When Eating an Elephant, Where Do you Even Begin? Risk Mgmnt & Compliance Responsibilities on Campus

When:  Oct 18, 2016 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (ET)

There are so many federal and state legal requirements, agency regulatory obligations, institution-specific policies and procedures, higher education best practices, opinion letters, case law, and even contractual commitments for compliance professionals to wade through, that it is an understandable impulse to throw up your hands and give up before you start. Don’t Do It! 

Creating a program to systematically tackle the compliance obligations of a college or university cannot be accomplished overnight. But take comfort that there are methods and practices you can utilize that will ease your path towards developing a comprehensive, enterprise-wide program that allows your institution to systematically tackle its compliance risks. This process protects your campus by ensuring employees are proactively managing and mitigating compliance risks in the most efficient and thoughtful way, and allows for campus employees to spend as much time as possible on their core mission. 

During the webinar we will: 

  • Define the growing world of compliance requirements in higher education, as well as the expanding costs of non-compliance.
  • Lay out different methods of developing a compliance program, and discuss the pros and cons of various approaches.
  • Discuss the dangers of silos, and the need to engage partners across the campus in compliance efforts.
  • Develop a plan for continuously building compliance capacity in a strategic way, tailoring it to your institutional structure and needs, and identifying strengths in your campus colleagues that can quickly be turned into compliance structures.
  • Find already existing resources so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
  • Discuss the importance of ethics within a compliance program.
  • Touch on the importance of documentation, benchmarking, tone from the top, training, and assessment as you grow your program.


This presentation will be appropriate for employees across the campus in all functional areas, whether they are officially charged with compliance, compliance is only a part of their job, or they are part of a team approach to overall or targeted compliance. Everyone should have a sense of why a compliance function is an asset to an institution, not just those facilitating a compliance program directly. 

When eating an elephant, or creating a compliance process, it is hard to know where to begin, and one shouldn’t believe they can get it done in one bite. However, there are beginning steps and strategies out there that can make you more efficient in tackling higher education compliance. So grab your proverbial knife and fork, and let’s get to eating that compliance “elephant” together, one bite at a time.

 

Contributors:

Nedra Abbruzzese-Werling, Director of Compliance, State University of New York
Nedra Abbruzzese-Werling joined the State University of New York System Administration on March 1, 2012. Her duties are to establish, coordinate, and maintain a university-wide compliance program that tracks legislative and regulatory compliance requirements, to create and maintain a SUNY compliance website that provides information, guidance, and resources on compliance topics that impact SUNY’s 64 campuses, to strengthen communication and training on compliance issues, and to identify compliance systems and experts at various campuses and levels across the university. She is also responsible for maintaining the university-wide policies and procedures web page and serves as records management officer for the SUNY system. Ms. Abbruzzese-Werling graduated from the University of Connecticut, cum laude, and received her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law. She is an admitted member of the Connecticut bar, and a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional, a credential of the Compliance Certification Board.

Joseph Storch, Associate Counsel, State University of New York
Joseph Storch is an Associate Counsel at the SUNY Office of General Counsel and Chair of the SUNY Student Affairs Practice Group. He concentrates his practice on student affairs, intellectual property, and campus safety. He has provided technical guidance to several higher educational institutions and organizations on the Clery Act and Title IX and served as an expert adviser to the VAWA Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on Counting Clery Crimes. He regularly advises legislators and staff at the federal and state level on best practices in drafting and analyzing pending domestic and international campus violence prevention legislation and testified to the United States Senate regarding campus safety. In 2015, he served as a technical adviser to the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, developing comprehensive legislation that was enacted in July 2015 as 129-B of the Education Law (also called "Enough is Enough") and that same year, the National Association of College and University Attorneys awarded him it's First Decade Award. He has more than two-dozen publications, most centering around campus safety or copyright law. Joe graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Oswego where he served as Vice President of the Student Association, from University at Albany with a Masters of Public Policy, and from Cornell Law School where he served as Moot Court Board Chancellor. After graduating, he clerked for the New York State Appellate Division, 3rd Department.

 

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