A successful compliance initiative begins with buy-in from the Board of Regents and the President. Those who attempt to design and implement a compliance program without such support and without an adequate understanding of the fundamentals of a compliance initiative will quickly find themselves with an unwieldy plan and frustrated compliance partners.
Large or small, higher education institutions need to know if they are in compliance with the various federal and state laws. But, with ever increasing demands upon staff, a plan to ensure such compliance needs to be a manageable workload for faculty and staff and has to have built-in sustainability. Using a process for designing and implementing a robust compliance program that has been developed through years of experience and implementation at both a large public and a small private institution, we can help institutions maximize results and our client’s return on investment while reducing their exposure to liability. Particular areas of expertise include:
Designing and implementing a customized compliance initiative,
Assisting in creating an institutional culture of compliance,
Designing and providing specialized training on various laws, e.g., Title IX, ADA, employment laws,
Developing a policy creation process including policy templates, policy processes, and policy filing system,
Reviewing and creating policies and processes, and
Developing a public awareness campaign of the need for institutional compliance.