Indiana University's policy on Programs Involving Children is here and there is also more information at the link that says Additional Guidance on the left: http://policies.iu.edu/policies/categories/administration-operations/public-safety-institutional-assurance/PS-01.shtml
We chose to address only programs that are directed at children 18 or under and exclude programs that are for regularly enrolled students at IU. We know that we will have a relatively small number of regularly enrolled students that are under 18, however, including all university classes and programming in the requirements would have been a huge increase in cost and coverage. We do have provisions for reporting abuse of minors in this policy and in our Sexual Misconduct policy, regardless of whether or not they are IU students. This is in compliance with statutory requirements. In addition, there are provisions in registration and other places where parents/guardians must sign for a university student that is under 18. Good luck and I'm always happy to discuss our experiences further. Jenny Jennifer U. Kincaid Chief Policy Officer Office of the Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs Indiana University Poplars 823 Bloomington, IN 47405 (812)856-1291 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pilar Hays Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 5:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [acupa-l] e-list posting In March of 2014, someone posed the following question, which happens to be the exact scenario I need answered now. The person's email is no longer active and I would like to pose the question again. Thank you. Hello All! I am working to develop policy for our enrolled minors. 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 addressing minors on campus generally, 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! Pilar Hays, Esq. Policy Coordinator Office of Academic Affairs ATTN: Please be aware that when you respond to an ACUPA-L e-mail, the reply will be distributed to the ENTIRE list of members. If you do NOT want to send an e-mail to everyone, please reply directly to the individual who initiated the query (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of their original e-mail). If you wish to remove yourself from the ACUPA e-mail list, please go to the following website and complete the form. We will remove you from the list within 24 hours, during normal business hours. http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html If you have questions about the ACUPA e-list, please contact Jamie Parris at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?subject=ACUPA%20e-list%20assistance> or 607-255-6837.
