By Dec. 23, every US college and university must disclose their hazing incidents. HazingInfo will bring you all of the data, all in one place
Colleges and universities are beginning to post their new Campus Hazing Transparency Reports ahead of the December 23 deadline to disclose campus hazing incidents.
Yet it’s likely that a large number of schools will miss the deadline based on reporting by HazingInfo.
Two days before Christmas 2024, President Biden signed the Stop Campus Hazing Act. It was the culmination of more than 10 years of efforts by campus safety advocates and families of hazing victims to pass the nation’s first anti-hazing law.
One key piece of the law requires every US college and university to publish a Campus Hazing Transparency Report on their website.
For the first time, students and families will get to see college hazing information that campuses have largely kept private until now.
Some schools already sharing their hazing data
Last month, an informal survey of nearly 50 higher education institutions by the research organization StopHazing.org found that half had already posted their Campus Hazing Transparency Reports.
The other half said they planned to post their reports before December 23. One school, the University of San Diego, said it planned to post its report on December 23.
Of the 48 schools that responded to the survey, many are part of the Hazing Prevention Consortium, a network of colleges and universities working with StopHazing to strengthen hazing prevention practices.
The new federal law requires schools to report hazing violations that are documented beginning July 1, 2025. Their transparency reports must be updated twice annually with the names of student organizations found responsible for hazing, a general description of the violation, and the dates each incident was reported, investigated, and formally determined to be hazing.
HazingInfo investigation finds many schools unlikely to comply
Throughout 2025, HazingInfo has investigated the state of hazing in America. We took a deep dive into hazing incident data in nine states that already have state hazing transparency laws requiring them to disclose hazing incidents. Most of those laws are at least three years old.
We found nearly 1,000 reported hazing incidents in the nine states over a six-year span.
The second major takeaway: Just 50% of campuses in those states are publicly reporting their hazing incidents as required by their own state laws.
That track record indicates that many schools are likely to miss — or ignore — the December 23 deadline for disclosing hazing incidents.
HazingInfo is a one-stop resource for hazing incident data
HazingInfo will be the only place to find all available hazing incident data, all in one place.
Starting December 23, our team of data-gatherers and fact-checkers will collect all hazing data reported by schools under the new federal transparency law.
We will use technology tools, including artificial intelligence programs, to create an initial dataset.
Then we will hand-check each school’s information to reveal which campuses are complying with the law, which are not, and what the data can tell us about college hazing.
We will share the full results of our analysis in January 2026 and spend the coming months going deeper, looking at the campuses where hazing is occurring and the student organizations most often named as hazing offenders.
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