Hi Everyone - I hope you all are warmer than I am wherever you are!!?? It is awful cold out today in RI!
A few weeks back I asked about Minors on Campus policies and you all shared what you had, which was greatly appreciated! As we began working toward further developing our policy questions have come up about whether or not to include enrolled minor students. We have excluded academic courses in our "programs/activities" definition for the development of standard operating procedures, keeping it limited to "camps and clinics;" however, there is concern about not including enrolled minors in the rest of the policy, such as the definition of a minor. Our main issue - we have full-time undergraduate students enrolled as young as 16 years old. Because of this we are hesitant to exclude them from the policy but some of the minimum conduct requirements we had hoped to include in the policy (i.e. no one-on-one contact) would hinder our faculty and staff from effectively doing their job when dealing with an enrolled minor student; we are thinking in terms of areas such as student conduct and residential life, and times when Faculty members meet with a minor student about their coursework. Are we overthinking this? I would love some guidance on how you have chosen to handle minors enrolled as full-time students at your institutions. Do you require areas such as student conduct and residential life to put procedures and conduct requirements in place (internally) since these are areas where a staff member may meet with an enrolled minor student one-on-one as a normal course of business? I have not been able to find any guidance on this in all my research. Most of what I have read suggests these types of things for camps and/or clinics that involve non-matriculating minors. Your insight (and any documents you may have) would be much appreciated! Best, Jayne Jayne M. Del Sesto '05, '10 MBA Compliance, Internal Audit & Risk Management Johnson & Wales University Phone: (401) 598-2183 fax: (401) 598-2171 www.jwu.edu<http://www.jwu.edu/> | www.jwu.edu/compliance/<http://www.jwu.edu/compliance/> Confidentiality Notice: This email is confidential and is intended for the recipient(s) only. Do not forward this without permission. Use for unintended purposes is prohibited. Thank you for your compliance.
