2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference

1. Workshop for New Higher Education Compliance Programs and Officers

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • Understand culture, codes, and program structure in higher education

   • Perform an initial risk assessment, and learn about effective investigations and hotlines

   • Participate in small group breakout sessions with the panelists to answer questions

2. Foreign Gifts and Contract Reporting: Section 117 and Beyond

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • Understand evolving federal DOE, DOD, and DOC reporting requirements regarding foreign gift contracts

   • Learn about new reporting and review processes under the Endless Frontiers Act and federal CFIUS regulations

   • Obtain practical tools and tips to collect and report all foreign funds and activities accurately

3. Recent Disability Compliance Issues: The ADA, FHA, COVID, and More

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • Identify key trends in ADA issues, especially as they relate to COVID-19 and changes in technology

   • Contextualize determinations of individuals with disabilities, and the provision of reasonable accommodations, particularly as it relates to students with mental illnesses and those requesting or requiring the presence of assistance or service animals

   • Apply effective strategies in implementing compliant policies, including resolving conflicts
     

4. Raise Your Game, Not Your Voice: How Listening, Communicating, and Storytelling Shape Compliance Influence

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • Learn how to manage relationships to get better engagement from every compliance stakeholder

   • Discover the power of stories and how to incorporate them into your message for increased impact

   • Say it again: The power of strategic repetition

5. Clery Act Compliance: A Collaborative Approach

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • Gain an understanding of Clery Act compliance as a university-wide responsibility

   • Hear real-life lessons learned and examples of collaborative solutions to mitigate compliance risks

   • Learn strategies for achieving buy-in and support across all levels of an institution

6. How to Eat an Elephant: Big Compliance, Small Program

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • Explore various approaches to building and sustaining a strong program with a big reach

   • Understand how all the work gets done, by whom, and how we can be sure

   • Learn strategies for coordinated compliance that benefit even large centralized programs

7. CMMC Should Scare You: Latest Developments and How to Prepare

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • Understand the latest CMMC developments and how it impacts higher education

   • Gain insight into your specific questions on CMMC and how it impacts your institution

   • Take away a list of challenging CMMC requirements and potential solutions

8. Compliance Officers Roundtable 2022

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 08, 2022 

   • The opportunity to understand the issues and challenges that face other compliance officers

   • Strategies for strengthening compliance programs and providing adequate responses to emerging issues

   • Adapting your program during unprecedented regulatory, political, and media scrutiny

9. Higher Education Compliance: 2021-2022 Year in Review

   2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

   • Provide a year-in-review perspective of major events and the impacts on higher education compliance

   • Summarize significant changes in regulations with a focus on the institutional compliance response

   • Cover a broad spectrum of higher education compliance areas such as DACA, foreign engagement, etc.

10. Ethics Training They'll Volunteer to Take

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Bite size is the right size: How to break the content up into palatable servings

    • Encouraging engagement: Ways to invite additional exploration outside of training

    • Recognizing achievement without breaking the bank: Ideas for rewarding participation

11. Compliance: Whose Job Is It?

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Discuss the core responsibilities of the compliance officer

    • Discuss the CCO's role implementing the compliance program vs. supporting compliance activities

    • How to lead a strategic program leveraging other campus compliance professionals

12. How to Operationalize Enterprise Risk Management in an Increasingly Risky World: Practical Steps for Your College or University

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Create an ERM program that speaks to your organization's mission and culture and engages subject matter experts as well as executive and governing board leaders

    • Evolve an ERM program's risk assessment process to create an essential operational tool that supports effective risk mitigation and builds program maturity

    • Learn how to leverage your ERM program as an effective communications instrument-one that speaks to multiple dimensions of institutional risk across programs, services, and activities-for a diverse group of campus stakeholders

13. How to Evolve Your Compliance Program with an Update to Your Framework and Code

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Increasing focus on how the program is implemented in schools, departments, and units; clarifying roles

