By Scotty Jenkins
Compliance is hard work. That’s why it’s been so pleasant gathering (commiserating?) with professionals from all over the country who are in the same boat. I’ve been working in higher ed compliance for just over three years, and this is my first Higher Education Compliance Conference. I’ve been to the Compliance and Ethics Institute and a Compliance Academy, both of which were great, but it’s been even better attending an SCCE conference focusing specifically on the challenges universities face.
My favorite session so far was Deena King and Destinee Walters’ breakout on designing a compliance program with limited resources. Seeing what this small team of one did with so few resources was inspiring. Formalizing the seven elements into an eight-step compliance process (for all three levels of an organization – governance, managerial, and operational) is a great idea for ensuring a compliance program remains faithful to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. I also like the idea of using electronic survey technology to elicit compliance self-assessments from compliance partners across the campus.
If you didn’t make it to this session, you missed out on a free copy of Deena’s new book! But I, nonetheless, encourage you to download the presentation slides from the SCCE website. They are packed with great ideas and information that is useful for even the most resourced compliance programs.
I’m looking forward to the rest of the conference and interacting with more of my peers.