GENERAL INSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION

(Educational Programs, Instructional Facilities and Faculty)

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Vice President, Academic Affairs

Each institution must make available to prospective and enrolled students information about the academic program of the institution, including -

• Current degree programs and other educational and training programs
• Instructional, laboratory, and other physical facilities that relate to the academic program
• Faculty and other instructional personnel
• Any plans by the institution for improving the academic program.

Links to Information:

• Academic programs: Academic Programs at Normandale
• Facilities: Normandale Campus Maps
• Instructional personnel: Normandale Catalog Faculty List

(of Institution and Programs)

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Institutional Research

Each institution must make available to prospective and enrolled students -

• Names of associations, agencies, or governmental bodies that accredit, approve, or license the institution and its programs
• Procedures for obtaining or reviewing documents describing accreditation, approval, or licensing.

Link to Information: Accreditations at Normandale

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Dean of Students; Director of Media and Public Relations

Each institution must provide its students or prospective students with contact information for filing complaints with its accreditor and with its State approval or licensing entity and any other relevant State official or agency that would appropriately handle a student's complaint.

Link to Information: Normandale's Student Complaint and Grievance Process 

How Disclosed:

Educational program held each year on September 17 for students served by the school.

Office/Person Responsible: Director of Student Life

Section 111 requires that Constitution Day be held on September 17 of each year, commemorating the September 17, 1787 signing of the Constitution. However, when September 17 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, Constitution Day shall be held during the preceding or following week.

Policies and Sanctions, including Computer Use and File Sharing

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Dean of Students; IT Director

Institutions must annually make available to current and prospective students the institution's policies and sanctions related to copyright infringement, including

• A statement that explicitly informs students that unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, may subject the students to civil and criminal liabilities
• A summary of the penalties for violation of federal copyright laws*; and
• The institution's policies with respect to unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, including disciplinary actions taken against students who engage in [illegal downloading or] unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials using the institution's information technology system.
• The legal alternative for downloading or otherwise acquiring copyright material is based on the school's periodic review.

[*The Department of Education will publish in the Federal Student Aid Handbook a summary of the civil and criminal penalties for violation of federal copyright laws.]

Links to Information: Information Technology Security and Policies and Dean of Student's website

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships

Each institution must make available to prospective and enrolled students information about the cost of attendance, including tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, transportation costs, and any additional costs for a program in which the student is enrolled or expresses an interest.

Link to Information: Cost of Attendance at Normandale

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Institutional Research

Institutions must make available to current and prospective students information about student body diversity, including the percentage of enrolled, full-time students who -

• Are male
• Are female
• Are a self-identified member of a major racial or ethnic group
• Receive a Federal Pell Grant

Note: The race/ethnicity and the gender data are collected in the IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey. Information about Pell Grant recipients is collected for the prior year in the IPEDS Student Financial Aid Survey.

Link to Information: Diversity at Normandale

How Disclosed: Made publicly available in the college catalog.

Office/Person Responsible: Registrar

Each institution must annually provide a notice to all enrolled students about

• the right to review their education records, to request amendment of
  records, to consent to disclosures of personally identifiable information, and
  to file complaints with the Department of Education;
• procedures for reviewing education records and requesting amendment of
  the records; and
• if applicable, information about the institution's policy regarding disclosures
  to school officials with a legitimate educational interest in the education
  records.

In order to disclose directory information without prior consent, an institution must
provide to students a notice of directory information that includes

• the types of information the institution has designated as directory
  information; and
• the student's right to refuse to allow any or all such information about the
  student to be designated as directory information, and the time period the
  student has for notifying the institution in writing.

Link to information: Student Rights under Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), Student Directory Information and Student Data Practices

How Disclosed: Made publicly available on the institution's website.

Office/Person Responsible: Minn State System Office creates calculator, hosts website and provided College with link; Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships posts link on College's website.

Institutions must make available on their websites a net price calculator. The institution may use the Department of Education's template or develop a customized version that must include, at a minimum, the same elements as the Department's version.

Link to Information: Minn State Net Price Calculator for Normandale

Regarding the Availability of Consumer Information

How Disclosed:

Direct mailing through U.S. Postal Service, campus mail, or e-mail. Information reported to NCES in IPEDS has been posted to the College Navigator website for Normandale.

Office/Person Responsible: Director of Financial Aid and Scholarships; Registrar

Link to information: Consumer Information Requirements

Requirements for Withdrawal and Return of Title IV Requirements

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Registrar; Payments and Billing Office; Financial Aid and Scholarship Office

Each institution must make available to prospective and enrolled students information about -

• The institution's refund policy
• Requirements and procedures for official withdrawal
• Requirements for return of Title IV, HEA grant or loan aid

Links to Information:

Refund Policy: also in the Registration Guide, and communicated via email each semester and via posters in key campus locations.

Return of Title IV: Refunds and Title IV and in the Normandale Online Catalog.

Withdrawal Procedures: Drop/Withdrawal Procedure; also in the Registration Guide, and online at Registering/Withdrawing Through e-Services Instructions.

How Disclosed:

Made available through appropriate publications, mailings, or electronic media.

Office/Person Responsible: Office for Students with Disabilities

Each institution must make available to prospective and enrolled students information about facilities and services available to students with disabilities, including students with intellectual disabilities (as defined in 34 CFR 668.231). (See also "Consumer Information on College Navigator Website" for related reporting requirement.)

Link to Information: Office for Students with Disabilities

including Course Schedule Information

How Disclosed:

Web-based Course Schedule.

Office/Person Responsible: Bookstore; Academic Affairs

Each institution must disclose, on the institution's Internet course schedule used for pre-registration and registration purposes, the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) and retail price information of required and recommended textbooks and supplemental materials for each course listed, to the extent the disclosure of the information is determined to be "practicable".

If the ISBN is not available, the institution must include in the Internet course schedule the author, title, publisher, and copyright date for the textbook or supplemental material, or, if applicable, the designation "To Be Determined".

If applicable, the institution must include on the institution's written course schedule a notice that textbook information is available on the Internet course schedule and the Internet address for the schedule.

Upon the request of a college bookstore operated by or affiliated with the institution, the institution must make available as soon as practicable the most accurate information available regarding -

• The institution's course schedule for the subsequent academic period
• The information provided for students (see above) regarding required or recommended text books and supplemental materials for each course or class
• The number of students enrolled in each course or class
• The maximum student enrollment for each course or class.

Link to Information:

• Textbook Pricing: Normandale Online Bookstore
• Course Schedule Information: Courses and Schedules at Normandale

How Disclosed:

Publicly disclosed.

Office/Person Responsible: Academic Affairs; Registrar

Each institution must publicly disclose information about the institution's policies regarding the transfer of credit earned at another higher education institution.

Any established criteria the institution uses

A list of institutions with which the institution has established an articulation agreement. (See also "Consumer Information on College Navigator Website" for transfer of credit policy reporting requirement.)

Link to Information: See Transfer Center and Transfer Credit Policy.

For articulation agreements, visit Articulation Agreements.