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The Risk May Be Real: A Refresh on DOJ’s Corporate Compliance Polices and Their Application to Institutions of Higher Education

Speakers: Melissa Wheatcroft, Rachael Honig, Terance Gonsalves

  • Summarize DOJ’s guidance on corporate compliance programs and enforcement actions
  • Discuss best practices and how compliance programs are evolving in light of DOJ’s guidance
  • Review how institutions of higher education should be thinking about DOJ’s guidance

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Mitigating Tomorrow’s Risks: A Transformational ERM Journey

Speaker: Melinda Shapiro

  • Evolving the ERM process from a 1 to a 2-year cycle 
  • Building effective ERM tracking tools
  • Clearly defined qualitative data resulting in informed decisions

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Privacy Law: Year in Review

Speakers: Alexander Bilus, Kenneth Liddle

  • Understand changes to privacy law at all levels including state, federal, and international
  • Prepare for the emerging role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biometric data on campus
  • Look beyond a CISO: Is it time to establish a privacy program on your campus?

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Best Practices for Compliance Program Review: Practical Approaches and Tools

Speaker: Gates Garrity-Rokous

  • Deploy a common program framework for assessing compliance programs
  • Leverage program definitions and an assessment methodology to demonstrate program development and identify opportunities for enhancement (including needed resources)
  • Scale this approach for programs at all levels, from single area (e.g., HIPAA) to office (e.g., Office of Research) to university, to improve alignment among compliance functions

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Creating a Youth Protection Compliance Program: 7 Essential Ingredients Required for Success

Speaker: Sandra Weaver

  • Explain the need for  youth protection compliance programs in the Higher Education environment
  • Recognize how utilizing the 7 elements that are identified in the US Sentencing Guidelines are essential to an effective youth protection compliance program
  • Identify the specific components within each of the 7 elements

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Insights on How to Operationalize Your Key Compliance Program Elements

Speaker: Nedra Abbruzzese-Werling

  • A seasoned compliance officer will share lessons learned and best practices for implementing compliance program structures at your campus
  • Insights will include topics like policy development and management, hotline management and reporting, training program delivery, board oversight focus, and more
  • This session will focus on practical approaches for strengthening your compliance program and its core foundational compliance structures

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