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1 Placing another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.
2 Willfully or maliciously destroying, damaging, defacing, or otherwise injuring real or personal property without the consent of the owner or the person having custody or control of it.
3 Physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration, or loss of consciousness.
4 Attack upon a person for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury.
5 Unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession of another.
6 Any sexual act directed against another person forcibly and/or against that person’s will.
7 Unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft.
8 Willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle, or personal property of another.
9 Taking or attempting to take anything of value using actual or threatened force or violence.
NOTE: Data are for degree-granting institutions, which are institutions that grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Some institutions that report Clery Act data (data on campus security and crime)—specifically, non-degree-granting institutions and institutions outside of the 50 states and the District of Columbia—are excluded. A hate crime is a criminal offense that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the perpetrator’s bias against a group of people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability. Includes on-campus incidents involving students, staff, and guests. Excludes off-campus incidents even if they involve students or staff. In 2011, 2020, and 2021, there were 0 reported incidents of murder, nonforcible sex offenses, and motor vehicle theft that were classified as hate crimes. Duplicate reporting of a small number of incidents may occur among institutions sharing all or part of a building, institutions in close proximity to each other that rely on the same crime statistics from local law enforcement agencies, or institutions operating more than one campus in close proximity to each other. Caution should be used when comparing on-campus data for 2020 with those of other years due to the switch to online learning in many postsecondary institutions in fall 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Campus Safety and Security Reporting System, 2011, 2020, and 2021. See Digest of Education Statistics 2023, table 329.30, and Digest of Education Statistics 2018, table 329.30.
1 Placing another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.
2 Willfully or maliciously destroying, damaging, defacing, or otherwise injuring real or personal property without the consent of the owner or the person having custody or control of it.
3 Physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration, or loss of consciousness.
4 Includes national origin bias.
NOTE: Data are for degree-granting institutions, which are institutions that grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Some institutions that report Clery Act data (data on campus security and crime)—specifically, non-degree-granting institutions and institutions outside of the 50 states and the District of Columbia—are excluded. A hate crime is a criminal offense that is motivated, in whole or in part, by the perpetrator’s bias against a group of people based on their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability. Includes on-campus incidents involving students, staff, and guests. Excludes off-campus crimes and arrests even if they involve students or staff. Duplicate reporting of a small number of incidents may occur among institutions sharing all or part of a building, institutions in close proximity to each other that rely on the same crime statistics from local law enforcement agencies, or institutions operating more than one campus in close proximity to each other.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Campus Safety and Security Reporting System, 2021. See Digest of Education Statistics 2023, table 329.30.
1 Data on hate crimes have been reported by institutions through the Campus Safety and Security Survey, sponsored by the Office of Postsecondary Education within the U.S. Department of Education (ED). As of October 9, 2020, ED has rescinded and archived the Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting, which in previous years was provided to assist institutions in understanding and meeting the various Clery Act requirements. ED now provides a Clery Act Appendix to the Federal Student Aid Handbook. For more information about the rescission and replacement of the previous Handbook, see: https://fsapartners.ed.gov/knowledge-center/library/electronic-announcements/2020-10-09/rescission-and-replacement-2016-handbook-campus-safety-and-security-reporting-updated-jan-19-2021. Due to this change, readers should exercise caution when comparing data for 2020 and later to those from previous years.
2 Includes national origin bias. For more information, see https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/resource/hate-crime-data-collection-guidelines-and-training-manual-version-30.
3 Referred to as “vandalism” in this indicator.
4 For general technical notes related to data analysis, data interpretation, rounding, and other considerations, please refer to the Reader’s Guide.
5 Data are for degree-granting institutions, which are institutions that grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs.
6 Duplicate reporting of a small number of incidents may occur among institutions sharing all or part of a building, institutions in close proximity to each other that rely on the same crime statistics from local law enforcement agencies, or institutions operating more than one campus in close proximity to each other.
7 According to data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), in fall 2020, some 75 percent of undergraduate students enrolled in at least one distance education course and 44 percent took distance education courses exclusively. In fall 2021, some 61 percent of undergraduate students enrolled in at least one distance education course and 28 percent took distance education courses exclusively. For more information, see https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/2023/cha_508.pdf.
8 Although only 3 years of data are shown in figure 1, the trend analysis is based on all years.
9 A single category of motivating bias was reported for each hate crime.
10 The reported total of 667 incidents also includes one arson and five robbery incidents, which are not shown separately in the Digest of Education Statistics, table 329.30 (less than 1 percent of all reported hate crimes).
11 Defined for the respondents as a “preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a person or group of persons based on their actual or perceived gender, e.g., male or female.”
12 Defined for the respondents as a “preformed negative opinion or attitude toward a person or group of persons based on their actual or perceived gender identity, e.g., bias against transgender or gender non-conforming individuals. Gender non-conforming describes a person who does not conform to the gender-based expectations of society, e.g., a woman dressed in traditionally male clothing or a man wearing makeup. A gender non-conforming person may or may not be a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender person but may be perceived as such.”
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