    • Creating a more robust basis for evaluating and designing university compliance programs

    • Bringing your code to the next level

14. Adding Privacy Questions to Your Vendor Security Assessment Process and Why it Is Important

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Understand why privacy questions are an important part of vendor reviews

    • Learn example privacy questions to ask

    • Strategies on how to add privacy questions to your vendor assessment process

15. Beyond the Background Check

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Examine standard and enhanced components of faculty and staff background checks

    • Identify methods to ensure that a prospective hire is not another institution's "problem employee"

    • Identify issues associated with enhanced screening methods designed to uncover prior misconduct

16. Privacy Law Update

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Understand China's new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) and recent changes to GDPR

    • Survey recent state law related to privacy and breach notification

    • Take away practical strategies to respond to these laws and improve your overall privacy program

17. Investigation and Compliance Missteps

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Learn best practices for conducting investigations

    • Be able to identify key mistakes in investigations

    • Integrate your investigations procedure into your compliance framework

18. Implementing an Effective Compliance Assessment Framework

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Determine how to evaluate the effectiveness of existing compliance and ethics activities

    • Establish an effective assessment process and develop a roadmap to prioritize future assessments

    • Discuss how reporting on the outcomes of a compliance assessment can drive continuous improvement

19. Policy Transformation at UNTHSC

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 09, 2022 

    • Building on momentum from its digital Code of Culture initiative, UNTHSC embarked upon a policy transformation journey to fundamentally change its approach to policy management

    • Learn about UNTHSC's mandate to decrease the number of its policies from 425 to a more manageable 90 (or so!)

    • Hear how UNTHSC evaluated its existing policy inventory and policy management process and then crafted and executed a massive policy transformation plan

20. Compliance in the Era of Distributed Workforces

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 10, 2022 

    • Understand how to better respond to the communication challenges balancing both workers in the office and at home

    • Learn how to better build connections with other departments without physical proximity

    • Meet the challenge of creating a culture of compliance

21. When Privacy Needs Transparency: Responding to Data Threats

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 10, 2022 

    • Review of the varied ways data is at risk for breach

    • Communicate with leadership how potential data breaches affect operations

    • Respond collaboratively and collegially when compliance is part of the response

    
    

22. Title IX: The Past, Present, and Future of Campus Investigations, Adjudications, and Litigation

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 10, 2022 

    • Understand the current status of the Title IX regulations and what changes we expect to see soon

    • Learn how to identify and properly handle Title IX complaints, focusing on trauma-informed techniques

    • Learn best practices for conducting investigations under the new 2020 regulation guidelines

23. Foreign Influence: Practical Approaches Toward Converting Issue Response to Proactive Culture

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 10, 2022 

    • Identify best practices for responding to foreign influence allegations/issues

    • Enable appropriate regulatory and law enforcement engagement

    • Prioritize key process and values steps to proactively/appropriately mitigate foreign influence risks

24. The Really Ugly Duckling and Other Stories to Ensure Your Training Doesn't Stink

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 10, 2022 

    • Learn how to use stories to make your training and education sessions engaging and memorable

    • Utilize scenario-based training to help faculty and staff understand what you want them to do

    • Leave your audience with a "moral of the story" for key takeaways to remember and change behavior

25. Conducting Effective Organizational Title IX Compliance Assessments: Tips and Tools

    2022 Higher Education Compliance Conference  | June 10, 2022 

    • Understand the benefit of conducting campus Title IX assessments to support organizational compliance. For systems of higher education, knowledge of member institution's level of compliance is crucial to providing allocating resources and managing risk

    • Learn how to develop and complete a Title IX assessment plan examining overall organizational structure and process, including conducting interviews and review of related records and materials

    • Examine ways to structure and write a Title IX compliance assessment report. Attendees will also explore ways to effectively utilize this assessment report to create organizational change and improve response mechanisms and overall structure