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Virtual Seminar Series

Covering Your Back: Colleges, Universities and Background Checks

December 15, 2004
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Presented in conjunction with KRM Information Services, Inc.

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Past Programs

Resources

Statutes
NACUA Outlines
Articles
Documents
Policies--Employment
Policies--Students

**Items in Bold and Italics are direct links to the document


Statutes

Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) as amended by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003
http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/031224fcra.pdf


NACUA Outlines

Criminal Misconduct by Employees: Best Practices for Preventing and Deterring Criminal Conduct
By Toi Y. Carter (2004 NACUA Annual Conference)

Strategies: Dealing with the Campus Sexual Offender
By Janet E. Lanyon (2002 NACUA Annual Conference)

The Convicted-Registered Student Sex Offender
By Rick D. Johnson (2002 NACUA Annual Conference)

Use of Criminal Convictions in College Admissions
By Derek Langhauser (2000 NACUA Annual Conference)


Articles

Langhauser, Derek, Use of Criminal Convictions in College Admissions, 154 Ed. Law Rep. 733 (2001).

Stokes, Jerome W. D. & Allen W. Groves, Rescinding Offers of Admissions When Prior Criminality is Revealed, 105 Ed. Law Rep. 855 (1996).

Cloud, Robert C., Negligent Referral - What Can I Say?, 137 Ed. Law Rep. 851 (1999).

Clark, Susan G., Interviewing Job Applicants: Asking the Right Questions, 128 Ed. Law Rep. 939 (1998).

Harmeister, Fred, Handling Requests for Employment References: Elevating Awareness Among the Pitfalls and Pendulums, 119 Ed. Law Rep 1 (1997).

Leavitt, Walking a Tightrope: Balancing Competing Public Interests in the Employment of Criminal Offenders, 34 Connecticut Law Review 1281 (Summer 2002)

Lau, Employment Discrimination Because of Ones Arrest and Court Record in Hawaii, 22 University of Hawaii Law Review 709 (Summer 2000)

Bednar, Employment Law Dilemmas: What to Do When the Law Forbids Compliance, 12 BYU Journal of Public Law 175 (1997)


Documents

State Contacts for Law Enforcement Background Checks

JCAHO Criminal Background Check Accreditation Standard

AAUP Report: Background Investigations Preceding Faculty Appointment
http://www.aaup.org/statements/REPORTS/background.htm


Policies--Employment

Community College of Denver

Drexel University
http://www.drexel.edu/hr/policies/policies/BackgrdchecksDU.pdf

Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Euhrs/policies/uwide/bkg_check.html

Louisiana State University

Northern Arizona University
http://hr.nau.edu/m/content/view/440/388/

Penn State University (Academic Appointments)
http://guru.psu.edu/policies/OHR/hr95.html

Ramapo College of New Jersey

Tennessee Technological University
http://www2.tntech.edu/adminpandp/perspay/pp34.htm

University of California--Davis
http://www.hr.ucdavis.edu/Emp/Background/

University of California--Irvine (Definition of Critical Elements of Positions for purposes of background checks)

University of Chicago
http://hr.uchicago.edu/policy/p204.html

University of Colorado System
http://www.cu.edu/policies/Personnel/backgroundchecks.html


University of Denver
http://www.du.edu/hr/employment/background.html

University of Idaho
http://www.hr.uidaho.edu/default.aspx?pid=64955


University of Texas--Austin
http://www.utexas.edu/policies/hoppm/07.E.02.html

University of Texas-San Antonio
http://www.utsa.edu/hr/CriminalBackground/criminalbackground.cfm

University of Wisconsin-Madison (Caregivers--Student and Employee)
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/EHSRM/RISK/caregiver.html


Policies--Students

Florida State University--School of Nursing

Northeastern Illinois University--College of Education
http://www.neiu.edu/~edudept/background.htm

Ohio State University--Medical Students

Southern Utah University--Teacher Education Placements
http://www.suu.edu/ed/bkgcheck.html

University of Washington--School of Nursing
http://www.son.washington.edu/eo/background_check.asp


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