行为准则

适用范围及适用性

The code of conduct applies to all Office of 金融援助 and 奖学金 (“OFAS”) employees, 包括, but not limited to OFAS Loan Officers, acting pursuant to the duties and responsibilities of their positions with the College.

行为准则

1. OFAS员工不得 take actions or make any decisions in the course of their employment that are for the employees’ own personal benefit or that could reasonably be perceived as conflicting with the Employees’ obligations to carry out their duties in the best interests of the College and the students they serve. Information provided by OFAS employees in the course of their duties will be accurate and unbiased and will not be influenced by actual or potential personal gain.
2. OFAS员工不得 奖 any financial aid or scholarships to themselves, 他们的家人, or any persons with whom they have or have had a 关闭 personal relationship.
3. OFAS不得创建, 分发, or participate in a preferred lender list, and OFAS employees are not permitted to recommend particular 银行, even when asked to do so by prospective student borrowers. OFAS will 过程 a student’s request for a private loan without prejudice and solely for the benefit of the student requesting the loan. Student borrowers shall initiate the approval 过程 with the banking institutions of their choice and are never auto-assigned or directed to any particular lender by OFAS.
4. OFAS不会否认, 阻碍, or unnecessarily delay 奖ing or disbursing any loan based solely on a student’s chosen lender. OFAS员工将, to the best of their abilities, 过程, 奖, and 分发 all private loan requests equally and without regard to a student borrower’s choice of a lender or banking institution.
5. OFAS员工不得, in connection with their employment with the College, accept any gratuity or other consideration that exceeds a de minimus or negligible value, 包括 but not limited to cash, 礼物, 餐, 旅行, 支持, or other personal benefits, from any of the following:
   
   1. Any 银行, banks, or other 金融机构;
   2. Any financial aid applicants, 他们的家人 or friends, or anyone acting on their behalf;
   3. Any entities doing business with or seeking to do business with the College.

强制性信息披露

1. 家庭关系
   
   1. A “Familial Relationship” is defined as a connection or association between one or more persons based on their consanguinity (i.e. “blood relatives”), legal familial affinity (e.g., 配偶, “亲家,"家庭伙伴", legal guardians or wards; foster children, 父母, and siblings; step- or adoptive children, 父母, and siblings); or other particularly 关闭 personal relationship (e.g.，男朋友，女朋友).
   2. OFAS employees and College employees with other Title IV 过程ing departments 包括 but not limited to, 招生, 登记, 学生账户, and finance; must dis关闭 to the Executive Administrator of Title IV programs their known 家庭关系 with financial aid applicants, student borrowers; or banks, 银行, 金融机构, and any business entities doing business with or seeking to do business with the College. Knowingly failing to report 家庭关系 is a violation of College Policy, 以及34 CFR 668.15(f)(3), and may result in disciplinary action up to and 包括 immediate termination.

Remaining in “Good Standing”

根据联邦法规, all OFAS employees with access to financial aid systems must, as a condition of their employment, be in “good standing” with the 教育部 at all times. OFAS employees may lose their “good standing” status and become ineligible for continued employment in their positions if they

1. Default on a student loan,
2. Have a Pell Grant overpayment, or
3. Are charged with or convicted of financial aid fraud or other illegal activity related to fraud.

向美国报告.S. 教育部

The College’s executive administrator of Title IV programs will report to the U.S. 教育部 any changes or additions to College locations or changes of control under which a College employee acquires the ability to substantially affect the actions of the College.