Princeton Review Will Begin Linking to Schools' Campus Security Webpages As Part of College Rankings

The Princeton Review has announced it will factor in campus safety in future rankings, under the category of "Campus Life/Facilities."

According to the Huffington Post, the widely popular college rankings publication was considering such an adjustment in light of the White House's new document "Not Alone." The Obama Administration also wants to create a set of recommendations for all schools to adopt to enhance their policies on sexual assault.

With the Princeton Review's adjustment, the publication will post a link accompanying the school's info that will lead the reader to the college or university's security page. On that website, the reader will (or should) be able to find the school's Clery Report.

Under the Clery Act, colleges and universities are required by federal law to release an annual campus crime transparency report. Withholding a crime, conducting a faulty investigation or misclassifying a crime are violations of the Clery Act. Then there is Title IX, a federal law forbidding gender discrimination on campus, such as acts of sexual violence.

"Over the 2013-14 academic year, as news reports of crime -- including very disturbing reports of sexual assaults -- on college campuses increased, we looked to ways we could responsibly collect and report information that would be helpful to the students, parents, and advisors we serve," Rob Franek, senior vice president and publisher of the Princeton Review, said in a statement. "We reached out to college administrators for URLs to their campus safety and Clery Act Report pages. The majority of schools readily volleyed this information to us, and we are pleased to share these links on our site."

The White House's campaign to end campus sexual assault is aimed at ending the trend of underreporting. On average, one in five females on a college campus experience sexual assault, but only 12 percent report their attack. Most often, NPR reported, when a school's sexual assault rate goes up, it is because more victims are reporting their attacks.