Report: Students are about half of alcohol charges on regent campuses

IOWA CITY - Of the alcohol-related charges by campus police at the University of Iowa, Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa in 2011, fewer than half involved university students, according to an annual safety report released Thursday.

Police on the three campuses saw 2,439 alcohol-related charges in calendar 2011, with 1,062 of those - 44 percent - involving students, according to the third annual campus safety and security report that will go to the state Board of Regents next week.

Of those 2,439 alcohol-related charges, 1,428 were at the UI, 886 were at ISU and 125 were at UNI. The proportion involving students was 39 percent at the UI, 49 percent at ISU and 58 percent at UNI.

Total charges - not just those involving alcohol - numbered 3,770 on the campuses in 2011, the report states. Of those, 46 percent involved students. The UI police saw 2,117 total charges last year, compared with 1,379 at ISU and 274 at UNI.

It was the third quarter of 2010 when the universities began keeping statistics on the number of students charged and the number charged with alcohol-related offenses, so a full year of data for 2010 is not available for comparison to 2011 numbers.