STATE COLLEGE — Penn State said Monday that student government leaders and high-ranking administrators will participate in a town hall forum for students about the child sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the university.

Also Monday, a team with the U.S. Department of Education arrived in State College as part of the federal investigation into whether the school violated reporting mandates for campus crime.

The federal investigation centers on whether reporting provisions of the Clery Act were complied with in the case of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was charged this month with 40 criminal counts and is accused of sexual abuse of eight boys, some on campus. State prosecutors also charged athletic director Tim Curley and former vice president Gary Schultz with not properly reporting suspected child abuse and perjury before a grand jury.

Violations of the Clery Act, named for a Lehigh University freshman who was raped and murdered in her dorm room by another student in 1986, can bring fines and a loss of federal student aid.

The student forum, planned for Wednesday at Heritage Hall on the University Park main campus, will be restricted to students who get tickets ahead of time. It will be broadcast by the Pennsylvania Cable Network and streamed over the Internet.