Report: OSU needs VP for compliance
Published 4:34 am Friday, February 10, 2012
COLUMBUS (AP) — Consultants are recommending that Ohio State hire a vice president to oversee a new office and committee that would monitor ethics and rules compliance across the university system.
The suggestion presented in a report Thursday to the university’s board of trustees is a response to the school’s football memorabilia scandal in which players sold football memorabilia or traded them for tattoos.
The report also recommends the university ensure that employees are appropriately trained, develop a risk-assessment methodology and monitor risks. Key risks would be subject to consistent monitoring.
A code of ethics would be expanded university-wide and reviewed at least once every five years.
The review looked at rules compliance across the university, with an emphasis on athletics, research, student financial aid and the medical center.