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Higher Education Opportunity Act Annual Fire Safety Report
The Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) / Clery Act and its accompanying regulations have established
new requirements for colleges in the area of fire safety and reporting. All Title IV eligible institutions that participate in Title IV programs and maintain on-campus student housing facilities are required to publish an annual fire safety report that outlines the fires safety systems, policies, practices, and statistics of the university. Colleges must report only those fires that occur within an on-campus student housing facility. Colleges may not simply report all fires that occur anywhere on campus. Colleges must report on the number of fires (if any) that occur in the on-campus student housing facility, the number of injuries and deaths from such fires (including someone who dies within a year from injuries sustained in a campus fire), and the value of fire-related property damage. Department of Education (DOE) regulations and commentary indicate that both the Clery Annual Safety Report (ASR) and the Annual Fire Report can be distributed to the campus community in a single document, or in separate documents. If reported separately each report must contain information on how to directly access the other.
The UTMB department responsible for the UTMB Annual Security Report (ASR) and the UTMB Annual Fire Safety Report is the UTMB Police Department. The Annual Security Report (ASR) and the Annual Fire Safety Report can be found at the UTMB Police Department, 1.112 Administration Bldg., 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555-0101. Te/# 409-772-1511. And websites: http://www.utmb.edu/police/, or http://www.utmb.edu/securityreport/
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