Compliance, Ethics & Risk Management
Compliance, Ethics & Risk Management provides essential strategic leadership across the College. We foster a safer, more resilient environment by promoting proactive risk planning, driving continuous improvement, and upholding the highest ethical standards.
As an independent branch of the College and part of the Legal Department, our core mission is to partner with all students, faculty, and staff to protect the people, safeguard assets, and serve the College’s mission.
Our core functions include:
- Compliance and Ethical Conduct
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
- Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)
- Insurable and Operational Risk Oversight
- Title IX Compliance and Coordination
Compliance & Ethics
Compliance & Ethics promotes a culture of ethical conduct and fulfillment of legal obligations. By fostering transparency and systematic risk identification, we actively reduce the consequences of non-compliance with federal and state laws.
How we strengthen transparency and compliance:
- Clear Standards: Communicate clear standards, regulatory requirements, and responsibilities.
- Safe Reporting: Promote reporting of non-compliance with assurances against retaliation.
- Monitor and Review: Systematically address College-wide compliance risks.
- Continuous Improvement: Enhance effective response to identified risks through ongoing monitoring and process improvement.
If you witness or suspect any potential non-compliance, unethical behavior, or policy violations, please report it immediately. Reports can be made anonymously through our dedicated hotline. Initiate a Report
Risk Management & Safety
Risk Management is dedicated to ensuring the safety of our students, employees, the college community, and environmental safety. The team’s goal is to protect the people, protect the assets, and serve the mission.
Our services proactively address risks and promote safety throughout the College by ensuring:
- Environmental: Environmental permits are in place and effectively managed. Consistent safe chemical management, including proper disposal, is in place.
- Physical Safety: Safety plans, controls, and training are effective. Safety systems, fire, and life safety programs are properly maintained and tested.
- Financial/Operational Protection: Appropriate insurance is maintained and actively managed, including coordination of insurance claims (property, casualty, workers’ compensation).
- Employee Health: Occupational medical programs meet or exceed legal requirements.
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
ERM expands the traditional view of risk beyond negative consequences to include opportunity (upside risk). Under an ERM framework, risk is the impact of uncertainty on objectives, and risk management is the process of leading the College in light of that uncertainty.
Our ERM goals:
- To continuously improve a culture of risk-assessed decision-making throughout the College.
- To ensure that risks related to the College's most important strategic objectives are understood and effectively managed by executive leadership and the Governing Board.
We work closely with risk owners and executive owners to achieve these goals.
Title IX Compliance
Title IX compliance is a shared responsibility led by the Office of Risk Management, Ethics & Compliance. The College is committed to providing an environment free from discrimination on the basis of sex, including sexual harassment, as required by Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
For more information, to report an incident, or to contact the College's Title IX Coordinator, please visit the College’s dedicated Title IX information page.