In the wake of the Penn State crisis, educational institutions are assessing the effectiveness of their compliance and ethics programs. In doing so, they find themselves looking to the report published by former FBI Director Louis Freeh, Penn State's Special Investigative Counsel. That report contains Mr. Freeh’s candid assessment of how Penn State handled the matter based upon the results of an investigation he headed, and his governance recommendations for Penn State going forward.
The Freeh Report presents a fine starting point for an educational institution’s compliance review, as it identifies elements of effective governance and meaningful avenues for implementation and assessment of its compliance programs. It is not the end point, however. Each institution must develop its own programs to maximize effectiveness for its campus. This alert highlights several of those elements and avenues that are critical for all educational institutions to address in order to maximize their legal compliance efforts and maintain focus on their core mission to educate their students.
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