispanic of any race	*	*	*
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	*	*	*
Two or more races	*	*	*
U.S. Nonresident	*	*	*
Unknown Race and Ethnicity	*	*	*
White	*	*	*

Gender

Female	40%	23%	63%
Male	34%	9%	43%

Financial Aid

Pell Grant Recipient	32%	14%	46%
Received neither Pell nor Subsidized Stafford Loans	*	*	*
Received Subsidized Stafford Loans, but no Pell	*	*	*

(*)Suppressed to protect student privacy.

Due to rounding, percentages may not always appear to add up.

Related Employment Rates

Pine Technical and Community College measures our student graduates’ related employment rates about a year after their graduation by administering a graduate follow-up survey. While some graduates continue their education after graduating from PTCC, the related employment rates look at our students that have entered the workforce and are working in a field related to their degree. The link below provides information on our graduates’ related employment rates broken down by their award type.

Strategic Framework Performance Metrics

Related Employment by Award

Class of 2024

Award	Related Work Full-time	Related Work Part-time	Unrelated Work Seeking Related	Available for Work but Unemployed	Total Graduates	Total Related Work	Total Available for Related Work	Related Employment Rate
AA	1	1	0	1	3	2	3	66.7%
AAS	10	7	3	7	27	17	27	63%
AS	7	17	0	0	24	24	24	100%
CERT	16	19	2	6	43	35	43	81.4%
DIP	21	15	2	3	41	36	41	87.8%
Total	55	59	7	17	138	114	138	82.6%
Percent	39.9%	42.8%	5.1%	12.3%	100%	82.6%	100%

Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF)

In late March, 2020 federal legislation was passed to provide economic relief to individuals and organizations dealing with the ramifications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This legislation-titled the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (or CARES Act) established a Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) for colleges and universities in the United States.

Two additional bills were also enacted to provide supplemental HEERF funds and ensure learning continued for students during the COVID-19 pandemic: HEERF II – through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Act (or CRRSAA) in December 2020 and HEERF III – through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) in March 2021.

Department of Education Required Reporting

Quarterly HEERF, Expenditure and Budget Reporting

Annual Security Report

Notification of Rights under FERPA and the MGDPA

Student Right-to-Know

Related Employment Rates

Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF)

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