![girl with a bunch of students asking a question](https://cdn.navex.com/image/upload/t_optimize-image/v1709035244/new-navex-brand-2023/people/orange-employee-lecture.jpg)
Simplify higher education risk and compliance management
Protect sensitive student and faculty data, empower your institution and fulfill your duty of care. Confidently navigate higher education risk and compliance with NAVEX One.
Protect sensitive student and faculty data, empower your institution and fulfill your duty of care. Confidently navigate higher education risk and compliance with NAVEX One.
Navigate complex compliance requirements across academics, finances, healthcare, human resources and athletics
Create and distribute policies, intake and manage incidents, and collect conflict of interest disclosures with ease
Build a resilient, adaptive compliance program with controls to ensure you manage your risk and break down silos
Higher education institutions have a unique responsibility to protect their students, faculty and the community at large, with compliance woven into every aspect of campus life. Let’s unpack the key challenges:
Streamline operations, protect your reputation and foster student success. Here’s a snapshot of the impact of compliance in higher ed:
Cyber attacks became the main concern in 2023 for the first time, overtaking enrollment and recruiting.
This is far more than the other educational level institutions
This represents an average of 2,507 attempts, which is the highest amount monitored among industries.
Unpacking higher education compliance challenges
From safeguarding sensitive data to making sure courses are accessible, higher education institutions face a diverse range of compliance hurdles.
Keeping pace with evolving compliance requirements
The dynamic landscape of federal, state and sometimes international regulations (like FERPA, Title IV and Title IX) creates ongoing challenges for your higher education institution.
Data security in a high-value target environment spans many operational areas
Your institution collects valuable data, making it a prime target for cyberattacks. Robust security measures are crucial for safeguarding student records, research, and financial information.
Creating an inclusive campus
Building a truly inclusive campus requires proactive measures to ensure accessibility, prevent discrimination and uphold legislative requirements.
Responsible financial stewardship
Your school must manage grants, student aid, and conflicts of interest ethically and responsibly to comply with funding regulations
Safeguarding the campus community
Universities and colleges have a duty of care. Addressing a wide array of risks, from health and safety to emergency preparedness, is key.
Learn more
Learn more
Learn more
Keep integrity at the heart of your higher ed institution
Encourage your students and faculty to speak up with safe reporting tools, and turn incident reports into guidance for safer campuses.
Empower a safer learning environment
Empower a safer learning environment and foster continuous improvement with efficient whistleblowing and incident reporting.
Make compliance training engaging and effective
Enhance compliance training effectiveness and engagement to cultivate a safer, more inclusive campus environment.
Streamline procedures to enhance the learning experience
Time spent searching for policies is time away from students. Give your campus community the information and tools they need right at their fingertips.
Encourage open communication and transparency
Promote a culture of ethics and integrity in higher education.
Meet compliance requirements with confidence
In higher education, non-compliance is often unintentional. Create a single source of truth for all compliance needs.
Uncover and manage risk for a safer learning environment
Proactive risk management is crucial in higher education.
Your people work tirelessly to create a school that attracts talented students and faculty. Protect that reputation and simplify higher education compliance with NAVEX One.
Educate and engage your people with online training that speaks in their language, to their experiences.
Learn more
Start up or scale a speak-up program in days, not months, with NAVEX One EthicsPoint Essentials.
Learn more
Prove you value what your people have to say with NAVEX One EthicsPoint whistleblowing and incident management software.
Learn more
Centrally manage your entire policy and procedure lifecycle.
Learn more
Make disclosures about potential conflicts simple to manage and monitor over time.
Learn more
Transform your ethical code into an accessible day-to-day reference.
Learn more
Easily identify third parties that share your vision and safeguard your most valuable partnerships with NAVEX One.
Learn more
Quick to launch, quick to deliver – NAVEX IRM out-of-the-box is your express route to mastering vendor risk management.
Learn more
And our commitment to supporting higher education doesn’t stop there. NAVEX partners with Husch Blackwell to provide a full range of legal services including comprehensive guidance for U.S. Department of Education and state regulatory requirements.
NAVEX offered a reporting system that matched our structure and gave each institution a separate reporting page, as well as the ability to track specific risks at each individual institution.
See their story
As an audit department we need to know what is happening at our institution. EthicsPoint helps us listen to the people who know most about what’s going on: Our Employees.
See their story
NAVEX IRM enables the university to gain a comprehensive view of their business and operations from a risk perspective – connecting individual risk disciplines and managing them in one centralized program.
See their story
This means following the laws and regulations that apply to schools, colleges and universities. It includes protecting student data, ensuring accessibility and preventing discrimination.
Non-compliance can lead to fines, loss of funding, damage to your reputation and even lawsuits. It can also lead to or cause operational disruption, data loss or personal data breaches that might have severe consequences on the performance and safety of students in your care.
It’s the process of ensuring a university follows all relevant rules and regulations. This includes federal, state and relevant international laws.
Regulating higher education is complex and involves multiple agencies in the U.S.:
The European Union sets directives that impact all EU member states and the European Economic Area (EEA), most notably the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which has significant implications for how universities collect and handle personal data.
The Council of Europe, a pan-European organization, also plays a key role in promoting shared values and educational standards across the EU. Key initiatives include:
While frameworks vary, key areas typically include:
This is the process of identifying, assessing and addressing potential risks to your institution and higher ed compliance. This includes everything from cybersecurity threats to campus safety issues, as well as understanding which of these risks are the most likely and the most dangerous.
Proactive risk management helps protect students, staff, and the reputation of your institution. It can also prevent costly disruptions and legal liabilities – which all take your budget and resources away from providing a safe, supportive and effective education to your students!
ERM stands for Enterprise Risk Management. It’s a comprehensive approach to managing risks across the entire institution, from financial to operational to strategic. ERM helps identify how different risks are interconnected and how they might affect your ability to achieve your goals as an institution.
Risk management focuses on specific risks, while ERM takes a broader view of how different risks interact and impact the institution’s overall goals to quantify and make decisions on what activities they commit to or avoid. ERM also aims to create a risk-aware culture as part of a larger framework, integrating risk considerations into strategic decision-making.
Protect your reputation and simplify higher education compliance with NAVEX One. Your institution is the result of tireless work – let’s safeguard it together.